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Somehow, I both believe that everything is political *and* that beauty has the ability to elude description, evaluation and quantification, and I& #39;m not at all sure that those two statements even contradict each other. https://twitter.com/AldousAsterion/status/1299354947478106113">https://twitter.com/AldousAst...
And there& #39;s danger in focusing excusively on either side. Ignore the political and you risk missing real harm that& #39;s being done. Ignore the aesthetic and you risk turning art into something flat and dead, useful only for signifying membership in a particular subculture.
The latter is closely related to what I like to call "respectability aesthetics." I& #39;m just absolutely deathly bored of the particular Very Online subculture whose only tool for judging art is a good-representation checklist.
In my mind the liberatory potential of queer art lies in the intersection between its (political) potential for envisioning a better way of living and its (aesthetic) potential for disrupting simplistic categories and narratives.
I keep thinking about this thread. This guy is way overgeneralizing, but I& #39;ve seen plenty of leftist art that fits this description, and even more leftist art criticism that *demands* art fit this description. https://twitter.com/PYeerk/status/1299366825512316928">https://twitter.com/PYeerk/st...
Confrontational messages are great. Telling your audience a thing they already know isn& #39;t confrontational, though.
I would love to disrupt conservatives& #39; worldview, but they aren& #39;t listening to my music! Well, except maybe when the Detroit Symphony did "Liebeslied." (The concert was sponsored by an oil company. The audience dutifully clapped for them when this was announced.)
Given my actual audience, maybe the most disruptive thing I could perform would be an unfinished monologue I wrote in 2017 and never showed anyone. It stingingly cynical about the way both liberals and leftists were talking about how to respond to Trump.
But I don& #39;t want to have a fight. I just want to make something that turns things sideways.
