Re: Art after the Change

cosmicbdog [no longer around] said Aug 12, 2007, 2:59 AM:
 

Great topic Chrysalis!! I like what Yvette had to say and think that yes, artists will be those who have the minds to solve the problems of our future. But I'm thinking even beyond that, imagining that we are so successful as to completely rid ourselves of fear in the world. Complete overcoming of poverty and repression.


Perhaps in this world, there would be less pressure to achieve an objective, but more to explore and maybe deepen our discovery of ourselves and each other.

I think that in time, our lives will then become art… not separate from what we do for living. The artist in all of us walking our creating our lives hoping for the ultimate expression to come through.

I feel we should encourage artists to give more energy to work that is timeless, assuming we are there… or artists who are about possibility. Assuming we are fearless. We could be creating art about all the things wrong with the world forever and ever, but that could potentially lock us into the past fears and attachments.

Do we listen to musicians who are stuck, moping about their situation or those who are offering an insight of a new possibility? I'll tell ya what… I know a quick way to get a girl considering whats wrong with the relationships in your life and thats to play a couple albums of alanis morrisette… before long, she'll be questioning!!! 

It seems very hard for me today to go out there and buy an album that is not fluffy zen music which is not impersonal and about helping the listener out. In my opinion, in this day and age, too many artists are making it personal…celebrities coming out saying “oh this is who I really am” but how on earth does that make a difference? Why are we looking at them in the first place, because they pretend to be in the position of icons we admire?

How is it possible for us to move forward when we are looking at art which justifies our past deluded binding agreements? Why do we spend time watching movies that are false impressions of the past? Why do we spend time learning even?

This is an out there idea, but could most art that exist today, be pretty irrelevant to the new world of tomorrow? Simply because we've yet to really live in a time where people have not been repressed, how is it possible to create art that resonates freedom and not just something that makes you have an empathy for the artist, or inspiration for the developer or whatever the current paradigm is? 

I'm not saying the freedom art doesn't exist… or there's not amazing art that makes us compassionate… but i think most art is actually compassion inspired… its either 'get compassionate about this' or 'get compassionate about me'.

I think most people have self agenda running throughout their blood. So artists may find it hard to create art that truly serves the good of mankind… those who do, manage to create art that stands the tests of time. Michaelangelo's work… that other guy who has a book and movie out on him. They made art that was actually benefical to mankind… truly selfless.

Art of the future in my opinion encourages freedom. For artists who want to help others in the world, I imagine them to create emotional experiences for others that helps them to see freedom and abundance where it is hard to see.

For example, we see this happening with Grafitti… what is often an ugly thing in some places where it has been embraced, the artists are not creating in fear and they are allowed to create truly beautiful artwork on ugly brick walls and fences and it inspires people on the bus. I think this is a great example of how art is becoming a bigger collaboration… council people who change the laws… business owners who own the walls… street kids who have no money getting payed for their skills… the millions of people who see real art instead of tags. Its the kinda thing that makes more people feel good about themself. Why do graffiti heads do tags? They want to be recognised…. interesting how they don't do that obsessively once they get recognised. 

I'd say a lot of our artwork will move towards beautifying the ugliness we've created. What are we gonna do with all the highrises? Maybe there'll be an organisation that works on supporting a city vine system that has really awesome air cleaning properties? Part of the artwork of filling a city with greenery again is that everybody experiences cleaner air. Greener energy. More heart chakra. I imagine in a free world unbound by fear there will be many more things like this that will come about… we're truly in for an interesting ride! What on earth would you create if you could create anything?