> Most of the images are found footage, taken from YouTube. Their emotional impact comes from the way Jafa has put them together, shifting and editing and choreographing to create a flow of deeply resonant juxtapositions...
As I read the article, I couldn’t help but to think what a beautiful reason for tools like youtube-dl to exist.
I haven’t found an official video source, only this bootleg copy:
Arthur Jafa: “Love is the Message, the Message is Death”
Former WASP magazines and cultural venues “discover” black artists after all this years only because they’re black, nothing about their art, nothing about their inner feelings and everything that might be artist/related that it’s not in some way or another related to said artists’ “blackness”. It’s Get Out (the movie) taken to the next level.
WASP privilege is fading. It's either melt into humanity or lift the future cultural leaders into heaven. They are doing the latter.
The problem with lifting future leaders is they are not ready yet. They need humanity to grow to a point where the next cultural force has something to say.
"The filmmaker left an art world he found too white" - fuck that guy. Didn't read on after that. Who gives a shit about the opinions of racists. Odds that his "art" is not racist are zero.
Can we talk more about this? I think of hacker news as a place to discuss differing opinions and this response seems like something I'd like to understand better.
When does opting out of a cultural scene == racism?
It's still racist. I personally even think racism should be legal - in general, people having wrong opinions should be legal. Doesn't mean I have to like them.
You are not a victim if you are the only non-white person in a room or the only woman at a conference. It's absurd to make a connection to "victim blaming" here.
Noticing such quotas as such is of course not racist or sexist. Acting because of them is. Feeling like a victim because you are the only "X" in the room is also racist or sexist (depending on context).
And are you saying his ONLY reason for "leaving the art scene" was because everybody else had white skin color? Not even because of their behavior? How is that not racist? And if he left because of the behavior, and describes it as being "white", it is also racist. There is no way to interpret his statement as not being racist.
As for "leaving the art scene", I bet he doesn't reject "white money" and 99% of his funding is from white people. In the article it is also stated that "European museums" bought his art.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 59.3 ms ] threadAs I read the article, I couldn’t help but to think what a beautiful reason for tools like youtube-dl to exist.
I haven’t found an official video source, only this bootleg copy:
Arthur Jafa: “Love is the Message, the Message is Death”
https://youtu.be/lKWmx0JNmqY
The problem with lifting future leaders is they are not ready yet. They need humanity to grow to a point where the next cultural force has something to say.
Yes.
yaakov34 explains it well.
You might as well say that it's sexist to _notice_ that the tech conference is all dudes.
It's the same victim-blaming absurdity.
Noticing such quotas as such is of course not racist or sexist. Acting because of them is. Feeling like a victim because you are the only "X" in the room is also racist or sexist (depending on context).
And are you saying his ONLY reason for "leaving the art scene" was because everybody else had white skin color? Not even because of their behavior? How is that not racist? And if he left because of the behavior, and describes it as being "white", it is also racist. There is no way to interpret his statement as not being racist.
As for "leaving the art scene", I bet he doesn't reject "white money" and 99% of his funding is from white people. In the article it is also stated that "European museums" bought his art.
Still accusing the victims of racism, boring. And this drivel is a symptom your failure to understand racism at all, and why you're exhibiting racism.
Again, feeling like a victim because of skin color or sex of people surrounding you is obviously racist or sexist, respectively.
It was the first and only time I have ever been reduced to complete sobbing in public by a piece of art.