Brett Olson
@brettlsn
Brett Olson
@brettlsn
THE ARTIST AND THE NEUROTIC
The relation between the artist and the neurotic, often considered mysterious, is entirely understandable from the viewpoint presented here. Both artist and neurotic speak and live from the subconscious and unconscious depths of their society. The artist does this posi-tively, communicating what he experiences to his
... See moresolipsistic performances and, earlier in the 1960s, happenings, which were in effect Dada-Surrealist assemblages occurring in real time with strong overtones of absurdist theatre.
We still have political art, but we have no effective political art. An artist must be famous to be heard, but as he acquires fame, so his
"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"
Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"
(Via Matt Lerner)
the central myth of the traditional avant-garde, that by changing the order of language, art could reform the order of experience and so alter the conditions of social life, had not yet collapsed