Goal

A focus on ART as

an alternative approachWHAT?

=> assist putting the interaction between

terrorismcurrent climate of fear

=> in a proper perspective.

WHY?

What does a focus on art add to the perspective?

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It will assist in showing that a climate of fear is:

Beyond one kind of “terrorism”

Related to larger Complexity / ConvolutedBeyond one religionBeyond one era

Is related to a perception in which favorable “conditions” are perceived to be at risk. The perceived risk is a reduction of integrities of the same “conditions”.

Conditions: socio-economic, cultural, political, aesthetics, values, etc.

• in relation to art, and intertwined with a climate of fear, terrorism can be seen in

3 ways:

Terrorism….

1.

2.

3.

1.

2.

Integrities ~ fear ~ Terror(ism) ~ Art(ists)

Conditions:

Similar to “terrorism”

Potential motives:

\ \ \--> Political integrity.

\ -->Socio-economic \ integrity.

1. Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)

Increase homeland security.Reduce protest against official policy.Unwillingness / Incompetence

Increase streamlining.

Increase control information flow.

Obsessive-compulsive behavior. (Fear & frustration)

(e.g. market, social developments, perceptions, etc.)

(e.g. distinguish a threat from a non-threat)

\ -->psychological integrity.

• Bikes Against Bush Joshua Kinberg (2004)

1.

http://www.bikesagainstbush.com/blog/

Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)

• Artist accused of being a bioterrorist. (2004)

• Steve Kurtz Associate Professor Department of Art State University of New York’s University at Buffalo.

• member Critical Art Ensemble.

• Makes art which addresses the politics of biotechnology

2.

Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)

Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).

Potential motives:\ -->e.g. Religious

integrity

Infringement on social property:e.g. Morals, Memes, Values, Ethnicity, Religion, Stereotypes, Role models, Heroes, Stories, Identity, Gender, Etc.

Unwillingness / incompetence (e.g. to distinguish assault from dialogue or coping mechanisms).

Larger sense of insecure environment.Larger context of bullying.

Obsessive-compulsive behavior. (Fear & frustration).

\ -->e.g. Social \ integrity

\ -->e.g. Psychological integrity

• Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa (February 14, 1989)

• (Again Tue. 14 Feb 2006 & June 2007)

1.

Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).

Alexander Kosolapov’s My Blood (2001)

2.

Disfigured in Russia

Russian lawsuits blasphemous subject matter

Russian Orthodox Churchreplaced Communist as moral authority & censor in ideological matters.

Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).

3.

Nairobi, Kenya - against Danish cartoons in Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten-Photo by Sayyid Azim, AP (2006/02/10)

(example can be seen as CONVOLUTED)

Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)

Artist accused of being terrorist.

Freedom to accuse perceived as terrifying.

&

Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).

Mutual Hostility

Terrorism as SubjectTerror(ism), war (on terror), peace

as themes for songs and other forms of expression

fear, frustration, powerlessness and angerClimate or motives:

Terrorism as Subject

1.Gonzalo Frasca & Newsgaming:

“September 12th; A Toy World” -simulation.

Explores aspects of “the war on terror”.

• http://www.peace-not-war.org/index.html

2.a.

Terrorism as Subject

• http://www.peace-not-war.org/index.html

• The Rub: George Bush Is An Islamic Fundamentalist (song)

2.b.

Terrorism as Subject

“Das grösste Kunstwerk, das es je gegeben

hat"

9.11 =

as metaphor for the Sublime

1.

Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorism as art

A Quote from Stockhausen. Also quoted in Virilio, P., Turner C (trans.). (2002). Ground Zero. Londres: Verso. p. 45

• Art Terrorism• Banksy: Early

Man Goes to Market.

• Smuggled into the British Museum in Gallery 49

2.

Terror(ism) as metaphor art terrorism

• Luigi Russolo, Futurist.3.

Intonarumori.

Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorizing art - art as “war against terror”

Metaphor for the noise of the modern age.

Manifesto: L'arte dei rumori (1913)

“The Futurists were quasi-terrorists who embraced war, speed, technology as the artistic reality of the 20th century.”

“Noise terrorist”“Liberation from

aesthetic terror”

• Heiner Müller,

Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorizing art - art as “war against terror”

appropriationist Playwright.

Concerned with the “terrorism of fashion and the bourgeois cult of the absolutely new” (Kalb,1998, p.1).

4.

Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorizing art - artist terrorized

• George Antheil5.

Ballet Mécanique (1927)•effect 20th century mechanization

"Bad Boy of Music”

The composer who carried a gun to concerts

What did this focus on art add to the perspective?

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•

It will assist in showing that a climate of fear is:

Beyond one kind of “terrorism”

Related to larger Complexity / ConvolutedBeyond one religionBeyond one era

Is related to a perception in which favorable “conditions” are perceived to be at risk. The perceived risk is a reduction of integrities of the same “conditions”.

Conditions: socio-economic, cultural, political, aesthetics, values, etc.