Viaduct Arts
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Art can help carry us up and over.
#artmatters #artillery
#artmatters #artillery
If you’re going to make art for the next 4 years it should be dangerous.
December 5, 2024 at 5:05 AM
“Artists are vessels for truth, which can be neither restrained nor abated. This is an instinct we creatives share, and the more it is repressed, the more we will produce against ignorance and suppression.”
‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term
Figures in the art world including Amy Sherald and Marilyn Minter share their concerns ahead of Trump’s return
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:18 AM
“Artists are vessels for truth, which can be neither restrained nor abated. This is an instinct we creatives share, and the more it is repressed, the more we will produce against ignorance and suppression.”
School strike for climate rally, Adelaide, Australia, March 2019. Photo by Bill Doyle.
December 3, 2024 at 9:33 AM
School strike for climate rally, Adelaide, Australia, March 2019. Photo by Bill Doyle.
December 3, 2024 at 8:15 AM
From a series of imaginary book titles, by artist Johan Deckmann: www.coolhunting.com/culture/joha...
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
From a series of imaginary book titles, by artist Johan Deckmann: www.coolhunting.com/culture/joha...
I just saw Wicked and, wow, it is political and so suited to our moment. It’s about efforts to unite a people by oppressing a particular group, rewriting history for the powerful, authoritarianism, lies told to the people, compliance, and the courage to step away to challenge the powers that be.
November 25, 2024 at 8:32 PM
“Through art, we send a message to the world that we are still alive, and as long as we are still breathing we can shine a light on everything that is happening here.”
#gaza
#gaza
Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’
Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwide
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:31 PM
“Through art, we send a message to the world that we are still alive, and as long as we are still breathing we can shine a light on everything that is happening here.”
#gaza
#gaza
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"The Hidden Pool - an etching by artist and printmaker, Flora Mclachlan - whose work is inspired by myth, ancient landscapes, and the enchantment of the natural world"
"The Hidden Pool - an etching by artist and printmaker, Flora Mclachlan - whose work is inspired by myth, ancient landscapes, and the enchantment of the natural world"
November 25, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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"The Hidden Pool - an etching by artist and printmaker, Flora Mclachlan - whose work is inspired by myth, ancient landscapes, and the enchantment of the natural world"
"The Hidden Pool - an etching by artist and printmaker, Flora Mclachlan - whose work is inspired by myth, ancient landscapes, and the enchantment of the natural world"
"Rarely do games move me to tears, but this tale of a woman rearing her cub in a world plagued by demons had a deep emotional effect"
Neva review – sublime portrait of a warrior and her wolf in a dying world
Rarely do games move me to tears, but this tale of a woman rearing her wolf cub in a world plagued by demons had a deep emotional effect
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:20 PM
"Rarely do games move me to tears, but this tale of a woman rearing her cub in a world plagued by demons had a deep emotional effect"
Fascinating and relevant weekend read. A somewhat obscure music subgenre associated with fascists in the US and Europe is being reclaimed by the left, who look back at the same pre-modern traditions with very different interpretations and inspirations.
#culturewar #antifascism #music #neofolk
#culturewar #antifascism #music #neofolk
Tradition and Resistance: Reclaiming Neofolk for Antifascism
by Shane Burley. Nøkken And The Grim embody just about every feature of a dark music subculture that makes many uncomfortable. Paganism, romanticism, anti-modernity, deep ecology—a miasma of radical e...
proteanmag.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Fascinating and relevant weekend read. A somewhat obscure music subgenre associated with fascists in the US and Europe is being reclaimed by the left, who look back at the same pre-modern traditions with very different interpretations and inspirations.
#culturewar #antifascism #music #neofolk
#culturewar #antifascism #music #neofolk
“The world she created was in part her artistic response as war darkened life in Finland - an antidote to despair and thugs on the march.
Let the Moomins Revolution begin - carried forward by artists, writers, poets, dreamers, nonconformists, and humanists everywhere."
#tovejansson
Let the Moomins Revolution begin - carried forward by artists, writers, poets, dreamers, nonconformists, and humanists everywhere."
#tovejansson
Bring on the Moomins Revolution
Maybe becoming Moominists will save us
medium.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:38 PM
“The world she created was in part her artistic response as war darkened life in Finland - an antidote to despair and thugs on the march.
Let the Moomins Revolution begin - carried forward by artists, writers, poets, dreamers, nonconformists, and humanists everywhere."
#tovejansson
Let the Moomins Revolution begin - carried forward by artists, writers, poets, dreamers, nonconformists, and humanists everywhere."
#tovejansson
There may be those that want to take away #womensrights. But they have to go through Stevie Nicks.
Stevie Nicks - The Lighthouse (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Stevie Nicks
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 12:24 PM
There may be those that want to take away #womensrights. But they have to go through Stevie Nicks.
"These are perilous and urgent times. This is not the hour to sit around moaning about the condition of the world […] nor is it the moment to fruitlessly wait for inspiration to find us."
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #274 - My muses have left me and I have lost all motivation to create as a film and music maker. Have you ever felt alien to yourself and your identity as an art...
Dear Tam and Dan, What makes our particular job so exceptional that it requires inspiration or a muse to do it? We are artists and we...
www.theredhandfiles.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:56 PM
"These are perilous and urgent times. This is not the hour to sit around moaning about the condition of the world […] nor is it the moment to fruitlessly wait for inspiration to find us."
Composer/sound artist Mary Edwards:
"We're all going to be affected by the same outcome. When I went up to Svalbard, I went with the intention of capturing the beauty - and the terror - of the reality of these changes and how they can be fascinating to listen to, but also devastating.” #climate
"We're all going to be affected by the same outcome. When I went up to Svalbard, I went with the intention of capturing the beauty - and the terror - of the reality of these changes and how they can be fascinating to listen to, but also devastating.” #climate
e180 mary edwards - capturing the beauty and terror of reality | conscient podcast
www.conscient.ca
November 21, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Composer/sound artist Mary Edwards:
"We're all going to be affected by the same outcome. When I went up to Svalbard, I went with the intention of capturing the beauty - and the terror - of the reality of these changes and how they can be fascinating to listen to, but also devastating.” #climate
"We're all going to be affected by the same outcome. When I went up to Svalbard, I went with the intention of capturing the beauty - and the terror - of the reality of these changes and how they can be fascinating to listen to, but also devastating.” #climate
This seems like eons ago now. I was struck by this lovely quote from the NYT comments:
"My God, look what art can do for us and our broken, raw and angry country, what healing it can perform, how it can create common ground, unite and even lead us, if we will just hold still and allow it in."
"My God, look what art can do for us and our broken, raw and angry country, what healing it can perform, how it can create common ground, unite and even lead us, if we will just hold still and allow it in."
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs Gave America a Rare Gift: Harmony
Culture can too often drive us apart. At the Grammys on Sunday, two artists delivered something different.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
This seems like eons ago now. I was struck by this lovely quote from the NYT comments:
"My God, look what art can do for us and our broken, raw and angry country, what healing it can perform, how it can create common ground, unite and even lead us, if we will just hold still and allow it in."
"My God, look what art can do for us and our broken, raw and angry country, what healing it can perform, how it can create common ground, unite and even lead us, if we will just hold still and allow it in."
“From the first notes […] the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world’s indifference."
symbiont, by Jake Blount, Mali Obomsawin
11 track album
jakeblountmusic.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
“From the first notes […] the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world’s indifference."
Teju Cole's refresher on the play Rhinoceros. From Trump 1.0, but even more relevant now.
"Ionesco wanted to know why so many people give in to these poisonous ideologies. How could so many get it so wrong? The play, an absurd farce, was one way he grappled with this problem."
"Ionesco wanted to know why so many people give in to these poisonous ideologies. How could so many get it so wrong? The play, an absurd farce, was one way he grappled with this problem."
A Time for Refusal (Published 2016)
On the necessity of resisting the new normal.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Teju Cole's refresher on the play Rhinoceros. From Trump 1.0, but even more relevant now.
"Ionesco wanted to know why so many people give in to these poisonous ideologies. How could so many get it so wrong? The play, an absurd farce, was one way he grappled with this problem."
"Ionesco wanted to know why so many people give in to these poisonous ideologies. How could so many get it so wrong? The play, an absurd farce, was one way he grappled with this problem."
November 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
“A second viewing of Werckmeister Harmonies reveals to me something in it more concrete about fascism and the sleep of reason, about the longing to submit to power which lurks just below the surface, to which humanity might so easily surrender, as if in a somnambulist trance.”
Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny
Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM
“A second viewing of Werckmeister Harmonies reveals to me something in it more concrete about fascism and the sleep of reason, about the longing to submit to power which lurks just below the surface, to which humanity might so easily surrender, as if in a somnambulist trance.”
“[The Last Resort] was designed to be a place of relaxation for Black creatives to come rest, reflect and fellowship with like-minded individuals. There is no expectation [for the artists] to create.”
Artist Derrick Adams Has Opened The Doors For Black Creatives To Experience Baltimore | Essence
Derrick Adams welcomed the first guests to a dream realized: The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a space for Black creatives to reflect and fellowship.
www.essence.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM
“[The Last Resort] was designed to be a place of relaxation for Black creatives to come rest, reflect and fellowship with like-minded individuals. There is no expectation [for the artists] to create.”
Well that’s revealing, 6 out of 8. Guess times are never ripe for art. If you think about it, most art has been made under terrible circumstances.
November 18, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Well that’s revealing, 6 out of 8. Guess times are never ripe for art. If you think about it, most art has been made under terrible circumstances.
The UK had a similar slide toward fascism in the 70s. The Clash and others did something about it.
White Riot (2019) | Trailer | The Clash | Steel Pulse | Tom Robinson | Poly Styrene | Sham 69
YouTube video by Film Movement
youtu.be
November 18, 2024 at 9:57 AM
The UK had a similar slide toward fascism in the 70s. The Clash and others did something about it.
"It is now necessary to revise the movement to fight 'a frightening expansion of the far-right across Europe’.”
Love Music Hate Racism: why bands are once again rocking against racism
The organisation Love Music Hate Racism is set to relaunch across the country including Coventry.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:56 AM
"It is now necessary to revise the movement to fight 'a frightening expansion of the far-right across Europe’.”