The Saunterer likes the idea that some art should take risks, but refuses to defend Orlan’s insistence that all art must take risks. Though her art takes risks by portraying perversions, she doesn’t harm animals, which is OK by us. Give her a listen before giving her a look:
Art that interests me has much in common with - belongs to - resistance. It must challenge our preconceptions, disrupt our thoughts; it is outside the norms, outside the law, against bourgeois order; it is not there to cradle us, to reinforce our comfort, to serve up again what we already know. It must take risks; at the risk of not being immediately accepted or acceptable. It is deviant, and in itself a social project. Art can, art must change the world, it is its only justification.
(Quoted from In Her Own Image: Women’s Self-Representation in Twentieth-Century Art, by Danielle Knafo. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.)
Must art change the world? Societies are caught in sweeping change. Shouldn’t most of art preserve time-honored values? What do you think?
For a brief biography of Orlan, and to see her working methods, click here. For images of and relating Orlan, click here. For a brief biography of Danielle Knafo, click here.
Art that interests me has much in common with - belongs to - resistance. It must challenge our preconceptions, disrupt our thoughts; it is outside the norms, outside the law, against bourgeois order; it is not there to cradle us, to reinforce our comfort, to serve up again what we already know. It must take risks; at the risk of not being immediately accepted or acceptable. It is deviant, and in itself a social project. Art can, art must change the world, it is its only justification.
(Quoted from In Her Own Image: Women’s Self-Representation in Twentieth-Century Art, by Danielle Knafo. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.)
Must art change the world? Societies are caught in sweeping change. Shouldn’t most of art preserve time-honored values? What do you think?
For a brief biography of Orlan, and to see her working methods, click here. For images of and relating Orlan, click here. For a brief biography of Danielle Knafo, click here.
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