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Unsolicited Advice

Posted by jimini - 04/01/10 at 09:01 pm

The Platform for (Un)Solicited Research and Advice is a project attached to the Manifesta Biennial which I’m involved with through the Dutch Art Institute. Each month there’s a specific aspect related to biennials which is being addressed. Last month, relating to the question of personal attitude as an artist toward the biennial phenomenon, I made this sketch…

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John Berger enunciates the possibility for art to run
“like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life's brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice at last. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts and honour.”

As an artist, I feel the need to offer resistance to ‘life’s brutalities’, and although ‘activist art’ is not a new phenomenon, there is something about the times we are living through whereby I feel that a certain urgency has made the combination art and activism more necessary.

Unsolicited Advice

JIMINI HIGNETT

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