the conceptual artist is the last resort: there is no way, at present to fully realize the idea, the concept - but the idea itself, is already art, and there can be ways to share it, hint at it, no way how minuscule. in the worst case the effect is also so minuscule that it will be bypassed by people's expectations. but still, even then, the difference has been made.
today I reviewed "popERA" from 2000 which began my opening to theater and performance art and political and social change. the tactic of the vignettes put to pieces of music, often using minimal means at times, resonates with the protests by Jessica Denson and the #NowMarch #14Now today and until January 6th https://nowmarch.org
* Ms Denson by her looks and character and by her work and achievements would be a perfect dancer for "Jezebel" based on the song by Brian Eno and David Byrne : On a catwalk, various kinds of extremely beautiful young, feminizable people keep walking up and down, posing, then walking back, as in a fashion show, all wearing variations of what is also projected on the walls all over, visual renditions of two works Miklós Váci's, the sentence "but can't you see how much I love you" in Braille, ...
in the same way, Ms Denson is pleading with her fellow-country people, protesting against the illegal installation of the Trump (or as Timothy Snyder quipped in best Queen-Fashion, the Mump) regime, despite the 14th Amendment to the US constitution, section 3 which states clearly that no one shall be admitted to office who, having sworn and oath to the constitution then engaged in insurrection against it.
of course Black people in the same US of A can claim from the beginning that when did White Americans and their Latin/Hispanic, Indian- and other adjacent populations ever get their legal rights, and then the First Nations on Turtle Island and the treaties made with them. However all of the above will bode even worse, also for these people, because the regime of Trump will not only destabilize the US of A and all in its grip, but also tip the balance in favor of the facist heirs of feudal EurAsia, with no other power left to balance Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Xi, Modi, Kim, etc. #catastrophictippingpoint
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