Results tagged “Stonal MInd Funk Boogie” from Artists At War Blog

So, I had a wonderful experience today in publicly performing politics and idealism.
As some of you may know, I'm on the board of my kid's pre-school, a historically progressive, cross-class/cross-race place up in the hills of EP.

Because of continued budget cuts by the city and state, the school has to do fund-raising to support its mission- keeping in economic diversity (ie. fundraising makes up the gap that poor people can't make in payment). So as a boardmember, I have to speak about a few things- donating labor, thanking x person and y person.

But seeing the need for some dynamic energy, I start off with a story that leads into why Christina and I are at the school. I start going in to the progressive and radical history of the school and why what this means today- its not like I was doing any firebrand speech (the director of the school kind of offhandedly explained why we are called the People's playgroup, what a damn treat to be a part of such a wonderful linguistic time-warp), its just that it was about ideals and values. And I'm thinking, damn, so I guess this room full of near strangers is kind of in agreement with what we are hear for, social justice and non-violence.

To be a part of the verbal actualization of the community was pretty damn cool.

I was watching this movie about samurais who were werewolves too.
When I thought of the year 1962.
That was one year before JFK was assassinated. Hashassinated.
Five years before Sol Lewitt stated:

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. - Sol Lewitt "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Artforum, June 1967.

Then I thought, one can never brand an artwork "conceptual" unless one is certain that the artwork was made entirely by anyone but the artist who "conceptualized" it.

Peace Out,

Chazmatazz., MD.