And pussiriotization of the whole country

There are such stories with which you absolutely do not want to deal with. For example, everything related to contemporary art. Well, everyone in their own way understands him that it is better not to speak with outsiders about him. And if in this regard, it comes to civic activity, and at all. Because everyone has their own cockroaches, and this topic itself is intended for their own - private cockroaches - the most free self -expression. What, in fact, is the pathos of the moment.

Theoretical introduction

I'll start with my cockroaches. For example, we can say that if art is necessary for something, so for the production of new meanings, and culture is required to keep them in a connected form and ensure the ability to produce the following. This statement can be obtained that this point of view is conservative, because the innovation is now no longer ice. The artist is not at all obligated to produce new meanings, but can take everything in a row and introduce it into public contexts.

This will be a reasonable objection, which can be responded with some reasonable clarification and gradually reach, if not to consensus, then to some thing that the parties perceive fundamentally differently. Usually, this fact suits both sides, because by art they mean about one thing, but simply prefer its different projections. But if one party draws attention to the option that is not that for the other, but sincerely cannot be taken into account, then it usually turns out that it is already about how art is perceived among the masses that are not quite inclined to it. What does Pussy Riot have to do with art? But, of course, society is more important - there is a lot of it and it must be tolerant with it. Ok, we think that this is an art and think about them.

But tolerance should work in the other direction, allowing me not to love them - they are very exalted (this is, as it were, the artistic side) and very much under Femen (from the point of view of the public context). At the same time, I agree that the combination of screeching and feminism produces a public effect. I agree that the interpretations of their actions give rise to the civil activity of all those who also felt like a participant in the process. Only as an act of art, then it is necessary to consider not the action itself, but the entire train about it.

Moreover, what is considered an action in XXS did not happen there: it began earlier, and took shape later. What exactly was in - XXS does not know the public, because this is not a record of the action, but a clip. With the repetitions of episodes, shot in two places (church people say that the personnel, where they are with guitars, from Elokhovsky: from there, by the way, they simply brought out, the public and did not recognize). In XXS, they only made body movements, then pasted on a studio phonogram. What a "punk-graben". But in this type of sin there is no sin, just the format is different - the action itself was made not there, they wrote an episode there. It's not about claims in the option of law enforcement officers, but about where the case took place, and what was its meaning.

Because then he is already different. It is one thing - spontaneity, impulse and all that. Another thing is working with the video, then the Messiage should have the entire clip. Even a simple one, like a "war": Down with the cops and all. Perhaps the song itself was supposed to say everything about Putin, who is also down. But what kind of Messid after exactly the same posters are at rallies, and who else pays attention to the words. Well, the court, yes: what exactly is seen there in this story? Politics, but what is the policy in these dancing? Again, does the accusation mean an episode or a clip? And if the clip, then where does hooliganism in the XXS, especially since there was Elokhovsky?

Conclusion: a real action began later, in a media-public environment. Exactly what is happening about this since then, and produces an act of civilian excitement, which, if desired, can also be called art. Because art should excite, and this - since everything continues - it just excites. Pussy themselves have nothing to do with it, it is realized by the expectations of the public, which formed a request for feelings. The same socio -civil art occurs for other occasions - NTV, for example. But since everything was so successful on them, then let this art be pussiriotism ("Riot" in Google is 40 times more often than "Ryot", we already consider it a Russian word). Of course, the word "successfully" is poorly knitted with the judicial side of the case.

Historical experience

This is said so calmly, because it is included in the rules of the game. It has concomitant risks. For example, let the Viennese defensemen be. They, too, behaved not generally accepted, in comparison with them, Pussy - homemade ivy pussies. To illustrate Gunter Brus , the action is not public, but this is the 60s and little has been preserved there. There were also public ones, but in YouTube there is no find.

So everything was in order with the prison, in June 1968, the timber was put for six months “to humiliate the symbols of the state” (he humiliated the wrong time that on the clip, in the other), later he left Austria to avoid the second arrest. Otto Mul received a month of prison after the “Art and Revolution” campaign in 1968. After the public “Piss Action” in Munich, Mul was already running away from the German police. Herman Nitsh flare two weeks in 1965 after the festival "Psycho-Physical Naturalism." Of course, six months - not seven years, but this is already a matter of assessing local risks.

But then everything was equipped with them and it became good. NITSh, for example, has long been a national treasure, acts in general educational programs on Austrian television, and holds stocks in clean and bright halls surrounded by photographers and operators. Here is the fresh "Probe für die malaktion in saint françois d'Assise von olivier messiaens an der bayerischen staatsoper am 9.6.2011" - he is there with his back to the cell, a noble and majestic Aki Savaof.

But, in fact, they did not succeed because they served. They had meaning and, perhaps, it was they who tore the vein out of the dull state that came after the Second World War. In any case, they helped this. That's the difference: there these actions used, used, used the public, excitement their psyche in favor of the fresh art. With Pussy, on the contrary, here society uses them as a supply for its agitation, for which he is ready to consider them art. Why not-they are not bad (minus prison), there is a public respect, respect and the title of artists. But the relationship of the artist and the public is turned upside down, which is not good for artists, well, art. This, in fact, is the reason for writing this theoretically subjective text. But - the reason, not a reason. Without a reason, one could not pay attention to the reason.

Occasion

The reason was in the livestock of M.A. Gelman http://maratguelman.livejournal.com/2606478.html#comments , the part is quoted: “ They wrote that I will not be able to get silent because I would get into this story and wrote why I didn’t like the action and someone who did not like the action and someone I think that it happened to the radicals in a difficult situation.
... And it is clear that the claims to Pussi will very quickly become claims to the entire artistic environment. That is, if you look "who suffered from the action is the most" - then these are artists, curators and gallerists. Instead of writing about the beautiful exhibition of Resykl or about preparing for the Living Perm festival, I have to rub the Patriarch and the patriarch. But that's right. If the art environment has ceased to be the vanguard of society - maybe it is generally needed in FIG.
In short - radicals are needed - the main thing is that everyone does not become radicals . "

I want to develop the last remark, but - pessimistic. How is this not everyone will become radicals when the previous phrase " If the art environment has ceased to be the vanguard of society - maybe it is needed in FIG at all "? It turns out that art must be built exactly along the line of socio -political activity: it cannot be so that art - especially since it should be the vanguard of society - was not active. Direct investigation: everything that has right now has the right to be called art should not only excite, but excite in the civilian sense. This, of course, is good, because here it is, the definition of art here and now. In addition, the requirements for members of the artistic environment were specifically presented. Now it’s simple: who is not an avant -garde, he is not an artist.

Of course, Helmann had a replica and he is not responsible for the fact that it can be removed from it. But what conclusions are impossible in such historical moments. You never know what will catch on, and then, as usual, the word for the word and here it is - a network, civilian mass style. The founders can be assigned - for solidity - Misina and Shaburov, whose photograph of police officers in an embrace attracted public attention when they did not want to let Sotsart in the Paris exhibition, in 2007. The then Minister of Culture A. Sokolov even called it "pornography" and "shame of Russia." Yes, then these problems were excited at the level of the Ministry of Culture, and now everything has come directly to society.

Lyrical retreat

In general, the word "art" (especially if it is "modern") is so amazing that it is fucking. Indeed, even in music they have already figured out, even in literature and, it seems, even in poetry: there is such literature, but there is a loud, but there is still some. Some are engaged in their new meanings, others - sculpting Meestim for intelligent reading and a jury of bonuses, others are slapping their genres one piece per month. It is also clear with the music-here is a chanson, this is a chanson, there is some classic in the conservatory, and there are also club sounds, ringtones, soundtracks and some other avant-garde players, the presence of which will be found out if any of them is made by the soundtrack.

Everything is harmonious, there is an understanding of the differences in the meadow. No one will give a prize to the author of women's paper, although, probably, it will be - otherwise why in the world the National Bestseller Award? Well, some poets yes, they will rhyme their civil positions, which. Maybe, in fact, this is the trend? And this is late, but the sincere victory of the Soviet discourse? Say, earlier a certain number of new writers (write for life, for the intelligentsia) have already acted within the framework of socialist realism. But it looked either an artistic maneuver or personal inclinations. And now, it turns out, propaganda and agina plus the creation of typical images want to become a trend. Life, what to do.

But with "contemporary art" here and now it is not entirely true: it is not relaxed, it is considered whole by default, and everything that is not it is not art at all. That is why it is possible to reason whether it is an avant -garde or not. It is not perceived as a set of options, but art and that's it. Graters about him are not about what it happens and can be, but exclusively like this: this is an art, but so on - no. And it must be a) one and b) the avant -garde of society. Also, by the way, very one. At least in relation to art.

A little more practical theory

So, the production of new meanings is a bad habit of modern and postmodern (there new meanings were also generated, albeit other methods). Now a new stage in the artistic development of mankind, where not novelty is important, but a change of contexts. The meaning of the statement in the use of templates or anything in a new place.

Fans of puns can already feel like creators, but even in this embodiment it is not clear from what joy the obligation of political art and social activism arises here. They themselves do not grow from nowhere, this happens exactly when a socio-public, political and, as a result, a civil context is intentionally selected. This, of course, is an addition to the subject - but the artist, he is a member of society. It is in its own right, although this is exactly what is called literary or such program music. The artifact obeys the external task, becoming secondary relative to itself. Well, nothing, the novel "Mother" in schools read for a long time. And the symphony with "Fate knocks on the door" or with "in the Birch Field stood" is still listening. Although, probably, they are not loved for this.

But what effect does work with a given context have? We take the most replicated example, the group "War", which is yes. With the novelty, everything is in order here, in the sense - it is not. The Tattoo group appeared ten years ago on stage and photo shoots in white T -shirts with black words “dick war”. It's about context and Messide. "War" has hung up on the fight against bad representatives of law and order. In addition to a couple of other promotions over the past five years (commemoration of Prigov, a biological museum for a teddy bear, the heap of chicken inside a woman), they only do that they are fighting with the police-just some menth-dependence. Did they perceive the same “blue noses” as a role model, since their main breakthrough into public space was connected with kissing police officers?

Moreover, the "war" from the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a whole successfully gets along. In general, did they really burn that autozak? The car, it seems, really turned over - what is heard about this business? Well, for comparison - Pussy was a little bit and forth for 7 years, and the “war” burns a car zak, turns the car, throws with bottles of urine - there are no problems. Maybe they are generally a propaganda brigade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? That is not insinuation, but purely surprise from the reaction of the context where they brought their creative activity.

And it's cute and good that they are mainly free. But here: there is a topic of bad representatives of law and order. They - as an object of art - loves the group "War". She works in this context, thereby being civilian activists. And what does society get in the end? It receives peace: the “war” group by means of art closed this topic. You can put a checkmark, everything is in order with law enforcement officers, they are defeated, in the sense of branding artistically. Well, Pussiriot, too, probably draw some kind of tick now.

So what is in total?

So, the art should be program and socially useful. There is not much sense in this, but it should. But it excites contexts, and excited contexts are suspicious, that is, attention to everything around. In total, yes - this is it, art. And then it can already be concluded that all art is precisely this, nothing but that. Sadness.

But for art, not everything is so terrible. Exactly because in this matter there is the second side, society - which is much more art (numerically, etc.). The art here quickly turns out to be: it turned out here and has already escaped. Because only a train, agitation, subsequent opinions, interpretations, actions are important. All this is already for everyone, in a clearing of public life, outside the connection with the original act of any art. All opinions are fighting with each other, their carriers too. Reconciliation is impossible, the conversation is excluded - the martial art of universal network protest, Pussiriotism. But-it is produced only by two-three-four points, and the rest is in silence and not in sight, it happens there as a series, completely unnoticed against this background.

Even the trial of Pussy went into this background. Nobody even declared in socialists the names of the judges who are engaged in them-in contrast to other processes that had a public outcry. No one paid attention that the verdict was essentially sentenced - well, if the court decides that it is necessary to keep it before the end of April, it means that petty hooliganism is excluded, what is 15 days here, there will be another article. Moreover, it seems that there is no evidence that they really are, and if there are, then in court no one asked that they still wanted to tell with their video? It is clear what to clarify when there is already a bunch of explanations, up to the protest against the lack of spirituality of the XXS with his hall of solemn fitness, which is also not in the church, but in the municipal, or property. It is even strange, as they had not yet remembered that by the time of the explosion in the 31st, the temple was under the jurisdiction of the renovationists and did not even attach this. Well, somehow everything works.

But, of course, the article is not about the fact that art and singing songs on political topics are incompatible. Here, Joseph Boys sings a German political song that the sun will defeat Reagan (well, there is a few -living substitution in the chorus: rain - regen - reagan - Reagan), back in 1982

But only we do not love him for this.