February 8, 2010
+Green Screen
The following promotional video is a strangely poetic visualization strategy for thinking about industries that depend on content based place-making. [I clearly like to think of "Art" working this way, as its nature of being an organically replicating collective activity is responsible for local gentrification and God knows how many tourism grants.]
The video is also incredibly helpful in my own pursuit of expressing my fascination and use of the color green.
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Wow, that WAS strangely poetic. I’m curious to know more about how you believe this gentrification occurs. I get the gist, but I guess I am curious to know what falls into the “Art” category, specifically.
Gentrification does not seem to me to be an organic activity. But art and “Art” can be organic place-making activities, when supported by a community (industry) that values diversity in thought and expression. What would that “Art” be like? What would those communities (industries) be like?
Marsa:
Well, first off, thanks for the comment!
The best way to begin to describe the scenario I briefly touch upon is to first note the extremely complicated relationship art has with being an economy and participating in a larger one. I think the agenda of most Art-community-building-initiatives is to self-replicate the desire and representation of producing and maintaining a place-making “community (industry) that values diversity in thought and expression.” The artists involved usually recognize a certain kind of resource available in a location, and through their attention (collectively and individually) exploit those resources via the direction of attention. Think about how important attention is in any cultural scenario. These “Artists” simply do what is necessary for their tribe to survive. This is how I identify it as being organic.
In regards to wondering what that “Art” would be like within the circumstances of being “supported by a community (industry) that values diversity in thought and expression,” I have to admit that it’s unlikely that it will ever breach the confines of the name that contains it: The Art World. Like the actors on a green screen set, artists within their artist communities secretly know that they are acting in an imaginary context and that their actions are based on the development of persuading emotions, and the individuals producing them, to exchange the attention necessary for their content to survive and bear fruit.
In an attempt to participate in fruitful attention communities, audience members [located as 'outsiders' by both artists and the audience members themselves, for various reasons] implant themselves with the methods developed by their resources and acquire the sets that the “Art” activities are performed on.
Additionally, I’d like to note that art is not responsible for ALL gentrification. I should’ve made that clear.