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Art must have many layers. Art is not just about another beautiful painting that matches your dining room floor. Art has to be disturbing, art has to ask a question, art has to predict the future. It has to do all these kinds of things. An art concept has to have so many layers so that every part of society can take what it needs.
- Marina Abramovic via The Talks
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea or your coffee. How you decorate your home or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.
The viewer is, thus, confronted with his own blank mind. Here is cinema that doesn’t manipulate him, doesn’t use force on him: he himself, the viewer, has to search, to ask questions, sometimes unconsciously, other times consciously, and still other times by throwing objects at the screen. The serious art and the good entertainment are supposed to shake you up. Here, however, is an art which asks that it be shaken up; by you, filled up with ideas, by you! An art that is a tabula rasa. A cinema that leaves the viewer standing alone, in front of it, like looking into the mirror. Didn’t we always say that art mirrors reality? So here it really is! Before, it was always true that man mirrored art. Now we straighten things out. We liberate man from art’s slavery…Isn’t the mirror empty and silvery too, like Warhol’s face, like the silver of his hair, like the silver of Warhol’s Silver Flotations, the silver of The Factory walls, the silver of his paintings? Jonas Mekas, from Notes After Reseeing the Movies of Andy Warhol
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