pre WW2, the goal of working art was to unconceal the earth from underneath us, and present it as such
for example painting obscene pictures of naked old people, because no one likes thinking about that, its hidden from our daily life, we push it away
its a concealed earth that we walk on and are oblivious too and rely on its concealment in order to maintain comfort
and this is heideggers definition of working art, and it makes sense
and i think in his era, the important thing to do (a la deconstruction) was pull people out of the romantic and into the void that they were repressing
romantic/classical, depending on whether you were religious or technical etc
but in any case the "earth" in this case was the uncomfortable void that everyone was ignoring
and people more or less do the same thing today, but what if its the opposite?
we've confronted the absurd formally ever since camus/sartre, and have been DEFAULT in the void
so working art is now about pulling us out of the absurd and back into the romantic
reminding us that feelings are still real, and things DO matter, even though we dont want to admit it
this meditation was inspired by this track:
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