kitsch and materials for ethical-aesthetic program. remember with pleasure, when in my day in the Antarctic I spent all my time lying on the lounger and immersing myself in reading. I remember specially one of those moments where the theoretical wander shows a fuller truth, to be understood as a living.
was mating season. My recurring antisocial added, who knows if not enhanced, by my little dysfunctional sexual organ player, made me move away from the group.
Believe me there is only one thing worse than a penguin lover, and are the discourses on the experience of the fatherhood of the Penguins.
only in the group listening to sentences like: "You have beautiful feathers!" "Noooo! Mássss You! "," Has the peak of his father! "Or" Having a child changes your life. You feel magical, larger than an artist. "
All this I found it nauseating. An inquisitive reader might think that this feeling was motivated only by envy, but that's not true. At no time in my life I've longed for fatherhood or feel love. They are roles that simply do not like. Look! I'm that bad.
The point is that I left the group with my seat in a flap and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera in the other. Reading it got me excited. And in particular the deployment of the "kitsch" and promotes the work done.
As defined by Kundera, kitsch is "the systematic denial consistent attitude shit in the world." Kitsch somewhat equivalent to what in philosophy, and especially in theology, sometimes called "theodicy" or " justification of evil. "
I realized that the mating ritual of the penguins had a lot of kitsch and that was exactly what bothered me. This exaltation of life and love was not bad in itself, but serving as a smokescreen to several facts slightly more recalcitrant.
With his speeches intended to ennoble actions were rooted in aspects of our miserable condition. Procreate because it is a natural requirement of the species and this ensures that this happens prompting us to enjoy.
Having children is conceived within the kitsch look like a good act, beautiful, altruistic and born of a free will, when in fact the opposite is true. These speeches deniers of shit that just mask puppets are natural and selfish pleasure slaves.
When you realize that, you can see the kitsch in many areas of everyday life. The moral principles that are often a desperate attempt to deny the arbitrariness of our actions or simply an act of cowardice on the run from the moment of decision.
Shit (the bad and harmful) does not go away for failing to mention it. Every speech that is both more systematically hidden and dangerous accomplice. Well you never know in what form the repressed can return.
Some say that the function of art is precisely to make tolerable this substrate miserable life. This is what is also called the "cathartic" of art, but this claim has to be thought deeply. Leftovers are known as aesthetic choices that go through to become the sadistic opposite of kitsch. The artistic ennoblement of shit es una de las propuestas estéticas más recurrente del arte con deliberado carácter de compromiso social.
Pero, por el contrario de lo que piensan algunos, la contemplación de la mierda no redime por sí solo. Al contrario, el artista puede llegar a ser cómplice de la maldad que ayuda a transmitir de modo estabilizador al espectador.
Tendría que pensarse una relación del arte con la mierda que nos evite la estéril disyuntiva entre ladear la mierda o estabilizarla. Rechazar y estabilizar son dos formas de complicidad que no ayudan a lidiar con el carácter miserable de nuestra existencia.
