PORK MAGAZINE: "Dennis, tell me about the Battle for Art!" DENNIS DREAD: "This thing we call “art” out of sheer convenience is the crucible of dreams, nightmares, fantasies, desires, fears, possibilities and, ultimately, empowerment and self-realization. It is the outpost of the soul and it is worth defending. There are hidden roots and tactics best left unspoken, but this is essentially what the battle for art is about. I don’t think I have to inform anyone reading this that the conditions of the modern world conspire daily to crush the spirit, stunt the intellect and sanitize artistic expression. Economic coercion and social condemnation are very real forces that would violently wring the passion, imagination and joy from our lives if we only unwittingly allow it. They live, we sleep! Those who don’t turn back when society commands are often either assimilated and neutralized or imprisoned, either in the literal sense or within the intangible prisons of addiction, mental illness and self-loathing. Let’s face it, we all have bills to pay and some of us have families that depend on us, so there are ample opportunities for less courageous artists to bow out, give up and move on to more lucrative and less demanding arenas. One can hardly blame them. Only the truly obsessed, devoted, determined, dumb or insane will push forward where posers fear to tread. Those are the soldiers I want at my side on the front line of the cultural weird war..." READ MORE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF PORK MAGAZINE (#11)...AVAILABLE WHEREVER FREEDOM STILL RINGS!
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:24:43 +0000
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