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Art Sabotage
This nOde last updated April 21st, 2003 and is permanently morphing...
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Art Sabotage by internal linkHakim Bey

Art sabotage strives to be perfectly exemplary but at the same internal linktime retain an element of opacity - not propaganda but æsthetic shock - apallingly direct yet also subtly angled - action-as-metaphor.

Art Sabotage is the dark side of Poetic Terrorism - creation through destruction - but it cannot serve any Party, nor any nihilism, nor even art itself.  Just as the banishment of illusion enhances awareness, so the demolition of æsthetic blight sweetens the air of the world of discourse, of the Other. Art Sabotage serves only consciousness, internal linkattentiveness, awakeness.

A-S goes beyond paranoia, beyond deconstruction - the ultimate criticism - physical attack on offensive art - æsthetic jihad. The slightest taint of petty ego-icity or even of personal taste spoils its purity & vitiates its internal linkforce. A-S can never seek power - only release it.

Individual artworks (even the worst) are largely irrelevant - A-S seeks to damage institutions which use art to diminish consciousness & profit by delusion. This or that poet or painter cannot be condemned for lack of vision - but malign Ideas can be assaulted through the artifacts they generate. MUZAK is designed to hypnotize & control - its machinery can be smashed.

Public book burnings - why should rednecks & Customs officials monopolize this weapon? Novels about children possessed by demons; the New York Times bestseller list; internal linkfeminist tracts against pornography; schoolbooks (especially Social Studies, Civics, Health); piles of New York Post, Village Voice & other supermarket papers; choice gleanings of Xtian publishers; a few Harlequin Romances - a festive atmosphere, wine-bottles & joints passed around on a clear autumn afternoon.

To throw money away at the Stock Exchange was pretty decent Poetic Terrorism - but to destroy the money would have been good Art Sabotage. To seize TV transmission & broadcast a few pirated minutes of incendiary internal linkChaote art would constitute a feat of PT - but simply to blow up the internal linktransmission tower would be perfectly adequate Art Sabotage. If certain galleries & museums deserve an occasional brick through their windows -  not destruction, but a jolt to complacency - then what about BANKS? Galleries turn beauty into a commodity but banks transmute internal linkImagination into feces and debt. Wouldn't the world gain a degree of beauty with each bank that could be made to tremble... or fall? But how? Art Sabotage should probably stay away from politics (it's so boring) - but not from banks.

Don't picket - vandalize. Don't protest - deface.


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