Brian, Pedro, Jennifer, all. I think, again, we are writing or reading us in a loop, where thoughts and facts and opinions emerge from a deep feeling of insatisfaction. We are all writing/thinking from the privilege, we have the skills of the language, we can formulate our thoughts, we publish our thoughts in newspapers or magazines or blogs, we teach at universities, we curate exhibitions at the museums, we are a part of the discourse. But what happen with all the others? The retired apotecary who shot himself in the Syntagma Square? Or the Cuban dissident freed from Cuba hanging himself in Spain? Or all those Gaza people born in a jail and condemned to spend the rest of their lives in an open air jail? Is possible to write radical works or to make radical Art in such a conjuncture? I moved from Sweden back to Uruguay more or less for same reasons who made Brian move back to the States from Europe. When I tired of being the only foreigner writing in the biggest newspaper in Sweden and being a kind of token foreign I moved back, not because I could not longer enjoy the benefits of the system but because I become more and more bored of a system which suceed making all of to us to it's complices. I think we must break the rules, again, and break the consensus which is the base of all this corrupt and inhuman system feeding itself from our thoughts and deeds. The only writing and the only Art should be the ones changing the world and opening new spaces and contributing to new shapes. I know I am totally naive here and beg you to bear with me, I am after all a typical "68-huitard", wanting "tout tout de suite" :) Ana -- http://maraya.tumblr.com/ http://www.twitter.com/caravia158 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/ http://www.scoop.it/t/literary-exiles/ http://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/ http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/
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