Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-10-25 12:27
2 topics rolled into one:
a) Inasmuch has music a political dimension? Watching the artist´s efforts to campaign against a re-election of G.W. Bush, it appears, here in Europe I daresay, both misplaced and impressive. Music in this country has never been that outspoken and realpolitik, if at all, more academically distanced and indirect. Should we learn something from US-pop there, something perhaps important? We´re certainly all aware that we´re not musicians in a vacuum, and we all know about the socio-, cultural political implications of the production´s conditions of cultural goods, how explicitely political can and/or should a musician be?
b) Here in Berlin there is a huge exhibition on these days, "The Flick Collection": Great contemporary art, collected by one Flick, whose grandfather was one of Hitler´s biggest weapondealers, a NSDAP-member. Should I refrain from seeing it? Is the art in thus collected, with money come acchieved through slavelabour and a genocidal regime, stained, and in itself impossible to look at? It´s not difficult to drop those realsozialismus-worker´s painitings or these maiden-bulks painted by artists during the 3rd Reich, but what now with, taken for itself, astonishing contemporary art, presented by someone whose aim it is to "give his name a different ring in the world again", as the collector said it. Our chancellor opened the exhibition officially, and I am a bit sick at the tries of this rounding up history, as if it were over and done with. Or am I the typical hysterical German, in this respect, and should just go and see the exhibition?
Markus
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