Deconstructio ad Absurdum:

Divide Et Impera

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Amongst other goings on, I was a child born into the tail end of the 70’s Sydney art and music scene, into the tribe or spirit or vibe which I still identify with in many ways. Im pretty much a proto-woke baby if you must, who has lived out much of it twenty years ago,  and I do think this has some bearing on the following...

 

Concerning this work, 

I think part of what I am doing conceptually is exploring contrary and courageously critical (given the social climate) identifications and interpretations of personally familiar belief systems which I see in the world.  Belief systems which seem to be operating underneath what appears to be an American and subsequently Western authoritarian cultural revolution - though strangely one coming from and funded by the top end of town.

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This body of work comes out of a period of sincere uncertainty and includes questions and conversation starters like:

 

• How are todays culturally dominant so-called academic elite Marxist/postmodernist types thinking about things/what is the operating system and how is this contributing to the social division we see today? Is this their failure or their plan? Is there a better way?

• Why are these ideas being enforced from the top? 

• How do we determine what of the culture war is good and just, and what is not?

• Could identity politics and political correctness be misused?

• How much self-censorship are we doing?

• Is a Trojan horse scenario happening?

• What do we want to deconstruct? - What do we want to conserve?​

• Is it time? Has the Postmodern tear-down crew gone far enough? I was just playing a Velvet Underground riff and singing "two TV sets and two Cadillac cars, yeah there's nothing really happening at all" that seems very true, but is it different now, do we need to reassess, is there more to it? 

• Does curatorial censorship really forbid artists from presenting diverse ideas and having the open dialogues which challenge in good faith the dominant institutional narratives of today?

• What are the historical outcomes when the Marxist/communist schools of thought get overpowered? 

• Is all this simply the result of the mass loss of historical knowledge? 

• Which of the multi-cultis are you in and how's your epistemic humility?

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I think these are fair, loving and valuable questions which should be allowed into our creative discussion and not demonised as far-right or any non-sense like that by those who cannot defend their views without force and ad hominem attacks, cos the day Cappy is a far-rightist is a funny day... I tell you.