[IMC-Editorial] CULTURE AGAINST VIOLENCE www.geocities.com/sergjak/inter

[Sergej Jakovlev]

Please let to tell about Project CULTURE AGAINST VIOLENCE www.geocities.com/sergjak/inter 

2003-03-27 Sergej Jakovlev, Atmosfargatan 15, 41521 Gothenburg, SWEDEN 

The Artists' Declaration and International Cultural Program have been created before September of 2001 - but it couldn't be heard. Now it is not so late yet to look at the contemporary situation from the distinct point of view.

We would be glad to hear from you. Sincerely, Curators of Project  

Contents:

  1.. Man's Search for Meaning 
  2.. Pessimism and Violence as a Totalitarism of Banality. The Role of Art 
  3.. About Art 
  4.. Artists' Declaration 
  5.. International Cultural Program
PESSIMISM AND VIOLENCE AS A TOTALITARISM OF BANALITY. THE ROLE OF ART /fragment/

If we are not happy - that means we are deceived by some kind of totalitarism. It is some special nowadays - it could be called a totalitarism of banality. Maybe it is most dangerous kind, because it is total completely and it use a total means of propaganda. Pessimism and violence in the modern world are the results of totalitarian banality.

The general human notions as a freedom, meaning, love, life, death - which are in the coordination with a personal freedom - are at stake. People feel that they have not a possibility of human realization. It is a symptom of totalitarism in the society.  The modern totalitarism could be understood as a mass-culture /determined by Bertram Russell/, as a total propaganda of banality in a lot of spheres of the social and individual life, and numerous another forms. But all of them could be classified as a totalitarian banality - i.e. as an enforcement to live being closed inside the shut ideas. The different variations of totalitarism in the history had been connected with the wars on the territory of its location always, but an infection of totalitarism had never been diffused over the whole world before. The spiritual vacuum can be filled up by the primitive horror, which has already stepped from a movie into the real life by one of its legs, and a situation now looks like people haven't an alternative. This kind of totalitarism, as each one of them, makes people crazy. 

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artists' declaration from the special art-exhibition at the Royal Hall of Hotel Eggers at the time of European Conference 

                                              15 - 17 June, 2001.   Gothenburg, Sweden. 

/fragment/    

Twentieth century was a century of "mass culture". It was the modern myth about an "average man" who has an average life and needs  "mass culture" only. 

It is possible to meet the average men among the foolish political gamesters with their primitive ideology, which enforced people to live in the average totalitarian world, and among the ignorant art-dealers as well, which were doing the "mass culture" war against humanity. 

People win in the war of banality against them. Man doesn't want to be an "average man" any more. That is stayed in the last century. 

People do not need the foolish ideology and the ignorant art-myths. People need a humane life and authentic art. 

Man doesn't want to be a means any more. Man is always the purpose. 

                                                                                        Sergej Jakovlev , 2000     texts geocities.com/sergjak/inter

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