1968 Are We Domesticated?
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1968 Are We Domesticated?
1968 – Are we domesticated ?
If I were younger I would do politics, but I am too mush at easy, too integrated. Before, the artist, was kept apart from society. Today we, the proposers, are well placed in the world. We manage to survive just proposing. There is a place for us in society. There is another type of people, those who prepare the things that are doing to happen. Society still treats them as outlaws. In Brazil, during a political demonstration there was a fight with the police and I saw a young man of 17 to be murdered (I pinned his photo in my studio) I became conscious that he
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1968 Are We Domesticated?
opened with his own body a place for future generations. These youngsters have the same existential position as ours, they start things they were once unknown. But the resistance of society is stronger and kills them. It is just because they act more than we do and perhaps what they try to force is more essential. They are incendiaries. They shake the world. What about us? Sometimes I ask myself if we are not a little domesticated. What a bore…
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1968 Are We Domesticated?
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