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Art Gouda | het Weeshuis | 01/06/’16 – 05/06/’16
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I think the kids are in trouble Do not know what all the troubles are for The National - Conversation 16 We often saw dead people from our school windows. After a while we got used to it. Aleppo, 05-10-‘13, 'Anan, 6 years old
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The book Distant Suffering, Morality, Media and Politics examines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer cannot act directly to affect the circumstances in which the suffering takes place? Luc Boltanski argues that spectators can actively involve themselves and others by talking about what they have seen and how they were affected by it. Developing the idea of the spectator in Adam Smith’s moral theory, in conjunction with the analysis of Hannah Arendt – the dichotomy ‘pity’ vs. ‘empathy’ - he examines three theoretical ‘topics’ available for the expression of the spectator’s response to suffering and which have existed since pity became central to politics at the end of the eighteenth century: the topic of denunciation, the topic of sentiment and the aesthetic topic. The book concludes with a discussion of a ‘crisis of pity’ in relation to modern forms of humanitarianism and suggests a possible way out of this crisis which involves an emphasis and focus on present suffering. In my series ’distant suffering’ I explore, again the relationships between ‘image’, ‘media’, ‘politics’, ‘art’ & ‘the safety of the art space’.
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The Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, as seen from the south eastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar / Mürşitpınar [ 36° 54' 14" North, 38° 20' 52" East ] in the Sanliurfa region Monday, October 20, 2014
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photo | Bulent Kilic | AFP Photo
photo | Lefteris Pitarakis | AP Photo
foto | Gokhan Sahin | Getty Images
foto | Kai Oliver Pfaffenbach | Reuters
photo | Gokhan Sahin | GettyImages
photo | Kai Oliver Pfaffenbach | Reuters
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Art Gouda www.artgouda.com het Weeshuis Spieringstraat 1-3 | 2801 Z Gouda 02/06/’16 – 05/06/’16 Trude Linde | Rolf van der Mije Wendy Speksnijder | Kris van der Hart Jean Lamaison | Katinka Lampe Ralf Westerhof Daphne Bergman, wethouder Gem. Gouda Gerard Kleijn, directeur Museum Gouda Frank Taal, Galerie Frank Taal | Rotterdam Special thanks to Udo Prinsen | Henri Boere
Special thanks to Giel Louws | Willy van Houtum | Dani Ploeger & Jen Gossé, people with reciprocity as the quintessence in their discourse.
For over the past, ever gone by, and over the future, still nonexistent, the present has an overwhelming privilege: that of being real.
DISTANT SUFFERING
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Art Gouda | het Weeshuis | 01/06/’16 – 05/06/’16
DISTANT SUFFERING IV | documentation of a cloud DISTANT SUFFERING VI | i.d. of a shared key #1
work in progress DISTANT SUFFERING VI | i.d. of a shared key #3
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