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2014, Feb 21
Shirin Neshat on consciousness

I don’t insist on contemporary artists being politically active but they ought to be politically conscious. And if I could be that blunt, I think the art market has been the biggest factor in determining art movements for the past decade or so; and the money involved has seduced galleries, collectors and artists to becoming super rich and very, very distanced from sociopolitical issues; art has basically become a commodity and about entertainment.

From an interview with Shirin Neshat 1, whose excellent video pieces I was lucky enough to see last year in Kanazawa 2.


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