Post 4 - Helina Boatwright

 

The art of Activism: Your all-purpose guide to making the impossible possible 

"It's too easy to replicate combinations that have already been made, and so its imporatnt to look further afield."

Its eaxy to copy art, but if u were to do deeper resaerch you would be able to find a deer or differ mead that the last artist missed, and you can creat somenting arounf that and you and the artist who inspired you can have pices that seem completly different but are actualy conneected. 

" Producing good work takes a lot of work: we need to know and expect this."

To make work that is good u need to keep going even when you think you have found a good idea. We may want to stop once we have something good,d but if we keep going, more good ideas will come, and u can combine all your good ideas to make an even better one. 

Towards a curatorial Activism 

"To invert that power structure, Bell reappropriates the master appropriator, and returns ethical concerns to Aboriginal art."

"To address this embarrassingly obvious ‘knowledge gap’, I began organising an exhibition titled Blood on the Palm, which looks at the history of violence on Palm Island, as a metaphor for race relations in Australia."

Part 1 - An art intervention is art that interacts with the stuff around it. Artic can create a message for audiens that inspre chage is by researching and finding the problem in that community. It's easier to do your own community because you're more likely to know a bit about what's going on, but you still need to do research. We can schedule times for creativity so well improve at it becuase it we dont well get more frustrated. We also need to make many sketches and combine them to make our ideas better. Curatorial activism is used to challenge ideas and help spread awareness of things. They can function to expand art activism by adding art that they even think is conservative.

Part 2 - A problem that I would like to fix is urban schools. I think that if you were to place parents and people who are not in a school environment in one for a school day, they will feel the need for it to be changed. I think that people on the board of education and others who can help improve urban schools should attened on for a week. If they can attend an actual school, I think one should be made like the Olafur Eliasson structures, which he made to talk about the environment and make the viewer reflect on their responsibility to the planet. The urban school starter will do the same, but instead make people realize what they can do to help these urban schools.