Chapter 8
“If one way to stimulate public imagination is to realize utopia, only to then make it disappear, another tactic is to conjure up utopias so outlandish and absurd that they can never be realized at all.”
So they are showing people the world that they can have, then take it away or create one that is impossible. They do this to make people realize what's missing in real life and hope that the things that they are shown or experience will make them want to change things for themselves. Both these things will grab people's attention and make them want to move towards the things that would make the world different in a way that is positive for them.
“If the issue is police violence, for instance, they might draw a picture of Black and Brown kids being stop-and-searched by police, or of a victim of police shooting lying on the ground while politicians look away—our own dystopian reality.”
The book is talking about how art can be used to bring attention to police violence and how they fail to respond when things happen in areas that they can just say it was gang-on-gang violence. Artists can show how police are when they only have the job because they are power hungry and not because they genuinely want to protect people. People in power also ignore police violence because they feel that if they ignore it, others won't notice, and they can live as if it's not a problem.
I think I would like to do a performance on mental health or police brutality.
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