Continuing yesterday’s post – here is Alain De Botton, arguing for an instrumental use of art: The idea that one might use art for a purpose, for “instrumental” reasons, tends to set off alarm bells. Art is not an instrument, comes the almost automatic reply. It shouldn’t be thought of as some kind of tool. It’s…
Tag: Antti Laitinen
– rowing against the current
If you wonder what contemporary political art might look like, have a look at this: Antti Laitinen, Growler, 2009 video still … I tried to make a small iceberg, so throughout the winter I stored 7 cubic meters of snow inside a big styrofoam box. When the summer came, I took the snow out and brought it…
