Maryann Moquete
Acts of Resistance
10/24/2018
Quotes/ Response
Seeing Power: Chapter 5
"Seeing power is a form of reading an infrastructure—or, in more simple terms, a context. A street stencil of a young African American on a bicycle by the graffiti artist Swoon reads very different when placed on the walls of the Guggenheim museum than it does on a brick wall in Brooklyn."
When you see a painting in the streets, you know that the artist has the power, he/she put out this message regardless of the consequences, it shows that they will not be confined to the rules and regulations. Where as when you see a painting in the museum, you can tell that the institution has the power and that the artist is creating with rules in mind.
"After watching most of the cultural experience sacrifice to various types of consumerism, a generation is emerging that is learning to see through the smoke and mirrors of social productions"
This generation is becoming more aware that media and institutions are giving an altered image of what we want to see which is not true.
Seeing Power in Spaces: Chapter 6
"Ambiguous aesthetic actions can often act as facilitators for radically different conditions of being. Because ambiguous aesthetics can be open-ended, they can allow for forms of participation that evoke curiosity and a collective sense of becoming."
"Just as the privitization of cities is destroying the potential anticapitalist spaces of becoming, it is giving birth to its privatized capitalized form"
These institutions are becoming private and being made for the"elite" and just the famous artist. they are intruding into the spaces that are trying to representing anti capitalism.
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