“You open yourself to judgement, the failures are on you, but so are the successes”

• A interview with ARTODAY end Erlend Grytbakk Wold

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In 2018, New York’s Greenspon gallery was to exhibit work by the duo Darja Bajagić and Boyd Rice. The show never opened. After a storm of what the gallerist, according to Artnews, described as both threats and criticism, Amy Greenspon decided to cancel the exhibition, prompting widespread debate and coverage in several major art journals.
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Spanning a number of different disciplines -- ceramics, performance, video, costume -- Urara's work reifies the absurdities of human life and nature with a unique and droll charm.
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Where the political left was once the clear bastion of free speech and expression in the U.S., it could be argued that the new left silences thought and speech perceived as antithetical or offensive to its values almost as much as the right wing does, or did. This is a problem for culture, and evidently, for art. “Political correctness,” says Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, “is a desperate attempt by the public norms to tell you what is decent, what is not.” What Žižek suggests here is that political correctness can be harmful in its ability to obscure the truth and dilute public discourse; by sanitizing rhetoric we sanitize cultural meaning. This climate of over-the-top, politically correct theatrics has infiltrated the art world; art’s job is ultimately to push back on societal taboos and interrogate prevailing norms. Good art is almost always offensive to someone.
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