Contemporary art: what is the point

Why the flying fuck?

Flashback stories time

> be me
> be art student
> be little asshole who thinks he knows all
> read socialist bull shit like Slavoj Zizek

In Welcome to the Desert of the Real there's a bit about Stockhausen and 9/11. Apparantly Karlheinz Stockhausen said the attack on the Twin Towers was the best (or something similar) artwork ever, and this could hardly be surpassed. The curious little edgelord I was, I googled it, to be able to shout: "9/11 war das beste Kunstwerk aller Zeiten!" (Is that correct German?) And I found this page — result number one on grand scholar google — with more information as to what Stockhausen actually said about 9/11.

As I said, I'm an absolute edgelord — can't help it — so I held on to that information and used it wherever I saw fit (everywhere). Did I believe that 9/11 was the ultimate artwork? Perhaps, I'm not even sure to be honest. I think, for a long time I might have believed that due to its massive impact, it could have been. Attention: thin ice ahead: Terrorism^tm can qualify as art, depending on how you define art. A terrorist wants to have impact on people, just like an artist. Artists often want to provoke a public unsolicitedly. Be it aesthetically, morally, whatever. So same thing.

I have come to disagree with myself. Art is not so much the physical object anymore. It's a range of things, and to name a few:

attitude
edginess
critique of environment
self-critique (reflection)
understanding the medium
authority
effect on public

Aesthetics is for design, fuck that. (Though a sharp reader will say: that's part of the effect on the public.) An artistic terrorist — wait let me add another one

element of surprise

— an artistic terrorist would not do the belt trick at a large event or in a metropolitan area; we expect that to happen. What we don't expect is an attack in the country side: Bomb Attack on Bus Kills All 2 Passengers. The artist-terrorist would play with the medium, or take just their own life in an act of self-critique.

Destruction is never a good way to critique something. You've got to act opposite; just like social justice warriors, who are actually white supremacists.