{"id":23,"date":"2016-09-24T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queerresonance.wordpress.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2018-07-30T22:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:08:58","slug":"act-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanlupi.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/act-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Act of faith’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take your place on the platform in one of the four points indicated by the fruit and say “Hi”. Eat some fruit if you feel like it while we share the present moment. You can stand as long as you like. You could also take my place once I’ve left.<\/p>\n

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In times where politics has reduced itself to low entertainment tuned to the annihiliation of the thinking of the masses, the artist’s responsibility is to stand vigil over the boundaries that separate true history from propaganda.<\/p>\n

To make art today is to find a form of easy dialogue that faces in ever more directions, cultural, territorial, political, historical, ethnic.<\/p>\n

The body stands like a tablet, a vessel, a flag. The body cannot stop reinterpreting history nor offering a vulnerable greeting that creates a space for the sharing of a conversation.<\/p>\n

Art is not something we make. Art is there already and it blossoms at the moment where artist and audience bring their own personal contribution to a conversation that has philosophical and social value.
\nThis is the genesis of art.<\/p>\n

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From: ‘Act of faith’, performance. Government Museum and Art College. Chandigarh. India. Picture by Jeetin Rangher.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ivan Lupi’s ‘Act of faith’ Performance.
\nGovernment Museum and Art College, Chandigarh – India
\nMorni Hill Performance Art Biennale
\nMarch 2016
\nPicture: Jeetin Rangher
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