International Contemporary Art Forum
Modus Operandi – in quest of the third way
4-9 Novembre 2008, Tbilissi-Georgia
Artists: Neriman Polat, Evrensel Belgin
curator
Lesson: Democracy
=Nationalism =Conservatism=Socialism=Liberalism=
Ideologies, as the representation of generally accepted truths, have the main function of homogenizing differences and concealing contradictions and relations of interest. Ideologies share this same blood that constitutes their essence, derive from each other and multiply themselves in our individualities. This single dimensional reality created by ideologies mutilates from the beginning our relationship with the world around us. This is how we accept our desperation and even if we don’t make peace with this complex system that seems never-changing, we learn to live it with the threat of isolation, oppression, confinement and othering: “To emphasize the complexity of the circumstances frees us from the responsibility of reacting” (Slavoj Zizek).
We are all being called to unite in the ideal of democracy even though it does not have a single significant achievement across the world. And when we realise that this ideal that is eternal, above all circumstances and subjectivities and the most suitable rule for humankind, that equips us with these pedals (voting, claiming justice, taking part in a demonstration, calling for a strike etc.), is the one that mutilates us in the first place, when we face this menacing and sinister, pitch-black darkness that hides behind it, will we go on pressing the same pedals as we used to?
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