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Conversation Pieces: Blog Post #1


From the text introduction we read from “Conversation Pieces” by Grant Kester, there were some key ideas that stood out to me, leaving a lasting impression in my view of community, art, dialogue, and engagement. 
  1. First was the idea of making the dialogue/critique process during rather than after the “viewing” of an art piece. 
  2. The second was Kester’s description of the varying levels of relationships between and effectiveness of community art-based practices that tie into social reform. 
  3. The third was Kester’s view on the role of art, that it is meant to “shock us out of this perpetual complacency, to force us to see the world anew.”

Three questions I had regarding the text were:
  1. To clarify, is Kester postulating that producing art for collective identities is the impetus for generalization or does it serve as a unifier or both?
  2. Is the purpose of Avant-Garde art to be understood itself or for its message to be understood, if it has a message?
  3. What is a proper, sensitive, and politically correct way to critique or comment on a work of art/dialogue that deals with a broader, active social or political issue?


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