is it so
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Art questioning cultural myths.
isitso 2020
A project for artists, by artists. We are a loose consortium of artists who have come together to explore the changing cultural landscape: specifically, the ways in which the current societal landscape is bringing into focus questions about the myths that define culture in the United States.
isitso Manifesto
We are living in a time of great uncertainty and change. The old cultural myths are breaking down and no longer hold collective meaning. The people of the United States (and to see degree other Western nation-states) are in a collective identity crisis. It is time to take apart those old myths and create new ones. Art is the ideal vehicle. The cultural myths are hidden inside of our stories. The current moment is exposing the myths.
isitso Discussion
You are invited to join in the discussion about the isitso 2020 project. A few ground rules for discussion:
- be kind
- be respectful
- stay on topic
America
The Howler
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by business school, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through Wall Street at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded yuppies burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the market dynamo in the machinery of Capital, who polos and dockers and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-war flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating monopoly, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Hayekian angels swaggering on condominium roofs illuminated,
(appologies A.G.)
