Using words such
as Communism, Class Struggle and Revolution in a While one could perfectly subscribe to the quote above some months ago (or probably still can), we are now witnessing the return of the political into the realm of art and culture in Denmark. This obviously happens after the outcomes of the last elections, but first of all analogous to developments that have been taking place in Italy, Austria, Germany or Sweden over the past years. It is the global uprising of the new social movements against the neoliberalist totality of the Empire that can be seen behind all of these developments. In fact, we have to see the multitude of political acting in order to be able to act ourselves. It is the monstrous intelligence of this multitude, the general intellect of the oppressed, the manyheaded subjectivities of the legions of colonized bodies, that forms resistance against biopower. Seeing the load of politically inspired work mostly by young artists in the copkop 2002 exhibition, we have to state that we feel a lack of direct resistance against the actual power structures. In lack of a widely expressed resistance in society and a broad movement (like Ya Basta in Italy or the "Widerstand" against the rightwing government in Austria two years ago) it is even more easy to turn the political to a trend in art, a momentary surplus, another niche, a commodity. We strongly feel the enormous power of the Danish Consensus, the elimination of any antagonistic formulation in the guise of "tolerance". This false consenus, that is in fact the endless reiteration of existing power structures, calls any radical action futile and tries to laugh at the struggle from its pseudo-mellow neoliberalist throne called "posthistory". We will riot down your Cool Babylon and the laugh of freedom will be ours. Art is NOT a vanguard of political movements. In fact it is the avantgarde
of postfordist exploitation, providing the "artist" as the role
model for the future entrepeneur of her own immaterial labor. Wonderful Copenhagen introduced the new methods of dealing with resistance
years ago, when the police fired over hundred shots at anti-EU-protestors.
That reformulation of the Danish Consensus is a true story of success:
The cops of Gothenburg and Genova are proud disciples of Danish Export
Quality. In the light of the coming Danish EU-Presidency we would like to suggest
a revival of decapitations of mermaids, smashing first of all the consensual
historification of political art (i.e. the de-politicalization of the
past). FUCK DENMARK, AUSTRIA AND THE EU! WE ARE MANY |