CREATIVITY/HEGEMONY/HEIRARCHY/COMMUNICATION
GRAMSCI/MARX/MARC STEENE/VENTURE ARTS/ACTION SPACE/ART AND AGENCY ALFRED GELL/MAKING MATTERS
GRAMSCI/MARX/MARC STEENE/VENTURE ARTS/ACTION SPACE/ART AND AGENCY ALFRED GELL/MAKING MATTERS
Art and drawing and other forms of creative
expression are:
1. A way for liberatory ideas to be expressed to these groups in a way that they do not feel
separate/outside of.
2. A way for these groups of people to express their opinions and wishes and their own knowledge that they hold to the wider public, firstly breaking down a barrier of communication and secondly proving to them (both individual and collective) their own agency and power to create change. Making their voices louder and more confident, refusing to stand back.
By hegemony Gramsci meant the permeation throughout civil society – including a whole range of structures and activities like trade unions, schools, churches and the family – of an entire system of values, attitudes, beliefs, morality etc. That is in one way or another supportive of the established order and the class interests that dominate it. To the extent that this prevailing consciousness is internalised by the broad masses, it becomes part of the ‘common sense’.
For hegemony to assert itself successfully in any society, therefore, it must operate in a dualistic manner: as a ‘general conception of life’ for the masses and as a ‘scholastic programme’ or set of principles which is advanced by a sector of the intellectuals.
Carl Boggs, Gramsci’s Marxism
For hegemony to assert itself successfully in any society, therefore, it must operate in a dualistic manner: as a ‘general conception of life’ for the masses and as a ‘scholastic programme’ or set of principles which is advanced by a sector of the intellectuals.
Carl Boggs, Gramsci’s Marxism