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FMErá engages a fluxes
perspective in its approach to producing, fabricating, and documenting
interdisciplinary art. It acknowledges no boundaries between mediums
while favoring projects which "make do" and find advantage in what is
difficult and available. It shies away from hierarchical projects and
organizations where artists are elevated to a god-like status and
then
held at a distance from lesser artists and patrons and saved only for a
privileged few. It embraces systems which press for both vertical and
horizontal integration of social and aesthetic structures while not
giving up vital energy to struggling with those who cling to the
opposite. It tries to lead by doing and example.
The push for fair play and equality within society is now taken for
granted—an ongoing movement coming from the left of the political
spectrum, the American
transcendentalists, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and so
forth. However,
starting already in the 1970s, a reaction against the fluxes and post
modern influence of John Cage, Merce Cunningham,
Joseph Beuys, George Maciunas,
and so many others, a powerful reactionary tendency which has
reasserted itself to an extent that the pre-world war 2 modernist
concept of art, the antithesis of Cages 4'33",
has again become dominant. This is a narrowness which hallows fixed and
well-defined art mediums, where intermedia art is held with
suspicion and even reviled, and where elitism and exclusivity is
embraced like a Teddy Bear. In this sense, the social left and center
left, from whence
artistic invention must originate, is now quite similar to the the
social
right. It denounces artistic integration and clammers for craft
excellence. The resulting stagnation is not unlike the post American Civil War
reconstructionist
ideal which would account for art intended to shock rather than lift
individuals and society. Such art, itself off-the-shelf, intensifies
aesthetic
rigity while pretending to confront it using methods of confusion and
double talk. Efemera is intent on doing its part to reverse this trend
using an integrative approach to producing, fabricating, and
documenting interdisciplinary art.
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