"The loss of the language of communication is positively expressed by the modern movement of the decomposition of all art, its formal annihilation. This movement expresses negatively the fact the a common language must be rediscovered - no longer in the unilateral conclusion which, in the art of the historical society, always arrived too late, speaking to others about what was lived without real dialogue, and admitting this deficiency of light - but it must be rediscovered in the praxis, which unified direct activity and its language. The problem is to actually possess the community of dialogue and the game with time which have been represented by poetic-artistic works. "
Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle, Black & Red, 1983. #187
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A common struggle I find in evaluating artist works is that people of the academia tends to position an artwork within a unique and obscure artistic context, without which the artwork becomes unrelatable. This is problematic because what is the point of art if it is exclusive only to those that understands an obscure context? Commodity becomes almost a necessary stepping stone for the masses to experience "art," as it familiarizes the public of the context under which an art is constructed.
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