Chapter 8
"The dark side also understands, sometimes better than us, the power of artistic activism and history has proven this, over and over again. In fact, the most brilliant artistic activists of modern times were not working for peace and justice, or racial, gender, or sexual equality. They were not working for a more democratic society. Quite the opposite: they were engaged in a struggle for racial purity, hierarchical power, and military domination. They were the Nazis."
Response: This refers that just because Activism is Artistic, doesn't mean its politics are even good. They were not working for peace and justice, nor racial, gender, nor sexual equality, nor they are working for a more democratic society. They are talking about how Nazis employed the techniques of artistic activism.
"It's also not just extremists of political power and violent destruction who understand the aesthetic and emotional impact of their work. Turn on the television, flip through the pages of a magazine, or browse the web and you’ll see artistic activism in daily practice. Advertisers, marketers, and public relations agents are in the business of using signs, symbols, and stories that tap into our dreams and nightmares in order to prompt a very particular and focused material action: buying stuff."
Response: What it's referring to is that it's not just extremists of political power and violent destruction who understands the aesthetic and emotion impact of their work. There are advertisers, marketers, and public relations agents using signs, symbols, and stories to make us, the people or consumers ourselves, to buy their stuff.
Chapter 9
"Many activists and artists operate under this premise: that the biggest problem we face is that most people don’t understand The Problem. And, since most people don’t understand what’s wrong, it is our job to tell or to show them. This may be true in some cases. But in most instances, people know something is wrong because they are suffering, or are witnessing suffering."
Response: What it means is that many activists and artists faced the biggest problem and it's that most people don't understand the problem. In order people to understand what's the problem, we have to tell or to show them. Sometimes, people would also know something is wrong when they are suffering or witnessing something's wrong.
"Why does More create this wonderful world only to then tell us that such worlds can never exist? It’s not just some sort of cynical trick. The power of Utopia lies in its ability to be possible and impossible, real and unreal, all at the same time. More’s storytelling convinces readers that Utopia is a real place, providing specific details on how the Utopians live, what their mating customs are, and how their cities are constructed."
Response: From what I've learned. A Utopia is a world that it is a perfect place that could be imagined to be both possible and impossible at the same time. A Utopia could be something on what we could imagine. For example, a futuristic world with flying cars, or a world where plants grow lively around where no pollution or anything that harms plants.
Intervention Project Draft
In summary of my project, my performance project talks about what could one part of your fond memory could dictate change to the present and future. There are people that have one part of their memory about that one moment they love in their life, and they wondered how the present or future would change if it was really good, just like the one good memory they loved or cherished back then. This is where this project performance comes in, this performance will let people look back and reminisce onto one certain thing they remembered and loved back then. Not only that, it could also let people think about what could that part of the memory dictate change around the present or future, considering on what's going on right now in the present.
This performance is much easier and simpler, and it only requires drawing. In order to do this performance, they need to have some drawing materials and something to draw on, like a pen, pencil, or a marker, with a sheet of paper. I recommend you with something simpler like a pencil with a sheet of paper, so it will not be a hassle to find something that you don't have. If they don't have any of these, I would share a sheet of paper and a pencil for the performance. Next, they need to think about what part of their fond memory that they enjoyed and cherished, and then draw on what they're describing. They have to describe on what moment they loved and enjoyed back then and draw on what they're describing. Lastly, they have to think on how can one part of their fond memory they enjoyed can dictate change and improve on to the present or future, considering how things are going right now. It could let the people tell more about that certain fond memory they loved, and it will let them think about how can their fond memory can change, or improve, the present or future to make it as good as the fond memory they loved back then.
(The Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qjPqtdAcIzSZQr_dxGyqSVYiwspq3Ewo/view?usp=drive_link)
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