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[per_simmon]

Yesterday was the first meeting of a burgeoning anarcho-queer-radical-street-theater-for-the-revolution group. I admit the name doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. But it was a first meeting, so maybe we'll find something a little more descriptive or at least kicky.

I've run up against a sort of a quandry, in terms of the place of identity in art.

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[gaal]

Oh, hi.

Even when artists ostensibly deal only with "pure" form and color it's still a comment about their cultural identity.

You can turn that around, though, and say that even art that's overtly "about" identity has to deal with formal elements. Theme is a matter of interpretation too, and just as you don't have to insist on denying the relevance of biography, so you don't have to put your appreciative spotlight on the artist's identity discourse. The Weil and Weinstein have overt formal involvement, for example. (It's probably telling that if someone disagreed with me, they'd be likely to appeal to biographical facts about the artist...)