{"id":3440,"date":"2021-02-03T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2021-02-03T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:53:40","slug":"why-make-things-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2021\/02\/03\/why-make-things-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Make Things Difficult?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why make things difficult for the viewer?<\/p>\n<p>We are a consumer-society, and it seems to me, that art has become a passive &#8216;spectator sport&#8217; to an extent unprecendented in history. I have always tried to work against this tendency by producing &#8216;occasions for interpretation&#8217; rather than &#8216;objects for consumption&#8217;. I believe that the ability to produce rather than consume meanings, and the ability to think\u00a0<em>otherwise\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; ways of thinking to encouraged by the imperative<strong> to commodity production, ways condemned as a &#8216;waste of time&#8217; &#8211; is fundamental to the goal of a truly, rather than nominally democratic society. I believe art is one of the few remaining areas of social activity where the attitude of critical engagement may still be encouraged &#8211; all the more reason then for art to engage with those issues which are critical.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Victor Burgin, from a Letter to a Collector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why make things difficult for the viewer? We are a consumer-society, and it seems to me, that art has become a passive &#8216;spectator sport&#8217; to an extent unprecendented in history. I have always tried to work against this tendency by producing &#8216;occasions for interpretation&#8217; rather than &#8216;objects for consumption&#8217;. I believe that the ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/2021\/02\/03215246\/05-nothingtome.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-Tu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}