Enter the Mothership: artist Yto Barrada's Tangier garden | Tate 

Enter the Mothership: artist Yto Barrada's Tangier garden | Tate 1856pm 29.5.24 "domination" is not the preserve of western forces lauding it over alleged lesser people.

@@JJONNYREPP You can hide your lack of taste and knowledge of Moroccan Art's history all you want, behind your anti-western propagandist affront (that belongs elsewhere), but it will not change the fact that Tate's visitors will miss an opportunity to see real Moroccan art, in lieu of something that it is not. When curatorial decisions are made based on who can pay the museum more for an opportunity to exhibit a certain radical propagandist -- art disappears. You might as well put a jar of piss there, and call it A Revolt Against Oppression (which, by the way, has been done before.) For someone uneducated and unrefined, whom you falsely threaten to equate with the non-western and opressed, it is much easier to connect with concoctions that lack aesthetic quality, layers of meaning, or skilful execution that is a product of years of education and training in art. Picasso's career did not begin with abstract art. If you think that art is so easily accessible, you have a lot of learning and work to do. But, most people are too lazy to do it. Are you one of them?

@@EagerInterlocutor Enter the Mothership: artist Yto Barrada's Tangier garden | Tate. 29.5.24. To be deemed the oppressor makes me laugh. To be contrived to such a degree as to be deemed thee acme of the downtrodden and then to be cast, by the very same culture which demanded the suppressed rise up, as the arch totalitarian...is the work of stupidity, sentimentality, a rank and tiresome monologue, usury, exploitation and self satisfaction.... you might as well go get the man obsessed with the straight and true draw lines upon a door with his own excrement as listen to educated erudite mongoloids chit chat about the weary journey of the slovenly artiste. you're wrong. you need no educated or refined taste in art to appreciate or hate the art you encounter. anything and everything in your waking and supine existence... everything you encounter... is gonna induce a certain reaction - art is no different. the education you speak of refers to theories and ideas which gave rise to the artiste and his or her art. that can easily be encountered later. the main thrust of art is to garner and induce reactions - immediately. there you go, easy as that!!!! art is easily accessed. super saturation of imagery via www attests to this. yes, i am lazy. art is not at all engaging these days. it isn't even laughable... certainly not laudable. go watch christies art auctions to wonder at the nonsense that the art world is. the puerile nature of all things shows this to be true. probably depends on which set of people have been tasked with highlighting this or that school of art as being worthy of scrutiny. this is real Moroccan art? if you say so... i am not anti western. but i am aware of the various arguments dished out regards anti western traditions. as time and place and one's situation, within a forever fractured and fissured world, seems to be all art can conjure re: discussion - then, maybe, these allegedly overlooked cultures should go peak a glimpse at their own pasts and ascertain how oppressive or regressive or enlightened they were... as opposed to the west being seen as an all embracing, all-consuming exploitative hodge podge of sensibilities - eager to expand the nature of capital or colonialism.