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[Anonymous No.9009994]

Whoah... so this... is the power of Metamodernism™

http://hewillnotdivide.us/

>Commencing at 9am on January 20, 2017, the day of the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, the public is invited to deliver the words "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" into a camera mounted on a wall outside the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, repeating the phrase as many times, and for as long as they wish.

>Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency. In this way, the mantra "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" acts as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism, guided by the spirit of each individual participant and the community.

[Anonymous No.9010006]

>In 2011, Luke Turner published a Metamodernist Manifesto.[21] The manifesto recognised "oscillation to be the natural order of the world" and called for an end to "the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child."[21][22] Instead, it proposed metamodernism as "the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons."[23] The text cited the work of Vermeulen and van den Akker, and concluded “we must go forth and oscillate!”[10][24] Turner later credited his manifesto to the actor Shia LaBeouf as part of the pair's wider artistic collaboration.[25][26]

>In early 2014, Shia LaBeouf embarked on a collaboration with Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö, described by Dazed as “a multi-platform meditation on celebrity and vulnerability,” and referred to by the collaborators as metamodernist performance art.[27] This included a performance in a Los Angeles gallery entitled #IAMSORRY, in which LaBeouf sat for six days silently crying in front of visitors, wearing a tuxedo and a brown paper bag over his head emblazoned with the words "I am not famous anymore".[28]

[Anonymous No.9010016]

>>9009994
It's called meme magic you dip.

[Anonymous No.9010037]

>>9010006
Why are contemporary artists more interested in labeling their art than making it?

[Anonymous No.9010065]

"It's all one love"

[Anonymous No.9010066]

>>9010037
because they are post-modernist artists duh

[Anonymous No.9010068]

>>9010037
Post-conceptualism

[Anonymous No.9010078]

>>9010037
what
most artist don't like labeling themselves

[Anonymous No.9010085]

>>9009994
>people using cameras on their phone
>to take photos of someone looking into a camera
>while being watched by the camera on the upper right

hmmmm

[Anonymous No.9010089]

>>9010085
Holy shit how many layers of deep insight are you on????

[Anonymous No.9010092]

>>9010037
Marketing makes more money than quality of content.

[Anonymous No.9010095]

>>9010085
Omg and the people are shadows

[Anonymous No.9010108]

>>9010089
It reminds of the essay DFW wrote about cameras, something about the camera promising Oedipal voyeurism that has become addictive for society.

Basically I'm saying these people are multiple levels deep in incest fantasy.

[Anonymous No.9010109]

>>9010006
Hes a hack and a pseud.

[Anonymous No.9010113]

>>9010095
People aren't shadows, Jayden.

[Anonymous No.9010114]

>believe he will not divide us
>divides America further
What did Shia "postmodern pseud" lebouf mean by this?

[Anonymous No.9010118]

I'd let Daddy Trump divide me if you know what I'm saying

[Anonymous No.9010156]

Shia is on the verge of a mental breakdown coz of all the altrighters screaming pepe

[Anonymous No.9010157]

>>9009994
>When Plato's cave allegory is trying to be replicated.

[Anonymous No.9010335]

>>9010157
I don't understand what you mean. Can you elaborate.