WSOA Wits School of Arts.
Johannesburg opens new art school.
Where are the hotspots of 21st century art? Well, I think they are not in New York, Los Angeles, Maastricht or London anymore. Places like Tokyo, Prague, Shanghai, Bombay, Istanbul, Porto Alegre, Buenos Aires or Johannesburg seem much more alive, thrilling and promising. On one side, we cannot expect nothing but the falling leaves of Western chic: bureaucracy, inside trading, conceptual cynicism and political hypocrisy. On the other side, sprouting like a mental ring, we foresee the vortex of another kind of creativity: less formalistic, less de-constructivist, more cooperative, and more constructivist (or, as I prefer, re-constructivist.) Networking is definitely better than genius!
Young interesting artists will stop flying to London and New York as they did in the last 60 years, nurturing the novelty and quality of so-called "Contemporary Art". It is time now for qewing to South America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.
Is this just another case of wish full thinking? I don't think so. Watch WSOA and it's new interdisciplinary blow. - ACP.
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