World is confusing. It takes a long time to truly understand just how confusing and dynamic it is. We are born, we live and then we are reborn. Reborn again and again, when we realize some truths or reach some special stage in our creative life. I don’t mean reborn literally. No, we just feel like we have changed. And people change. They grow. Like trees, like cities.
Yesterday I watched this culture program which explored avant-garde, culture today and the relationship between an artist and a city. It was an interview with Jonas Mekas, a Lithuanian poet and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He said that the world changes, that avant-garde will always exist, because there will always be someone or something standing in the front. Like modern technologies or internet which open all the windows and doors for us to share our creativeness. He believes that commercialism and superficial values can’t possibly win over and that mankind will always strain to be in front. From big bang until now time and humanity have moved forward. This is the way life goes. Forward. And we should be grateful to death – it keeps the world dynamic.
I completely agree with his opinion. Humanity is the engine, and we must keep the world dynamic. The only way to do this is to rebel, oppose the mass culture and the mainstream commercial values. That is avant-garde – art/political movements that change our Weltanschauung.
I think this is more or less everything I wanted to say today.
