“It’s About Being Alive”
Emily Feinstein, International Liberation Reference Person for Visual Artists
Part of what I’ve been thinking about is giving people a chance and the room to notice and feel and discharge on the effort, the care, the joy in making things—whether it be with sound or visuals or dance or words.
It’s about being alive, and it’s so inherent. About forty thousand years ago there were the cave paintings. I don’t think they were just about communication.
People need a chance—with unfettered good attention, so that all the noises of comparison and judgment and indifference get lifted a bit—to actually notice and feel what they care about and show it.
The other thing I’ll say is that this is an interesting time. We need joy, we need life, we need connection. Art, and the way we can communicate through art, allows us to see the possibility of reality and being human, while we face and take on [engage in] the struggle.
Brooklyn, New York, USA