DISMANTLINGS :: Guenther Rabl

ORDERED CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILLUSION AND NOSTALGIA

According to my modest life experience – still a far cry from the aged wisdom of elderly conductors or operetta composers, Churchill’s parrot or Schickelgruber’s turtle – there are only two basic types of ordered circumstances: illusion – and nostalgia. Illusion, as an anticipated falsification of future circumstances; nostalgia, as a cosy, lagging falsification of past circumstances. As a third one, culture could, if need be, also be included – a tunnel vision-like falsification of present circumstances.
In reality, future as well as past circumstances, and, in an implied sense, naturally the present ones, are, as people here so tellingly put it: one big pile of swine.
Order is first created with reception. However, order also has quality criteria, so it should be left up to those who can do it; those who have the power and spirit to transform that chaotic trinity, which stinks to high heaven, into a beautiful entity through their perspective – the artists.

© Günther Rabl 2006
translated by Brian Dorsey
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