but I was thinking about it when we were playing

Thinking about political art I keep coming back to this little snippet from a post by Tobi.

Then Spider and the Webs played a show with some ‘no folk’ groups in a basement in East Olympia. We didn’t say anything about East Timor, but I was thinking about it when we were playing. Why, I don’t know. The situation of playing music in a party setting to people on a weeknight did not really seem like the right setting to talk about how terrible a place the world is. Everyone has to go to work in the morning, they are there despite that, and they want to be entertained.

Audio

“Imagination” – Al Larsen – mp3

What you call your art or your music or whatnot could be absurd, abstract, passionate, situational, confused, complex, transcendent, fleeting… still the rest of everything else factors in. …how terrible a place the world is… everyone has to go to work in the morning… they are there despite that… and they want to be entertained… It’s true whether you are playing a show or cooking dinner. This journal entry reminds me to expand the view of what the political art is… to include the show plus the writing, the cooking plus the shopping, the protest plus the reading, the eating plus the conversation.

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