I tried to use all of the platforms available to me— in the media and within the work itself— to quite aggressively move forward an agenda I really care about, as opposed to feeling victimized, like most of us do as consumers in society, feeling disempowered. The classic idea of the little person who turns and takes power.
I even thought about it in terms of nature. We’re used to these ideas
of, for example, tigers or sharks as top predators in nature. But their populations are dwindling to nothing; there’s only two thousand or less left in the wild. Suddenly, a tiger becomes vulnerable, and we’re the predators.
I heard this amazing story from the San Francisco Zoo. About six years ago these two boys snuck in at night and had been teasing this tiger, Tatiana. And she jumped out of her enclosure and gobbled one of them up. She was shot the next morning, but she sort of turned and cut the world. She embodied this almost unbelievable self-empowerment and took an unexpected action and created an unexpected turn of events. That’s always how power shifts— the people who’ve long-been subjected, finally finding the power and unity and synchronicity and sense of common purpose enough to take action.
[Today] it’s almost inconceivable that we’re going to be able to shake this shitty system off its foundations, to create a new trajectory for ourselves as a species, in relation to nature. But that’s the idea of “Cut the World”— why not try? All we’ve got is legend to make of ourselves. The legends are being written, whether we try or not. We’re either a bunch of assholes who lay around, waiting for the inevitable to happen, while we indulge our every last tidbit of consumerism. Or we try to use the platforms available to us to at least shake things.
I tried to use all of the platforms available to me— in the media and within the work itself— to quite aggressively move forward an agenda I really care about, as opposed to feeling victimized, like most of us do as consumers in society, feeling disempowered. The classic idea of the little person who turns and takes power.
I even thought about it in terms of nature. We’re used to these ideas
of, for example, tigers or sharks as top predators in nature. But their populations are dwindling to nothing; there’s only two thousand or less left in the wild. Suddenly, a tiger becomes vulnerable, and we’re the predators.
I heard this amazing story from the San Francisco Zoo. About six years ago these two boys snuck in at night and had been teasing this tiger, Tatiana. And she jumped out of her enclosure and gobbled one of them up. She was shot the next morning, but she sort of turned and cut the world. She embodied this almost unbelievable self-empowerment and took an unexpected action and created an unexpected turn of events. That’s always how power shifts— the people who’ve long-been subjected, finally finding the power and unity and synchronicity and sense of common purpose enough to take action.
[Today] it’s almost inconceivable that we’re going to be able to shake this shitty system off its foundations, to create a new trajectory for ourselves as a species, in relation to nature. But that’s the idea of “Cut the World”— why not try? All we’ve got is legend to make of ourselves. The legends are being written, whether we try or not. We’re either a bunch of assholes who lay around, waiting for the inevitable to happen, while we indulge our every last tidbit of consumerism. Or we try to use the platforms available to us to at least shake things.
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