I am frustrated by ‘Occupation,’ I am frustrated by ‘Tactics,’ and I am angered daily by Inequity. The Occupation feels like it is in the postcolonial throes of agony, the artist’s ‘Tactics’ outmaneuvered, and Inequity rises beneath us, the very foundation of our social fabric.
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When it comes to Occupation topic there are many questions come to my mind. How one becomes interested in what one does throughout one’s life? Why one chooses a particular occupation in one’s life? Does occupation driven by one’s personality?
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How we individually or collectively think about inequality has a huge effect on our political views, but it also implicitly affects so many other aspects of our lives as members of society. It shapes our understanding of our social circles, our jobs, our schools, and countless other things, and it penetrates each of those institutions so deeply that it affects assumptions about how societies work that are so fundamental that we aren’t usually aware that they’re even assumptions.
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Where does the art cut into the possibility for engagement? And where does engagement lose its art? At the core is another question about art and activism, whether we will consider them as commensurate.
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I believe that provisionalism is a tactic utilized in many occasions such as rhetorical speeches, political campaigns and religious protests.
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Preceding the autumn of 2011, an occupation was one’s job. Even then the implications were different from say a career or “calling.” An occupation was something you did five to seven days a week. It paid bills and supported homes. I
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When I read the keyword “making” I was immediately struck with a handful of thoughts about what it means to make something in the artistic sense. I work mainly in the medium of digital media, and in watching my own processes as well as those of my peers, I have come to believe that making something is much more about giving than it is about objectively producing.
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I used to be a passive player; eyes glazed over as my thumbs twitched over red buttons. Other times were spent with family and friends, playing competitively and exchanging playful banter. Things really shifted when dial-up entered my household.
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What if we were all just shadows on a wall? Everybody is uniform. Everybody is just slightly defined, black massless creatures lurking in every corner and on every wall. Nothing hurts when we’re stuck on a wall. Life may not be particularly exciting, but it could be good, dancing around our light source.
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The first thing that comes to mind when most people hear the word “inequalities” is the growth income gap between rich and poor in our society. In the last three decades, the economy has been growing very slowly. However, income growth happened mostly at the top of the income scale. The share of total income of the top 1% jumped from 8.9% in 1976 to 23.5% in 2007. Yet in the same period, the real hourly wage declined by over 7%.
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