Art(ist) Statement

Never in another time has there been more stuff on the anthropocenic-Earth than now. Products/works/pieces of discourse and imagination are both being created and being discovered at an exponential rate (until a global catastrophe happens). I want to formulate an answer to a challenge presented by this dilemma; what "things" should one know? Our mortality limits the amount of things we will know in our lifetime, so what things should we give life's quantity to? This question leads to several others:

• What makes a thing that provokes thought something worth turning our attention to? What is this "worth"? Is it love? Pleasure? Truth? Novelty? Can a thing be given credence of worth if the thing does not explicitly have what we are longing for, such as if the thing's worth is found in the intention of the thing's creator?


• If a creator is evaluated to be a "bad person", how does their supposed "badness" affect the things they make? What should we do then?


• If a creator is accused or found to be a liar or an idiot, how do we interpet the value of their intellectual production? How should we approach things we encounter that may not be truthful?


• How can the quality of intellectual input, process, and output be improved?


• When should we turn to things of purely intellectual matters with minimal or absent practicality if our material life's matters urgently require our attention?


• If the desired effect of an intellectual thing is to proliferate itself, how can we make the thing affect the world the way we want, outside of getting people to watch it?


• If posssible, how do we make the distribution of intellectual things "fair"? How do we make them accessible? How do we make creativity an economically sustainable occupation?


• When does an intellectual thing become an overblown string of symbols? When does it become near-impossibly understandable? How do we balance between the digestability and the ambition in a piece of creative content? How do we balance the world of being and the world of symbols?


• What is praxis, and when should one do praxis?


• What's the use of all that I mention?

The stuff of life:

• What is love, if it exists?


• What is the nature of biological life?


• How do we make a safe, fair, free, and just society/condition-of-living? How do we attain it?


• How do we spread consciousness of socioeconomic conflict and stratification?


• What is justice? How do we live in spite of unjust systems? How do we deal with injustice?


• When is ending someone's life ethical?


• What is the nature of the unknown (such as death or any other reality beyond our preconceptions)?


• Do we have free will? Can we even understand our own will?


• Is it possible to fully understand another person? How do we trust them?


• Is there a purpose to the universe and everything within it other than existing for its own sake?


• Where is life outside our planet? How do we connect to them?


• What is intellect and idiocy?


• Are there such things as irredeemable actions?


• What is change? What does it mean for a person to be changed?


• Is there a God?


• Is there an unconscious/subconscious part to ourselves?


• What are dreams? What is thought, if it exists? What if not?


• What is gender and sexuality?


• What is schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? What is insanity?


• What is anxiety, despair, sadness, and "to feel nothing"?


• What is schadenfreude? What is sadism?


• How can we trust certain scientists/mathematicians or not?


• How deep is the divide between ethnicities and genders?


• What makes something aesthetically (un)pleasing?


• What is ego and the lack of it?


• What is time?


• How do brains "think"? How does it process reality? What do the effects of psychoactive drugs say about it?


• What is comedy?

My wheelhouses/enthusiasms:

• Slow Cinema


• Magical Realism


• Surrealism


• Revenge Stories


• Mysteries


• Hard science fiction


• Post(-post)-modernity and Post-antiquity


• Social realism


• Cross-cultural narratives and the lives of people that are a part of globally-marginalized ethnicities

Meta:

• What is the internet/telecommunications to us? What are screens, sounds, and recordings to us?


• What are the limits of visual/audible/calligraphic arts? What is the cutting edge theory of visual/sound studies/culture?


• When should we create "content" for expressive reasons?


• When does a story become melodramatic or boring? When is it necessary/redundant for it to be made? When is a thought/idea/style "immature"?


• How do we make art/writing accessible? How do we educate it to wider consciousness? How do we improve the industries/markets for art/writing?


• How much should we know about literary/media theory?


• What makes people watch movies? Read books? Not intake any media at all?


• How do we make our consumption of creative things diverse enough to have "a full perspective"?


• How do we deal with english-language hegemony? How do we preserve indigenous languages and the cultures attached with them?


• What is "the nature" of logographic language/symbolism (Chinese, in my case) as opposed to alphabetic/syllabic language/symbolism?


• How do we act/roleplay?

My personal touches:

• Mental and physical disabilities (Chronic health issues, autism)


• Overthinking


• Obsessive-compulsions and anxious disorders


• All types of abuse against all sorts of living things


• Shame, guilt, regret, and the difference between them


• Self-hatred and self-harm


• Unawareness


• Uniqueness and commonality


• (In)Sincerity


• Online relationships and the wider internet world


• Misunderstandings and flaws in communication


• The concept of cringe and patheticness


• Normalcy


• Self-destruction/inhibition


• Filthiness


• The uncontrollable, imperfect nature of anger


• The expendability of life in history and of civilization


• Obscurization of less-prominent ethnic cultures


• The maladaptive tendency to make labels and ideologies your identity, and the overinsistence on your existence as being a part of the identity


• "Brainrot" and soulrot of all sorts


• The imperfections everyone may have and how it alienates from connection


• Disturbing desires/knowledge and trying to live a normal life in spite of them


• Boredom and to be boring


• Aging, maturity, and fulfillment with them


• "Missing out"