Last day of ima’s peace
walk in solidarity with Women Wage Peace’s Journey To Peace.
17th day
of ima's peace walk in full solidarity with Women Wage Peace's Journey
To Peace. Last day today. In the Guardian (5.10.2017, page 14) journalist Nell
Frizzell asks well known artists what's the biggest
issue facing artists today.
Performance artist Marina Abramovic said:
'For me it is the question of morality. I think it's not enough for artists to make work, and to show that to the public. We also have to see ourselves as human beings; to ask what can we do in the world, which is really in the biggest crisis it has ever been in. As a human being, how can you help on a human level? It's a crisis in every possible form. Human beings suffer everywhere in the world. It's the increasing natural disasters, which have never been so frequent; hunger; the movement of large populations of people; the people who run the government. Just doing art, being in the studio, is not enough. You have to think about what you can do as a human being.'
I agree. My heart goes
to the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian long conflict. But out of this
bottomless sadness comes the strong voices of Women Wage Peace. Only political
agreements will end the cycle of violence!
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