The shutdown came just days after the entire official jury resigned, plunging the world's most prestigious art exhibition into it's deepest institutional crisis in decades.
"...a large part of the cultural sector stopped accepting the premise that art institutions can remain neutral in the face of genocide and ethnic-cleansing."
I hope so, because 'neutral' in this context can only be understood, at best, as institutionalized indifference manufacturing consent for impunity for violations of international and national laws and the crime of all crimes.
James Baldwin 'Conversations': "Those who tell you “Do not put too much politics in your art” are not being honest. If you look very carefully you will see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation as it is… What they are saying is don’t upset the system."
As Ahmed Edlin mention about the relation of art and culture with dark enterprises/NGOs/governments/corporations/personalities as sponsors, the "normality" (or normalization) today is in question, and this is a wonderful sign: dependency build bias, and art and culture -so precarized historically- became an article and a tool for political manipulation/propaganda/whitewashing/brainwashing/normalization. Today, as so many things as the predatory, supremacist, manipulative and genocidal core of zionism, the nature of this relation between culture/art and power institutions and putrid billionaires is exposed to to more and more people in proces to awake to the real world: so many illussions are vanishing, and even when depression and desperation come, it is a very important face of the process to empower ourself as societys and as HUMANITY.
Venice was the place were the "empire in the shadows" began to operate in a more organic way poisoning Europe and the East, England and step to step the World. The Biennale has this Karma from its origin, and it was clearly a tool for dominance: culture IS narative, you control the homologation of what is consider a high expression of Art, you sculpt the mind of the people.
The globalistic ad transhumanistic Agenda has Art as one of the main targets: so many "artists" in the world only are searching for money to do what the sponsors propose ... this is control and dominance, and we know perfectly the consequences.
If you castrate Art, you push people into a castrated model of society and citizen: no more wildeness, no more authenticity, no more dissidence or questioning. Art is twisted in its most degenerate version. Clearly Art is Politic, and I am not speaking about panfletarian art. Life is Politic too. There are not such a thing as Neutrality: the position you choose is political. To be "apolitical" is a lie, is a cultural product sold specially to the young generations. Reel your mind, be an apolitical zombie ... but cool in your appereance ("cool" menas different things depending with which "societal box" you are identified or you were through out). But please, use the only tunels the power gave you to be "rebel": the others will imply obviously that you will be punished to dare to confront the "Power" (the Regime, the ones behind the regimes, "the order", the status quo).
What is happening with the Venice Biennale is a very healthy action, perhaps a new way for start liberating the art "production", the artists and find new ways for promotion of art and cultural production.
Gaza is liberating us, the people, with the blood of its martyrs.
Palestine is a horizon of another possible world to be reconstruct (not the Board of Peace shit, please), Iran and Hezbollah and Yemen are doing their contribution to impulse this new world.
I hope you are right. There is no neutrality when it comes to genocide or apartheid. And there never has been.
Let's hope that the dissent of art consumers will move that highly volatile and corruptible red line even more towards ... us.
"...a large part of the cultural sector stopped accepting the premise that art institutions can remain neutral in the face of genocide and ethnic-cleansing."
I hope so, because 'neutral' in this context can only be understood, at best, as institutionalized indifference manufacturing consent for impunity for violations of international and national laws and the crime of all crimes.
James Baldwin 'Conversations': "Those who tell you “Do not put too much politics in your art” are not being honest. If you look very carefully you will see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation as it is… What they are saying is don’t upset the system."
Genocide must be a red line for everyone and every institution
Toppling like little dominoes! The people have had enough. This insane world has just got to stop and reset. For humanity and stability for everyone.
🙏🏽
As Ahmed Edlin mention about the relation of art and culture with dark enterprises/NGOs/governments/corporations/personalities as sponsors, the "normality" (or normalization) today is in question, and this is a wonderful sign: dependency build bias, and art and culture -so precarized historically- became an article and a tool for political manipulation/propaganda/whitewashing/brainwashing/normalization. Today, as so many things as the predatory, supremacist, manipulative and genocidal core of zionism, the nature of this relation between culture/art and power institutions and putrid billionaires is exposed to to more and more people in proces to awake to the real world: so many illussions are vanishing, and even when depression and desperation come, it is a very important face of the process to empower ourself as societys and as HUMANITY.
Venice was the place were the "empire in the shadows" began to operate in a more organic way poisoning Europe and the East, England and step to step the World. The Biennale has this Karma from its origin, and it was clearly a tool for dominance: culture IS narative, you control the homologation of what is consider a high expression of Art, you sculpt the mind of the people.
The globalistic ad transhumanistic Agenda has Art as one of the main targets: so many "artists" in the world only are searching for money to do what the sponsors propose ... this is control and dominance, and we know perfectly the consequences.
If you castrate Art, you push people into a castrated model of society and citizen: no more wildeness, no more authenticity, no more dissidence or questioning. Art is twisted in its most degenerate version. Clearly Art is Politic, and I am not speaking about panfletarian art. Life is Politic too. There are not such a thing as Neutrality: the position you choose is political. To be "apolitical" is a lie, is a cultural product sold specially to the young generations. Reel your mind, be an apolitical zombie ... but cool in your appereance ("cool" menas different things depending with which "societal box" you are identified or you were through out). But please, use the only tunels the power gave you to be "rebel": the others will imply obviously that you will be punished to dare to confront the "Power" (the Regime, the ones behind the regimes, "the order", the status quo).
What is happening with the Venice Biennale is a very healthy action, perhaps a new way for start liberating the art "production", the artists and find new ways for promotion of art and cultural production.
Gaza is liberating us, the people, with the blood of its martyrs.
Palestine is a horizon of another possible world to be reconstruct (not the Board of Peace shit, please), Iran and Hezbollah and Yemen are doing their contribution to impulse this new world.
And we ? Are we doing enough for the future ?
A most powerful reply.
May they protest the participation of the USA as well.
Art is not, nor has it ever been, neutral.
Thank you for your coverage.
About time.
Grand!
you may also want to listen here to a short speech "on staying neutral" : https://www.angryandfearless.org/podcasts/
Why do these institutions insist on supporting a genocide state??
It's the status quo especially in the 'west' - cf.: colonialism
"how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimised Israel’s illegal presence and actions"
Source: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteurs-report-exposes
I mean, not good but shouldn’t need to happen. The time for this salonisation of art is surely over by now.
I was there and It was powerfull ❤️🔥
It appears that Israel might have won with the Epstein files alone, but they cannot stop the killing the innocents in real time and live on tv.
Israel is evil
got to reckon with genocide sometime…