The National Center of Dance will surely continue its activity in another form. This is obvious. But what interests me these days is “what’s the deal” with contemporary art today in these context and, especially, according to which conditions? A certain kind of public discourse asks for efficiency and profitability in all areas. The ‘assisted’ of any sort must in some way disappear or produce more profit. It’s one of the most present discourses today, it seems to be the only logic accepted officially in our strongly neoliberal society.
How should any artist refer to this new, depleted reality, which equates with standardized precariousness? Activism, autonomy, integration in the system, art for money, money for art, resistance through culture, anarchy, or are we intending to save ourselves aesthetically, again? Maybe we’ll just continue to be artists in any given conditions? Maybe the end of artists is near and it’s managers’ time now.
Manuel Pelmuș
