🤡art is not content 🤮
my desktop sticky notes to remind me and you that art is not content. Also tree.fm which is maybe my fav website ever?Â
art is not content
Hi sweet beings, how are your feelings doing? what you tended to them today?Â
I hate the word content. It grosses me out, and while I was making coffee the other day the podcast I was listening to referenced art on social media as content and I LOST MY MIND.Â
The funny thing about being triggered by a word while making a cup of coffee, is that it is not the words fault, that all of the sudden angry, or the person saying the words fault. It's my issue. So after I finished making my coffee I sat down and asked myself why is it that I hate the word "content" so much?
I worked in marketing for years and I heard that word 39040 times a day. Marketers look at content as a byproduct of your creation/brand/smarts. And maybe for some people the things they post on social media is content. And that can be true for them.Â
But I hate it for artists. I hate it for creators for people that are really making something beautiful, thoughtful, educational, smart, engaging for your mind's eye. Why chalk up your sweet smarts to a byproduct of your brain/brand/whatever?Â
The commodification of creative expression to equal likes/shares/value as a human being is the worst thing capitalism has done to the art world and I am staging a protest.Â
ART IS NOT CONTENT!Â
Art is not about the individual or ego or brand. Art is about the connection of community. Art isn't ME, it's WE! Art It is about that magic brain juice spilling out of your ears and sharing it together. Art is not content!Â
Things I have made to share with you so you can also make art and share it together, as one. (AKA Freak Clown Launch) 🤡
Please make your art, it is important, we need it, I love you.Â
xx
phoebe
p.s
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