Jeremy Deller In Venice
30. 8. 2013 // Stewart Home // Kategorie Randnotizen 2013
“The British governments censoring of Jeremy Deller’s hypergraphic Harry Kills Me at the 2013 Venice Biennale – which referred to Prince Harry’s role as an officer in the British army in Afghanistan as well as his shooting of endangered hen harriers on one of his family estates, as well as the fact that he is a seriously unfunny little fuck – can show us, besides the snivelling servitude of Deller and the bureaucrats of the British Council, some ways that art functions today.
“The actions of the British Council first show how not just politics but art too is a continuation of war by other means. The passive reaction and collusion of the press in the UK shows how censorship is art made not tongue-tied but triumphant. Meaning is constructed by what is occulted not revealed. The collusion then of the artist who is quoted as being happy with the censorship shows how even the bourgeoisie have come to agree that art for arts sake is just another piece of deodorised dogshit.”