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Identity is how a person appears both to themselves and to others; it is a social vehicle, negotiating through traffic. Through it, we become "identifiable" to others who have similar tastes and values. It is no surprise that vanity license plates are such a big hit; how else do we appear to a vast majority of others but through our car? Identity coheres the fluctuations of a single being into the unity of the "individual." The down-side of identity is that it forces "assimilation;" society requires the repression of certain impulses and social interaction exacts a price. In order to have an identity you need, first of all, to be able to say what is "me" and what is "not me." No fence-sitting or whimping out is allowed, not if you really want to get somewhere with your identity. Hence the importance of "a look," the fashion equivalent of the symptom. Of course we all know that identity does not equal truth, no matter how hard you push the envelope and try to express yourself.1 (http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/RSG/pform38failure.html)
In the world of art there lies the classic artist dilemma: where does the private person end and the artist begin? Can what the we see in the art work be assumed to be the real life of the artist? The question of art/life is a hopeless conundrum, banked always on the echo your actions have on the symbolic [where you stand in the field of available representations and symbolic positions]. 2 (http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/RSG/pform38failure.html)
Marginality produces, marginality is a form of existence. (Malsch, Friedmann "Parallele Kunst"; Kunstforum Bd. 117)
Marginal is someone until he or she is invisible and misappropriated, after becoming visible and appropriated to art world, you just lose your marginal status by becoming successful. Yet there lies a question, if someone who has already been successful, loses that status , does he or she become marginal the other way round.
Marginal person is someone whoīs most dominating element is something different, some social chaos. Chaos can be produced consciously to break the boarders of life and art.
"There are artists, who get sick before they succeed and there are artists, who get sick after they succeed." (Reinhardt, Ad "44 Articles for Artists Under 45"; Taide 5, 1992)
"The more cancer disabled the artistsībodies, the stronger their vision, the sharper their focus." (http://www2.elibrary.com/ keyword: "disabled arist")
"Turnig pain into art is one step up..."(a poem by Cynthia Barber)
The story has two sides : being an artist who through himself produces something and making art as aesthetical activity. Activity can both be private and public. ("Marginalität und Erfolg"; Kunstforum Bd. 117) Art can therefore be made for artīs sake, for artistīs sake, for careerīs sake, for businessīsake etc.
"Save art from the artists. There is no business like no business." (Reinhardt, Ad "44 Articles for Artists Under 45"; Taide 5, 1992)
Art can be made to compensate social conflicts. Social conflicts can be produced to become an artist. Marginality can be made to move to the margin of the sphere of activity, to undervalue, to depriciate.
Marginality has become the way of replacing art and art life itself. Marginality has become the password for the admission of texts and authors into the curriculum. Margin can be searched as a moral shelter for someoneīs creative activity.
Nowadays, in a period of absolut mediating and era of global multicultural communication, in "global village" the problem of marginality has changed, the forms of marginal art have integrated into officially accepted art life. The criterias and scales of marginality are not circumstantially defined.
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