Saturday, February 1, 2020

Art and the Alt-Right [Nicolas Hopkin]

We've decided to focus our energy against the Alt-Right, a complicated and multifaceted identity based in hate, ignorance, and fragile entitlement. At our current point in time we're focusing on how their rhetoric polarizes the right and left even more, making progress more and more difficult.







Both of the examples of art revolving around similar subjects I've found here take a very grunge-punk aesthetic, as well as ridiculing their leaders/symbols. I think this informs our process as the goal we're seeking is to not continue to push the alt right deeper into their dens of hate. We're trying to find a way to make a piece that doesn't forgive or sympathize with alt-right ideas, but that asks the question of how can we change their mind, and if we can't then how do we address the spread of their message? We know that's a bit of a large ask, but we're continually refining our ideas. I suppose its the rehabilitate over punishment method of thinking we're trying to foster.

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