@Felice wrote:
Definitely important points, which should actually be obvious to everybody who wants to work with these questions. But what is the reason to engage in artistic reflection in the first place? (money, money? –Maybe if you make a large scale paper boat at the Venice Biennale). In relation to this I would like to point out that NGOs (referring to RISE) working with refugees can’t monopolize the question. Because it affects us all and therefore will naturally be a subject of art. Maybe they just don’t see the meaning of art or artistic process, this doesn’t necessarily make the artist guilty of the charges described. And why throw suspicion on artists in the first place? They are part of keeping topics alive and rising new ones, more differentiated than the media machinery can produce?