Page 7 - November 2020

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Litterateur
November 2020

Doue'e

Over the past decades we have witnessed two concomitant phenomena: on
the one hand a ’democratic’ opening based on technological development
that has enabled many people to escape erasure by gatekeepers; arts such as
photography, graphics, even video and writing became accessible as artistic
media for the ‘masses’ giving rise, on a world scale, to a blooming and
proliferation of initiatives, creative artistic production from below capable of
reaching scattered audiences (a greater number of people if money comes
into the mix). The very possibility of me writing this column on an Indian
digital magazine hinges on this development. But, on the other hand, the
undesirable, underside of this is that the ‘democratic technological opening’
has taken place in a setting of unbridled neo-liberal global capitalism and it
bears the ugly marks of extreme individualism, hierarchy and competition,
which obscure the fact that even individual talents are predicated on a whole

system that nurtures, inspires, hinders, limits and supports them.

Pina when she was in
first grade in Genoa

During last yeaar of high school

In her apartment
in Berkeley,
during university