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The psychology of Jon Rafman

We take apart and review the morality and psychology in the work of artists Jon Rafman and Anna Uddenberg, who are exhibiting in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. It's a critical psychological portrait of a certain artistic and ideological tendency. This tendency is an example of how people generalise in order to see meaning, drama, depth and to be interesting. We talk about Marx and alienation and the idea that the world needs to be saved from this. It's about how people, ideologies, art-movements make themselves 'relevant' by identifying root causes for problems in society. Notwithstanding that these ideas are just fantasies. We also suggest that contemporary artists are more regressive and conservative then ever. Pointing at sex and freedom and unbounded individualism as the source of our problems, they behave like a kind of Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who is concerned with how to manipulate and discipline a horrible, irresponsible, weak mass of people.

English
  • Originally Aired October 10, 2016
  • Runtime 16 minutes
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