Maori artists and the London art agent

As told 6

“They had one agent in London, one in New York which informed them what are the latest trends. And then they made sure that the spirits told them something that fitted the latest fashion.”
9:59 Hegel, Modern Art and the End of Art2015-04-07 · 2:06:35

“their mountain spirits started to tell them to paint this”
59:15 Nomadic proletarians? No, thanks!2019-04-30 · 2:02:12

“they have an agent in New York who tells them what is the latest fashion... they take good care that the mountain tells them this”
56:31 The Rise of New Obscene Masters2020-01-22 · 1:34:44

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

absolute total subsumption under capital ×1 cultural capitalism ×1 progressive racism ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Amy Goodman2 Mel Gibson3 Niklas Luhmann2 Franco Zeffirelli2 Roman Polanski2 Stathis Kouvélakis1 Sergei Parajanov1 Tavis Smiley1

alongside works

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner4 Jesus of Nazareth2 The Passion of the Christ2 The Need to Censor Our Dreams1 The Ghost (The Ghost Writer)1 Psychoanalyser (To Psychoanalyze)1 Moses and Monotheism1 Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources1

Told together with

19% Apartheid justified in multiculturalist terms 3 shared talks 13% Afghanistan: from secular to fundamentalist 2 shared talks 7% Native Americans prefer 'Indians' 2 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks 4% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks

Every retelling 6

9:59 Hegel, Modern Art and the End of Art2015-04-07 · 2:06:35

Žižek's New Zealand Maori artist friends initially gave him the official line about spirits dictating their art; over dinner they revealed they had agents in London and New York tracking trends to ensure the spirits told them something fashionable. Žižek celebrates this as the right relationship to one's cultural tradition., illustrating cultural authenticity,ideology,cultural tradition as living process

59:15 Nomadic proletarians? No, thanks!2019-04-30 · 2:02:12

New Zealand Maori painters first told Žižek they paint what the mountain spirits tell them; once he got to know them they admitted they had an agent in New York who told them what was fashionable, and their mountain spirits suddenly started dictating exactly that (religious sex)., illustrating total subsumption,cultural capitalism,authenticity ideology

56:31 The Rise of New Obscene Masters2020-01-22 · 1:34:44

Maori painters told Žižek they listen to the mountain for permission before painting. When he got friendly with them they revealed they had a New York agent who told them current artistic fashions and they made sure the mountain 'told' them exactly that fashion. Illustrates that minorities are not authentic primitives but full modern agents., illustrating liberal racism,patronising multiculturalism,authenticity

1:34:04 Radical Politics Today: Hegel’s Teaching2015-07-25 · 1:48:48

Indigenous New Zealand artists publicly perform communion with nature spirits, but privately have two agents in London and New York ensuring that what 'nature tells them' aligns with the latest art-world trends, illustrating how exotic authenticity is a marketable performance., illustrating ideology / authenticity as commodity,class dimension of political correctness

27:26 More Alienation and the Cultural Violence2015 · 1:53:45

Maori artists initially told Žižek they resist technological civilization and follow ancestral spirits; in private they revealed they have agents in New York and London who track art market trends, which they then translate into instructions from the spirits., illustrating performativity of authentic culture,market integration of cultural identity

44:13 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

Maori visual artists initially gave Žižek the standard line about spirits and anti-imperialism, then revealed they have agents in New York and Paris who track fashion and they adapt their 'spirit talk' accordingly, debunking the myth of naive Aboriginal sincerity., illustrating primitivism and cultural authenticity,inverted racism