Submitted by Sean on
Port Of Saints Media believes that Art is the carrier of information that binds us. It is the most essential form of communication, it supercedes stock markets, bank takeovers, football matches, hyper-reality, virtual reality, commedians, political speeches (unless elevated to an art form), wars, town planning, ipods, facebook, business lunches, Armani suits, Kanye and Kim, Jay and Beyonce, terrorism, invasions, TV celebrities in a jungle, singing dogs, wailing cats, dancing fish, Charlie Fansbarnce, dead rock stars, physics, maths, space stations, super novas. . .
Art is the last thing you will see of a dying nation, the only thing that we leave by which, a thousand years into the future, others will come to know us. It says who we are not what we were. Art is situated in the primal extendable NOW. Right here and right now, no matter when or where you look at it, it always occupies the same space.
To forget Art is to forget that we are human, that others are human, that they have voices alongside ours that can speak of different things. Small unnoticed voices speaking from a distance, sometimes so far we may only gather a rumour of what they have said. But for there to be a trace left in the air, something has to be spoken, made, created, sung, played. Put your hand up so we can see you.