Avant Museology: Hito Steyerl

A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War
A tank on a pedestal. Fumes are rising from the engine. A Soviet battle tank- called IS-3 for Joseph Stalin-is being repurposed by a group of pro-Russian separatists in Konstantinovka, Eastern Ukraine. It is driven off a WWII memorial pedestal and promptly goes to war. According to a local militia, it “attacked a checkpoint in Ulyanovka, Krasnoarmeysk district, resulting in three dead and three wounded on the Ukrainian side, and no losses on our side.”
One might think that the active historical role of a tank would be over once it became part of a historical display. But this pedestal seems to have acted as temporary storage from which the tank could be redeployed directly into battle. Apparently, the way into the museum-or even into history itself-is not a one-way street. Is the museum a garage? An arsenal? Is a monument pedestal actually a military base?

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I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with BBuzzArt's "Agnes," the art intelligence engine? Basically it's AI that suggests "a perfect selection of stunning artworks" thus removing human curation presenting a stasis loop of pseudo artistic discovery, exactly what Steyerl fears in this video, absolutely terrifying.

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I would like to share another thought about the scene in the movie "Children of Men" when the Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" is shown. The painting which I had the privilege to admire whilst living in Madrid right next the Reina Sofia, that pictures the suffering of the Basque population of Guernica caused by the ruthless attack perpetrated by Nazists and Fascists guided by the future dictator Franco, is a trophy regained by Neo-liberalism which masks a new version of fascism and is hidden on the wall of a dining room to conceals its messages from a potential resurrection of the spirit of rebellion and revolution against power which has kidnapped the icons of freedom and rebellion.

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Brain melt with love

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With the tank, please add a rubber slipper, to mark the thousands of immigrants who died, sunk in the Meditarranean Sea.