O conjunto de entrevistas agora iniciado, para o programa Molduras – Antena 2, RTP, centra-se no campo da prática artística contemporânea neste período da globalização e nos dilemas do paradigma actual. Esta série de entrevistas consiste numa única questão, colocada a artistas contemporâneos, nacionais e internacionais, sobre como estes testam as condições políticas, em particular as estruturas económicas. Ou seja, de que forma é que a prática artística corrente informa sobre os processos de globalização, e durante o processo transforma e faz visível as condições políticas da sociedade contemporânea.
RGC: In which way do you think 'conflict' is controlled and informs in your work?
CKT: Well this work was borne out of an incredibly conflicted situation, as was I for that matter. I was born in London in 1979 after my parents fled escalating conflict within Sri Lanka. The ensuing civil war ended brutally in 2009 as the Sri Lankan government leveraged international interests to comprehensively defeat the Tamil Tigers. Now, as the North and East of the island is about to be sold off to the international backers of Sri Lanka’s genocide, the economy is booming and with it a new context of Contemporary Art has emerged. The capital Colombo’s first Western-style commercial galleries have very quickly established Contemporary Art – as in the West – as the highest benchmark of connoisseurial consumerism in what is now one of the world’s fastest growing small economies. My response to this is the ongoing enterprise When Platitudes Become Form, whereby I reconfigure, for the Western art market, artworks by some of Sri Lanka’s most celebrated young artists. This radical re-marketing of the island’s contemporary art raises funds to resist the oppression of communities displaced by civil war, channelling resources that are not under government control to the formerly Tamil-occupied territories of the North and East of the country.
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