I just read her brief essay on the Chelsea hotel. Are we all voyeurs if we follow the artistic lifestyles in minute detail, hoping to piece it all together to make sense of our world today? By visiting or writing about Chelsea, are we hoping to incorporate our own bohemian desires into a dirty hotel, and imagine that it's 1968 again and we're about to change the world by indulging in all hedonism and sex?
And if not, if we're sadly in another culture now, what is the use of art now, what changes are desperately needed in our society that can be solved by art? If we aren't saving or changing the world when we drink, have free sex, make music and film our best friends on camera at ultra slow frame rates for hours on end, what are we doing? We're certainly not changing the world by buying shit, eating out at dinner and waiting for our vacations.
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