DYSFUNCTION [fr. dysfonction]

Dysfunction is a state where a function doesn’t execute properly.
If civil society is a function of human interaction, the dysfunction of human action produces a deficient civil society.
Civil society is a complicated mechanism under constant immense pressure of daily, uninterrupted, and not always caring use.
Therefore it shouldn’t be of no surprise if this mechanism doesn’t always function as intended.
The mechanism gets dysfunctional.
For to avoid this, society has employed social engineers (typically academics, politicians, government clercs) to maintain, restore, and regulate the mechanisms of human interaction.
The problem with social engineering is that the engineers are themselves human and as such part of the mechanism they maintain, restore and regulate.
To observe the mechanism from without means that the observing subject has to cease being human.
The observer has to de-humanize the perception apparatus.
In so becoming a perception apparatus without body and without mind.
A thermometer.
An ophthalmotrope.
A pointing device.
Or something different.
The Emergency Artist is an observation-as-such.
But this might be too theoretic.
Anyway.
This is the function of Emergency Art.
The Emergency Artist as thermometer is thus an kind of pictorial therapist.
An ultra fast and dangerous diagnostic.
A poisonous messanger.
The Emergency Artist as ophthalmotrope is a precise observer of the social and political circulation of images.
Identifying visual dysfunctions.
The Emergency Artist as pointing device is a aesthetic cop.
Arresting abusive representations of reality.
Justice is not self-justice.
Emergency art is a public institution.
Emergency art is social service.