EMERGENCY ARTIST [fr. artiste d’urgence]

An Emergency Artist is an artist taking part in the Emergency Room.
It is an artist that believe that there is a state of emergency.
In a state of emergency, it is paramount that the artist of today is precise and on time.
Therefore is an emergency artist training and preparing his 10 percent of the time.
An artist giving some of his time to point at dysfunctions and communicate those to the public.
An artist in immediate permanent connection with his surrounding.
An artist feeling part of civic society.
An Emergency Artist is not primarily interested in selling his stock of works.
An Emergency Artist works within the concept of today.
An Emergency Artist does not bring items from the stock to the Emergency Room.
An Emergency Room is no flea market, it is a space for urgent art.
Ironically, “contemporary” art institutions work directly against this idea of artistic urgency, but insist in treating art as if it were objects for sale or a shop like a flea market.
The institution is delaying the artist by not giving him a immediate platform.
Without a plattform the artist cannot express.
And this is the fault of the institution.
An artist who is working today has very limited opportunities to exhibit her work as a truly contemporary work.
The exhibitions of the art institutions have since long been scheduled, and there is no room or space for an urgent work of art.
The institutions are way to slow for a fast working artist.
On the other hand, one can’t really criticize the museum for having slow reflexes.
After all, the museum has always been for the dead, in which the fixed gazes stares blindly.
But one could criticize the sea of contemporary institutions, which pop up all over the world, for copying the glaring blindness produced in the museum.
Contemporary institutions do have an obligation to be able to react (today!) to artistic expressions of urgency.
Rarely do contemporary institutions understand this idea.
Instead they want to remain “museums of potential art”.