#to cross disciplinary boundaries or go into the community/do educational outreach to ACTUALLY deconstruct those spaces

[sanstropfremir]

OMGGG the backhanded art comment 💀🤡 I wanted to say thank you sooo much for adding your input because comments like that are the reason why I have the urge to rip my hair out everytime I enter the comment section of an MV/Dance Practice like wdym "it's not dance, it's art" ?? what did you think dance was??? How little do you care about dance then?? You're literally the first person I know to address it which was kind of unexpected but very much needed (Sorry if you can feel the frustration radiating of this ask, but that's how much I despise it)

kljlkjflkjflksda well i did go to a very prestigious art school so i do have the experience to back up my backhandedness. i have to thank @exo-s-victory-lap first bc if they hadn't posted that comment on the birthday dance practice i wouldn't have said anything, bc i never read the comments on any kpop-related videos as i don't need the headache. but you're right it is a thing that very few people talk about, mostly because like i said, there's a mass lack of education around the different types of 'art' beyond painting and sculpture, and what even is 'qualified' to be called art in the first place. to be honest dance gets the most of this pseudo-'complimentary' offensive garbage because the average person in the west just does not interact with dance as an artform like, at all. the most common types of dance at the moment are street dance based/whatever shows up on tiktok and they've become so ubiquitous that people have ceased to see it as a skill and connect it to being worthy of being called 'art'. the convention of what constitutes 'art' in a lot of the general public's eyes is western eurocentric forms that have 'historical' backing, but only those that have been approved by the 'elite' as the ones acceptable. and very very few forms of dance have made that cut, so relatively few people recognize it as such.

#no one is calling pantos art and those things are old as fucking time lol. well not that old. but they are a very old form of anglo theatre #the other thing about street dance is that it was invented by black people! and god forbid anything black people do is artistic!!!!! #as someone who went to an art school where they do high concept contemporary art/the stuff that you see in contemporary galleries/museums: #the whole industry moves like fucking white supremacy and relies on the supression of 'lesser' forms in order to keep the industry running #sometimes there's actual white supremacy. sometimes there isn't. but the structure is exactly the same #there's always artists that say they want to 'deconstruct the white cube space' etc etc etc but very rarely do they actually make an effort #to cross disciplinary boundaries or go into the community/do educational outreach to ACTUALLY deconstruct those spaces #because if they actually did that it would make the entire concept of their practice pointless #the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house!!!!!!!! #n e ways. dont go to art school #text #kpop questions #answers #also there's a bias against kpop in general bc of the branding that's been pushed by western media that it's 'manufactured' #and idols themselves aren't artists bc theyre not 'making the work themselves' #which is a further pushing of the monolith artist narrative #also kr media is super guilty of this too. idols are on a really low rung on the 'artistic' ladder #so a lot of these types of comments from fans come from the desire to 'prove' that idols are worthy of making art #but they end up being insults bc kpoppies are dreadfully offensively and tragically uninformed #jokes on them the whole industry's been making art this whole time! just most of it is bad!