Be my guest. I prefer to keep the door closed. A task for poetry#

A task for poetry #1

The worth of ´autonomous visual capacities´ and ´inherent value of art´ is still spread by its literal words. Many put it forth bluntly, cherishing the sentiments attached or the aura it provides. Meanwhile, the exact parameters of their presence have hardly been tested, nor have these parameters been shared in-depth with the audience of art. Onomatopee believes that we need to reason with the voices of our visual culture, and considers creative practices to be design practices, since they revolve around motives and means. I´ve always been fascinated by the rhetorical strength of ´The Poetic Momentum´: the moment one is supposed to undergo when confronted by an artwork, when overwhelmed by sentiments and sublime grasps. Still, this notion has never before been so obsolete. We´re living in an information age; we know how information works. We cannot just think visual data is there for God´s sake. Still God´s sake is present when we start positioning ourselves within our visual surrounding. This moment is often described as poetic.

In order to maintain the richness of the cultural capital acquired over the last decades, we should at least define its parameters!