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What I wished most ardently for myself at a certain stage of my work was that I might find my voice where I had found my vision....Artistic forms are not static. Nor are they radicalised by aesthetes and intellectuals. They are changed, shifted, detonated into deeper patterns only by the sufferings and self-deceptions of those who use them.
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“How can one not bear witness to terrible things? Isn’t that self-indulgent?”
When you say ‘witness to terrible things’, what is your focus? empathy for victims? authenticity of the terrible things? for me, these are very dangerous territories for artists especially writers. In the age we live in, multiple and various narratives of violence are beamed straight to our screens – we are too familiar with home as well as foreign violence – the brutal obscenities of our age. The weight of authentic representations/recounts/narratives very easily close down responses because it doesn’t lead to thought; it is just an impotent (though earnest) addition to what we already know and see and hear. Yes, empathy has to be there but that is not enough. That familiar ‘terrible things’ have to be made strange so that we can go beyond uncomplicated empathy and make ourselves think actively. For me, it is not about bearing witness to terrible things; it is about imagining terrible things on my own terms. It is not self-indulgent; it is necessary investigation. Like Howard Barker said – ‘I trust my imagination, I don’t value my opinions.’ He was not being glib when he said that. He was expressing a deeply philosophical stance of an uncompromising writer. Our age needs imagination; opinions are a dime a dozen.
@Swar: I agree with you about much of this. I’m not sure that the need for just bearing witness is altogether obsolete though. I’m thinking of protest poetry and the role it plays in certain places, among certain groups. I agree that most opinions are a dime a dozen–but some may be less heard than others? But you’re right. My problem with this sort of poetry is that often it ends up being quite simplistic. But I’m wondering — that may be the exactly the thing that makes it successful as protest?