The array of emotions through the human experience and the depth of those feelings can take a lifetime to process and another to make sense of. Even more ironically, for many of the most profound human emotions, from the unbridled love of youth to the mourning of an untimely death, our words fall flat. In Western society, the phrase “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” reigns oppressively true, and inhibits conversation around unattractively serious human emotions.  Modern society is designed to consider anything not regulated and properly idealized to be surreal and in opposition of an efficient society. However, denial of real life atrocities and human rights violations is no longer acceptable in a globalized world, and contemporary art provides an arena for action, a platform for relational art to emerge indiscriminately through political tension and catalyze change, providing new rethorics, and new ways of thinking about socio-political issues.

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