Kirill Serebrennikov

Kirill Serebrennikov Instagram – What should art be like during times of world wars? Should it be like: “When guns speak, music goes silent?” Or should it be an endless commemoration of the dead, like what the great Victor Melamed @oldoldanimal does, drawing portraits of killed Ukrainians and Israelis every day, so that everyone understands that behind the numbers of the dead are individual people with faces? How can one resist the lies of propaganda, the endless information fakes that are thrown out to further stoke the fires of hatred? What can art do to prevent people from becoming accustomed to war, to ensure that it doesn’t become the norm of life?..This is what I think about all the time, and all the years of war in Ukraine and all the days of terrorist attacks in Israel – about the crisis of the idea of humanism. Or even about forgetting this idea. It seems simple – the entire world order should be built around the life, prosperity, and development of humanity. Any human being. Regardless of nationality or religion. Civilization is needed to provide education to those who lack it, food to those who have little, and housing to those whose homes have been destroyed by natural disasters. Civilization is needed to improve the life of EVERY human being. And not to turn it into hell. Civilization is needed to rectify its own failures and mistakes: to stop the catastrophic melting of ice, to increase the amount of drinking water where it has run out. It is needed to destroy an asteroid if it threatens Earth. Civilization is needed to help people who will soon face catastrophic changes in living conditions in climate change-affected areas, future climate refugees. Civilization is needed to combat diseases, viruses, and the consequences of industrial revolutions… And not for killing. That’s it. There are no ideas or concepts for which one can kill another human being. None. We have forgotten about that again. | Posted on 22/Oct/2023 14:58:00