Søren Pold has written a text about Freedom, Equality and Hip Hop, which I am very grateful for.
When you feel a bit invisible, sit on the substitute bench, look after your child, watch the world drift past while you cancel things, turn things down, talk to the job centre, do everything less well than you wanted, cut down to the bone that soon will not be there, and wait wait wait wait, it is fairly remarkable that someone writes thoroughly, engaged and interested about what you do. Even when the hand stops working, there is a trace of the work out there, and a recipient or two who can use it for something.
Interest is the biggest gift you can get as an artist and perhaps just as a person, I think. And I suddenly feel a little less invisible and hidden away from the world. Like a useful part of something that supplements the small, close everyday life and care.
The text is called “Generative Alternatives: GenAI Realism from the Image Provinces in Kristoffer Ørum’s #freedomlibertyandhiphop” and is published in Open Library of Humanities. Pold reads the project as a counterfactual version of Danish and Nordic culture, where early hip-hop culture was taken up instead of austerity politics. He looks at how generative AI as a co-creator can be turned against its own built-in Anglo-American monoculture, and how that opens up room for critique and for thinking about the technology differently.
I talk and hold so many views myself that I am not the easiest person to write about. But that does not mean I am not curious about being read, also differently from how I read my own work.
Read it here: olh.openlibhums.org/article/i…
#frihedlighedoghiphop #freedomlibertyandhiphop
