atrocityarts

“The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century – sex and paranoia…In a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing with how we use and exploit each other, in the most urgent and ruthless way.” -J.G. Ballard

I understood this to be true at an early, early age. Too early. And so I happily make my life’s work about joy, community, and connectivity without the dollop of inane illusion. I am a “theater of the real” kind of woman, and atrocityarts is an extension of how I move about in this world on a day to day basis.