Garance Bonard, Do Artists Dance ?, 2023

« Pas d’intellect sans émotion, pas d’émotion sans son, ne regarde pas ta réflexion, regarde autour de toi.

Anger,

Frustration,

Exciting...

... That which is expected.

I wrote,

I thought,

I died into...

... Power relations.

Art world,

Knowledge,

Art forms…

I have always known, but nothing changes.

Of course not.

Why would it ?

So my guts, my practice… is not considered good enough because it is not art.

My music is not music.

Artists don’t dance. 

They think that music is male, white, intelligent and… above all, not danceable.

Because otherwise it belongs to the low culture, to the people and of course you do not belong to the people. 

Do you ?

You are an artist.

You do not dance. 

You want us to try and make you dance.

Just to show us that you won’t.

You want us in your surroundings because you are neoliberal enough to understand that it is trendy to be a DJ.

You do not believe in us.

We do.

Stay with your modular scene and your concrete music.

Stay with your lights and decide whether we get paid or not. 

It says a lot about you and it says a lot about us.

Thank you for giving me anger.

Thank you for make me feel like I do not belong to the art world.

Now I can burn my diploma and trust that I am worth it. »

Garance Bonard