However, already at this point I need to hesitate because, firstly,'free has a hollow ring and, secondly, the concept freedom has a demagogic side. This was, among other things, the freedom for some people to behead some other people. When freedom was invented, it was equipped with numerous, much more subtle subtexts than the one I mentioned above. They constitute the sides of freedom which are still uncharted, and what characterizes them is that they have to do with suppression of individuals and with the exercise of power. Freedom is, like all other humanistic ideas, a vital part of a power web which art seems to be suppressed by although it also helps sustaining it.
Art is, like man and freedom, an invention.
Art seems to be almost totally dependent on fixed ideas about the artist's subjectivity and the artist's position. It is like breathing by means of a respirator which is powered by oneself. This triangle was invented in the 18th century and it still lives on in our mental landscape among other forces of compulsion. Together with these it fixes the directions in which we move and the ways in which we are moved. Art has not changed the way it works as art.