FutUreArt: Speculations on a Post-Human Future

	In a thousand years
	will the Mona Lisa still smile
	or Venus de Milo bend perfectly?

	Will the temples of Ankor Wat still rest in splendor
	or Bodhisattwas in Lhasa contemplate silently?

	In a hundred years
	will people still listen to sonatas by Schubert
	or take the time to read Shakespearian plays?

	Will art still become irrelevant
	as more people become
	obsessed with money making
	planet raping
	technology creating
	& speed accelerating?

	To survive this moment
	we must learn how to think slow:

	Why are we racing?
	Where do we really want to go?


Jack: 	(jestfully) I thought art was already dead.

Ella: 	(half in earnest) Don't speak such nonsense –
         to live without art is to exist without soul.



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from Lit-A-Rupture: A Post Literary Construction by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Contemplations about the fate of art in civilization that is not sustainable.
KEYWORDS: future conjectures, art of tomorrow, post-human possibilities


by T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1999 in Táoyuán, Taiwan  ⨳ Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan
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