Evaluation and Reflective Statement
Through my ongoing blog posts I have made an active engagement in how art has been used throughout the decades to communicate our thoughts on War. Art activism creates awareness for a problem, by using affective communication to reach as many people as possible and making them motivated for change. “They gather together and create a movement, and that movement creates change. That change results in more motivation, which results in more change. Eventually we create a near perpetual motion machine that cycles back and forth between motivation and change, all fuelled with information.” (Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert). From my research undertaken I have discovered the importance and necessity of using art to create social or political change in our society. I never considered how art and culture could influence change in such a vast way. For example the work of the Artlords in Kabul has established social transformation and behavioural change, by giving the community a voice again...
