(Artnet gives us a review of "Out of Shadows" documentary and their own reasons why Marina is NOT a Satanist. This is a long article and is worth reading. It shares the leftist view of information that is of interest to us.)
Some Believe Marina Abramovic Is the Satanic Ringleader of a Global Political Conspiracy. That’s Ludicrous. But Here’s What They Get Right
We go down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos to find that a recent controversy points to much bigger issues about American culture.
Last week, amid all the other chaos in the world, something startling happened: a Microsoft promo for the HoloLens 2 mixed-reality headset featuring performance artist Marina Abramović ignited a backlash so fierce that the Seattle software giant evidently took it offline (the company itself isn’t offering comment). I set out to trace the origin of the backlash. What I found is that, as they say, this rabbit hole goes deeper than I expected.
The immediate cause of the Microsoft flame-up appears to be a blog post on Alex Jones’s Infowars site. On his broadcast, Jones referred to the HoloLens spot as “a two-and-a-half minute ad literally worshipping the head of the Church of Aleister Crowley,” referring to Abramović.
In any case, I find that the original Infowars post itself cites another source for authority: Out of Shadows, a one-hour-and-17-minute YouTube documentary featuring two former Hollywood stuntmen talking about their beliefs that a Satanic plot has infested the entertainment industry. That film reserves a special place in its climax for Marina Abramović as the puppet-mistress behind it all.
Before I continue, I want to lay out a simple formula: I think you should not write about a fringe internet conspiracy theory if the number of people talking about it is smaller than the number of people who are likely to read what you write.
But more than 9 million people have watched one YouTube version of Out of Shadows since it was posted online just one week ago, with a couple million more watching various mirrored versions. For comparison, Abramović’s own 2015 TED talk has accumulated 2.7 million views. The New York Times‘s “TimesTalks” interview with the artist has been seen about 400,000 times. Art21, the PBS show, has a 2012 clip about Abramović’s love of fashion that has 250,000 views.
Conspiracy videos are, in effect, a major avenue by which the popular image of art is being shaped. Their ripple effects are likely to extend far beyond a Microsoft commercial.
HIDING IN THE SHADOWS
I won’t summarize all of Out of Shadows here, but I will offer a sense of what it has to say.
(Go to the link)
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