Artists become brands when the system can use them. Then there is a trade up for access, money, celebrity and power. In exchange, the artist's brand normalizes and markets what should be confronted and exposed. Impressive piece from Fatima Bhutto.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-hillary-clinton-liberal-literati-coddling-powerful?CMP=share_btn_tw …
As somebody who grew up in a culture that was not commercial, I cannot get used to the pressures of "mandatory branding," and bleed from it every day.https://tessafightsrobots.com/tessa-lena/rebels-commerce/ …