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This text was performed as part of the event MANIFESTO!, held on March 19, 2025, at KGB Bar in Manhattan. An eager crowd assembles to hear Alex Kitnick. When I think about the social function of art, I think about the subway. I think about people clustering, gathering, shuffling, and moving, and then I think about all the cars linked together—eight, nine, ten, eleven at a time. I remember, too, that another train will arrive minutes later, and that the F is only one of many lines crisscrossing the city, twenty-four hours a day. When I think about all this, art—and the audience for art, which includes the audience for criticism—seems fairly small. I think about Poetry in Motion. Maybe scale isn’t the metric by which we should consider art, but art does need some kind of world in which to operate. In one of his early talk pieces, the poet David Antin describes New York in the 1960s: there were millions of people all around and most of them seem to have been artists of some sort or anot

MANIFESTO! | 4Columns Events: 5th Column 03.19.25 MANIFESTO! Alex Kitnick This text was performed as part of the event MANIFESTO! , held on March 19, 2025 , at KGB Bar in Manhattan. An eager crowd assembles to hear Alex Kitnick. When I think about the social function of art, I think about the subway. I think about people clustering, gathering, shuffling, and moving, and then I think about all the cars linked together-eight, nine, ten, eleven at a time. I remember, too, that another train will arrive minutes later, and that the F is only one of many lines crisscrossing the city, twenty-four hou

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