Fluid music and art = postmodernism or posthumanism?

 Semi-final in world cup in soccer tonight. France versus Morocco.
The Le-Pen family mean that you cannot have double nationalities. 

But a lot of people with Moroccan ancestors celebrated in France after the quarter-final. I guess many of them have double identities; a bit French and maybe at bigger bit Moroccan (maybe some sees themselves a international citizens too), 
I think you can can have many identities,

Zygmunt Bauman used the word fluid instead of postmodernism to categorize out times. 
We live in fluid times. If there's a war in Ukraine, it influence the whole world. 
Th queer movement is in the loop now.
I think Bauman is looking for something steady, too much information nowadays, too much changing in job market. You have to be flexible, too flexible like plankton, moves around by waves and winds. (If you read about Bauman's life you will see that he seems to have been moved around quite much too).
Bauman is mostly known for wanting to see the Holocaust as part of modernism. (nothing is holy, everything should be done effective and so on).

For B fluid art is like the ones made by artists like Herman Braun-Vega and Manolo Valdés:
 


You can see that Vega uses Matisse and one of his collages in the painting. Quite normal in postmodern art to do that.

We can see that the terms fluidity and posthuman is connected to each other.

I would like to give an example of fluid bur very good music. The singers parents come from Turkey and Ireland and she livers in London.
You can hear many influences in her music, even some from Turkey. It have some queer roots in it too - another fluid trend. 

Nulifer Yanya: 

Maybe its a fluid  era that is pointing to something new. An era without an essence but with diversity as an important ingredients.






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