new art is dead
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I don't think it's so much a question of your work being 'cool'. Stuff becomes art, or even great art, because it addresses/questions certain accepted/implied truths of the global sphere of art. The reason these communities appear is sometimes because it has become appropriate or necessary to address a certain truth at a certain time. The state of society, politics, religion etc will naturally select which truths in the sphere of art are addressed. The factthat a load of people seem to do it simultaneously, forming what appears to be a little clique/club, is simply because they're all following the same logical path through art history a it relates to the rest of the world, and interpreting it as their own perspective dictates.
If you think of art as kind of a collective eyewitness account of the world at large, each artist becomes an individual witness, and their work becomes the visual representation of their interpretation of the truth of the event as it unfolds.
So, don't try to do work in rebellion against contemporary inclination. Just follow your own logic, and try to create something 'true' rather than something 'cool'.
The rest is how well you know your craft.
I reckon