Personal Manifesto of an Artist as a Cultural Activist
• Through art wish to move others and be moved by others
• Give art as a gift and receive art as a gift.
• Create alternative to consumer and high-tech arts = do not show money = be creatively inexpensive, poor, simple = promote low tech / quality art, not quantity art.
• Say what you want to say, say it effectively, and say it many times.
• Be available for others and be with others.
• Self-produce, co-produce and walk around letting people know that your art and your body are available.
• Be naked.
• Smell your way.
• Be actively passive and passively active. Cross boundaries.
• Cultivate, dig, be dirty, and physical. Work as a manual laborer.
• Stay marginal but center yourself.
• Stay small.
• Wear no title (if you happen to have a title, make nothing of it or do much more than required by the title).
• Stay being a foreigner. You do not have to participate in every conversation around you.
• Be a stranger and ask questions.
• Do necessary things well, but more importantly do unnecessary things passionately.
• Be mobile.
• Sustain, continue and thus be accountable.
• Be emotional and share emotions.
• Host guests and feed people.
• Linger on beautiful moments.
• Communicate, collaborate and infiltrate.
• Do not be polite.
• Touch people and their bodies sensitively.
• Not be younger or older than who you are. Respect everyone's age.
• Teach by example. Never ask credit.
• Pay your way. Only after that, ask help.
• Do not be shy to express serious matters seriously.
• Do not seek revenge.
• Be unreasonable but respect other people's rights.
• Break one rule at a time, but keep breaking.
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