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.
