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“People have been THINKING too long that ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the RICH. It does not belong to banks & fancy investors ART IS FOOD. You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS you.” (The WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto, Bread & Puppet Glover, 1984)

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Fundamental civil freedoms will be granted to the population, including real personal inviolability, freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association.

Participation in the Duma will be granted to those classes of the population which are at present deprived of voting powers, insofar as is possible in the short period before the convocation of the Duma, and this will lead to the development of a universal franchise. There will be no delay to the Duma elect already been organized.

It is established as an unshakeable rule that no law can come into force without its approval by the State Duma and representatives of the people will be given the opportunity to take real part in the supervision of the legality of government bodies. (October Manifesto, Sergei Witte & Alexis Obolenski)

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“[...]we see art with our cunt we make art with our cunt

 we believe in jouissance madness holiness and poetry

 we are the virus of the new world disorder

 rupturing the symbolic from within

saboteurs of big daddy mainframe

the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix [..]” 

(A Cyber Manifesto for the 21st century, VNS MATRIX)

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“ Es gibt wohl inmitten der Langeweile wenig Langweiligeres, als die krampfhafte Bemühung fortschrittlicher Kreise um den verharmlosten und salonfähig zurechtgestutzten Avantgardismus. Neben den Ahnungslosen rasen die Ewig-Verspäteten von Vernissage zu Konzert und bedienen sich aller Hilfsmittel zur Beseitigung der Verdauungsbeschwerden beim vorsichtigen Geniessen der «modernen Kunst».  [...] Erst wenige haben gemerkt, dass mit einem einzigen Relief von Arp der Lebensstil, und das Leben überhaupt, nicht zu ersetzen ist; ein kurzes Tonband von Schwitters verscheucht die Öde des Hauses nicht; ein Max Ernst ist eben doch keine gewöhnliche Wanddekoration; mit Beckett - der Leere selbst - kann man die Leere nicht ausfüllen; ein Möbelstück von Mies van der Rohe inmitten von Ramsch im modernistisch verbauten Haus steht auf verlorenem Posten trotz einer reichen Bibliothek über Bau- und Wohnkultur." ( PANDERMA, Manifest gegen den Avantgardismus, 1958)

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“1. That death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit.

2. That there is no beauty without death, its immanence. We shall sing death’s beauty — that is, beauty. 

3. That we shall take it upon us, as our task, to bring death out into the world. We will chart all its forms and media: in literature and art, where it is most apparent; also in science and culture, where it lurks submerged but no less potent for the obfuscation. We shall attempt to tap into its frequencies — by radio, the internet and all sites where its processes and avatars are active. [..]”

(First Committee of the International Necronautical Society, Manifesto)

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“Today, on the analogy, it's question of preventing the writing of an informal constitution which submits the general intellect to a system based on exploitation and the ecocide. The struggle is still against the language of the powers that be, in order to create by merry pranks new links between things (i.e. networking) and break any old hierarchy. As Rabelais emphasized in his works that the Middle Age was over and that new social relations were beating up the inertial force of the feudal world, so we have to point out that wagework has become unnecessary, that information and technology must belong to everybody, and so on. However, it is insufficient to wait for a 'short-circuit' or to hope for cathartic explosions: rather, we must create a scientific strategy of the merry prank. [...]  Anyone can be Luther Blissett simply by adopting the name. Become Luther Blissett.” (Luther Blissett, Manifesto)

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“The male, having a very limited range of feelings, and consequently, very limited perceptions, insights and judgements, needs the ‘artist’ to guide him, to tell him what life is all about. But the male ‘artist’ being totally sexual, unable to relate to anything beyond his own physical sensations, having nothing to express beyond the insight that for the male life is meaningless and absurd, cannot be an artist. [...] A ‘male artist’ is a contradiction in terms. A denegerate can only produce degenerate ‘art’. The true artist is every self-confident, healthy female, and in a female society the only Art, the only Culture, will be conceited, kooky, funky, females grooving on each other and on everything else in the universe.” (Solanas, S.C.U.M. Manifesto)   

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"Der Surrealismus wird Sie in den Tod, der eine Geheimgesellschaft ist, einführen. Er wir Ihrer Hand den Handschuh überziehen und darin das tiefe M vergraben, mit dem das Wort Memoria beginnt. Vergessen Sie nicht passende testamentarische Bestimmungen zu treffen: ich für meinen Teil bitte darum, in einem Möbelwagen zum Friedhof gefahren zu werden. [...]”  (André Breton, Erstes Manifest des Surrealismus, 1924)

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Museen: absurde Schlachthöfe der Maler und Bildhauer, die sich gegenseitig wild mit Farben und Linien entlang der umkämpften Ausstellungswände abschlachten! [...] Und was kann man auf einem alten Bilde schon anderes sehen als die mühseligen Verrenkungen des Künstlers, der sich abmühte, die unüberwindbaren Schranken zu durchbrechen, die sich seinem Wunsch entgegenstellten, seinen Traum voll und ganz zu verwirklichen?

Marinetti, Manifest des Futurismus

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‘Kaltes klares Wasser’ by Malaria!