Quote from: ConcreteMascara on February 04, 2010, 10:48:52 AM
Exactly because otherwise it becomes a redundant reiteration of old ideas. There was a time when new ideas were happening rapidly. Now it seems that many artists are trying to recapture a spirit that has passed by. There are less new forms, but many more ghosts of former ideas.
True but one have to remember that issuing manifestos have been a 20th century hobby of many artist from the Futurist and forward (there were Manifesto before also but lets start there). A lot of these had very little circulation in their day but does that make them less valid. I would say no and I a strong idea well put down can easily generate a lot of interest. Just think about Sam's texts about Walls.
One of the manifestos from yesteryear that I really got me wounded up was Gustav Metzger's Auto-destructive art manifesto. It would be really easy to see a line from Metzger to The Haters but Metzger wasn't very well know until the last 10 years or so. His influences seems to have been very limited and yet a lot of noise artist are working along lines he put down in the sixties. (Maybe Metzger is GXs patron saint what do I know?)
auto-destructive art manifesto
by gustav metzger
1960
Man In Regent Street is auto-destructive.
Rockets, nuclear weapons, are auto-destructive.
Auto-destructive art.
The drop drop dropping of HH bombs.
Not interested in ruins, (the picturesque)
Auto-destructive art re-enacts the obsession with destruction, the pummeling to which individuals and masses are subjected.
Auto-destructive art mirrors the compulsive perfectionism of arms manufacture - polishing to destruction point.
Auto-destructive art is the transformation of technology into public art. The immense productive capacity, the chaos of capitalism and of Soviet communism, the co-existence of surplus and starvation; the increasing stock-piling of nuclear weapons - more than enough to destroy technological societies; the disintegrative effect of machinery and of life in vast built-up a reason the person,...
Auto-destructive art is art which contains within itself an agent which automatically leads to its destruction within a period of time not to exceed twenty years. Other forms of auto-destructive art involve manual manipulation. There are forms of auto-destructive art where the artist has a tight control over the nature and timing of the disintegrative process, and there are other forms where the artist's control is slight.
Materials and techniques used in creating auto-destructive art include: Acid, Adhesives, Ballistics, Canvas, Clay, Combustion, Compression, Concrete, Corrosion, Cybernetics, Drop, Elasticity, Electricity, Electrolysis, Feed-Back, Glass, Heat, Human Energy, Ice, Jet, Light, Load, Mass-production, Metal, Motion Picture, Natural Forces, Nuclear Energy, Paint, Paper, Photography, Plaster, Plastics, Pressure, Radiation, Sand, Solar Energy, Sound, Steam, Stress, Terra-cotta, Vibration, Water, Welding, Wire, Wood.
