Instantiation, Remuneration, Articulation, Proclamation [Choose].

To begin and end with a that's enough (Derrida).

A (dialogue) that begins at the head with recourse throughout the body.

Of and for the body, through and upon, as the primary apparatus.

A question of morals and ethics in situ, due course, dependent upon specific scenarios.

What form (forum) might this text occupy?

To whom is it being dictated, explained, and for what aim?

A simple postulate (variations of variables):

I will hold myself accountable - no one/thing to blame for who/how I am.

I will take responsibility - no guilt/regret/remorse for my decisions/actions.

I will choose for myself - to be free, to relinquish privilege, to decide the right for now.

I will live without impeding the life of others - according to my self-described idealism.

I will purge my life of excess - parsimony of means, glorified necessities.

I will leave the world more absurd than how I found it.

MANIFESTO for the Discontinuation of Artist Production

A Declaration of Ethics, A Call for Defiance

I maintain that the Production of Contemporary Art is....

• Excessive and wasteful in materials - filling dumpsters with trash and impressionable minds with archaic theory/techniques.

• Negligent and naive in ideology - concepts are trite, inconsequential, perpetuate incapacitating mythologies of the subject/society/culture, over tantalize the senses and numb the mind.

• Nepotistic and pretentious - hermetically sealed self-serving system of redundancy and idiocy, sacrificing a relation to the spiritual/natural/mysterious flux of the cosmos for economic gain, publicity, empirical history.

• Callous, pedestrian, boring - humor as a dissociative mechanism devoid of hope (articulations of alternatives) and is a drug (of the manufactured pharmaceutical order, a pain killer). Art that is oriented towards specialists gets lost in cognitive jest just as art fabricated for the philistine is hopelessly distracted with the theatrics of drama and geometry.

• Racist, classist, ageist... - discrimination or glorification of works based on skin color, socioeconomic orientation, generational affiliation, institutional spawn, industrialized status of home country, articulation of diaspora, technophilia/technophobia, etc, is regressive, offensive, stagnant, and misguided. Artists must be visionaries and should be capable of surpassing such trivial delineations between seemingly disparate psyches.

• Inept, uncommunicative, sterile - unable to compete with the diversity of experiences in non-mundane lived existence, that is to say, the potential fullness that one might experience if life is not reduced to a "daily routine," kept dynamic. As long as art purports to eradicate the boundaries between "Art" and "Life" (or "art" and "life", or any combination therein), or even to address such an absurd dialectic, it shall continue to perpetuate its own vain, vapid, virtueless, virulent mythology.

• Ultimately boring and ineffectual - uninteresting, monotonous, cumbersome, coarse, low-fidelity, tragically dramatic, sardonic, acerbic, and dull.

WE MUST FIGHT AGAINST THE SUPPRESSION OF DYNAMIC EXPERIENCE!

WE MUST TAKE DOWN THE ANESTHETIZING MACHINE OF CULTURE!

WE MUST STOP WORK, STOP LEISURE, STOP PROGRESS, STOP TIME!

DOWN WITH THE ECONOMY OF EXCESS!

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