MANIFESTOE OF THE F-ART PARTY
BY:
DAVID BORDER
Mr. DUBIOUS
DEE KAY
JOY WALL (ESPRIT)
HEATHER WRAPP

PHILOSOPHICAL EXCURSIONS INTO THE DYNAMICS OF
ART-CONTEXT, ART-FRAMEWORK, ART HISTORY & ART CRITICISM
PLUS ANY NUMBER OF REMEDIES FOR A HEADACHE.

1. The face of image-filth (i.e. filthy pictures) that has come to the awareness of a number of participants in F-ART have made it imperative to begin a series of thorough purgations in the art-field (i.e. field of study). An all out attack (not merely polemical) must be launched against the edifices of reactionary fetishism: art weltanschaung. No move swearing in the bathroom.

2, The soul purpose of this proclamation, one of many to come, has the same connotations as any other fucking manifestoe, where ‘man’s festering toe’ shall never be healed (well, not in my lifetime anyway). As was stated: the ‘my’ may mean ‘y’, which is a constant, which must be overthrown. Therefore, nevertheless, needless to say, the role of the artist-as-word or the artist-as-magnate shall be deleted. The downtown core and geography of the ‘artists sales’ shall be obliterated.

3. Every culture, it is said, will produce its great art, but we’ll believe it when we don’t see it. The past ‘great’ cultures have taught us the value of ‘great’ art, and the slogan that goes with it: “Always count your money before you go to bed”. Well, because we are a great culture let us now state, “Always count your money before you go to bed”, if you are able to count all your money in one night, (in this case you will be able to), you’ll have a definite knowledge of how much was stolen from you during the night..

4. This leads us directly into the crunch: can phenomenological dictums stand the ‘mileage test’ so-to-speak? Art context is no con, but ‘great art’ has no phenomenological meaning whatsoever. Continuing to appeal to authority (like a slipped metaphor) in attempts to rationalize the distinction between ‘art’ & art, can never be reasoned to be a logical necessity despite the fact that remaindering is a natural process.

4.1 Nevertheless, ‘great art’ is seen as a subset of ‘art’ (even though it is easy to see that the reverse is true) what then is the former’s relation to art or for that matter Art. But to talk of this in isolation from the obvious socioeconomic & ideological framework is a red herring eating sausages. It must also be kept in mind that even if common (?) people could afford art or ‘art’ they wouldn’t wipe their ass with it (to turn a phrase) even if it is a mistake, well-apologized for by the artiste.

4.2 The ‘art-proposition’, as presented, packaged & recorded by critics, of the so-called concept-art or any other mystico-scientific misnomer is pure fiction, in that it contains an inversion of dialectic. I am nuts a priori.

5. The ideological proposition behind any art masterpiece is to steer away from all previous doctrines, forms or formats, at all costs even to the point of ‘fairy-ness’; the ‘heel-toe, heel-toe’ theory. The Credo, heretofore, is a non-representational act (which eventually breaks down or exposes itself as, a representational theory: 'a’ imitates ‘b’) that exhibits all absurdity & asinine confusion of words per se. This eventually culminates into definitive third world opinions and therefore accords with naturalism & communism. The grandiose use of words rebukes ‘great lines’ as in the great china wall & rock lyrics such as:
She loves you, yea, yea, yea
She loves you, yea, yea, yea...
The grinding down & absurdity of greed with ignorance on both sides displays the conjugal peoples of art.

6. Thus the art-situation demands of the artist, in his consciousness of the post-facto distortion of art objects (l’objet d’ art), that he construct a system of plausible ethics. These will be called art-situation-ethics. Art-situation-ethics make each artiste responsible for the time-scale of his art & the degree of propaganda accompanying the object, if it is not possible to predetermine this then the artist must take it upon himself to dispose of all unwarranted & parasitic material by whatever means.

6.1 Pick my ass with your swizzle stick.

6.2 Artistes must learn to belong to reality.

7. Since most publications of this kind ‘on “art”’ have everything to do with ‘art’, this proclamation will be published & have nothing to do with ‘art': 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 letter words shall be dealt with, of course, & shall be used in discourse in addition to ‘the discursive sense’. In emitting signal patterns the network-idea shall be negated, blocking all channels of transmission. The involved components of the art-group-individual, succession upon succession have definite satirical implications. However these will not be looked into.

8. In the encounter with the mondo nudo of our own backyard, it is mandatory not to go out & photograph. Anyone violating this act of grace will in turn be violated. In future, it will become a common feature of the urban scene to see observation towers erected to enforce non-representatio-documentary behaviour. Cameras will be confiscated documentation will become a thing-of-the-past.

9. It becomes obvious that the artists is caught-in-a-web of preconditioned ideological forms & procedures (Byronic creation & its masturbatory functions, (Ez * p-not p:TFs2).

9.1 Tink-Tonk

9.2 The impotence of logical analysis when faced with such mystification is merely tautological at this point.

9.21 King Kong doesn’t appear in Tristes Tropiques.

9.22 Thus art-situation-ethics are crucial in art or ‘art’.

10. Analogy upon analogy, phenomenological inquiry upon phenomenological inquiry the pant-suit continues at the highest prices. Political point-of-view (incl. in this verb) becomes militant point-of-view. The F-Artist shall equip himself with gun & rabbit’s foot in order to take seat in Govt. & upkeep justice fit for suburban banality. Love involved in Surrealist manifestoes will not be a part of this one. Elitism here is outside denial upon denial, agreement upon agreement on lines previously written. The crying of babies shall be Xeroxed & filed. The summer in the parks, nightclub activities & cocktail hours shall meet in a twixt of process called the ‘EFFORT OF ART’. In thirst, man voices... the wet reflection is pure fiction.