Manifesto: The Impossible Approaches

WEAPONS OF CHOICE
Word, sound, image, gesture, light, and motion are subject to liberal exploitation. EXPLORE Through verbal and non-verbal forms of expression. EXPERIMENT, unyieldingly, with performance and design. ENDEAVOR to invoke, resurrect, reincarnate, re-animate or mutate beyond recognition any fictional or non-fictional experience. EXTEND an invitation to ALL that they come bear witness and testify to the results. Any scraps remaining after the fact must be left for philosophers, scholars, mystics and coroners to uncover.

ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE

MANIFEST THE IMPOSSIBLE!
"If it can be done, why do it?" Gertrude Stein
Visual aesthetic must be stunningly and relentlessly inventive. There is no interest in meticulously replicating the world around us. Challenge yourself! Gods only speak through visions of horrific beauty: discard the mirrors held up to nature, and show only the fragments reflected in a funhouse looking-glass, cross-hair precision of a sniper-scope, or hallucinatory magic-portal vista. The real eye-openers come in many guises: through children's comic books and robot arms, ouija boards and voodoo dolls, blowtorches and juke joint piano. Awakened eyes seek out sights unseen.

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