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Fifteen theses on contemporary art

1. Art is not the sublime descent of the infinite into the finite abjection of the body and sexuality. On the contrary, it is the production of an infinite subjective series, through the finite means of a material subtraction.

2. Art cannot merely be the expression of a particularity (be it ethnic or personal). Art is the impersonal production of a truth that is addressed to everyone.

by Milan Markovic, June 10th 2010

People active in the independent scene should:

1. try to intervene in wider social contexts, connecting with other groups and networks on the social scene

2. use imagination, not only for their art and works but also to think of new forms of production, process, cooperation and ways to fund...

3. not be bound by their field of work; there is a great danger in feeling secure in our own position of professionals

5 Statements for jokes

1.Jokes allow to look at things differently than from their objective, goal oriented side and therefore facilitate space between things.
2.Jokes are conventionally a male domain. Women should work hard on becoming funny: It empowers you over your ressources.
3.Joking degrades the ego.
4.Jokes facilitate bad taste and political uncorrectness in a charming manner.
5.Telling jokes in the theater opens it to the outside of theater without representing the surrounding.

5 Statements against jokes

10 statements to spectators

juli reinartz, 24.02.2010

we're on a deal here

this deal is voluntary and unfree

appropriate the deal!

you are welcome to be not active. we won't challenge you with decisions about your identity that you anyway have to take every day. we won't trap you in self-realization ideologies.

theater is a business on emotions

let's create a discourse about emotions

discourse should be fragile and uncertain

we cannot avoid structural difference

let's ignore it anyway

i don't seek for democrazy but negotiation

13 statements against communication skills

juli reinartz, 23.02.2010

1. communication skills objectify emotions for the sake of a cultural capital

2. communication skills establish subjectivity as a working place and private capital.

3. communications skills establish the other as something that shouldn't touch me, that shouldn't undo me

4. i want to be undone

5. communications skills establish democracy between me and you. they expose intimacy

6. intimacy needs to be precarious for the sake of experience.

7. precarity is sexy

11 statements for beauty

juli reinartz, 23.02.2010

beauty is the most visible and the least definable

beauty has no representation

beauty is the only postulate that enables decisions

beauty is utopia

utopia is not beautiful, but sublime

beauty is a tool

esthetics define groups to their essential

beauty is essential to a good life

beauty is the most complex term ever

and you cannot assume any adjectives to beauty

you are beautiful

12 statements on a movement practice

juli reinartz, 23.02.2010

movement is not an expression, but a reality

movement is performative on presence

shifts of presence instead of being just present allow finding unpredicted bodies

movement can be reproductive or productive, it recreates the ever same or appropriates unknown spaces. the presence of both creates difference and attention.

work with your beloved habits.

don't do movements that you don't like, for whatever reason. choose your movement!

1. Be feisty like never before
2. Avoid precaution
3. Question authority
4. Ignore discouragement
5. Don't ask why
6. Be categorical
7. Look outside
8. Apathy is useless
9. Say yes
10.Confusion is unproductive

1. Explore, challenge and reconstruct the norms surrounding power structure,
professionalism and art.
2. Work transparently.
3. Work collectively, democratically and non-hierarchical.
4. Leave prejudices about genres, behind you.
5. Sisterhood and pleasure is the essence of the work.
6. All ideas are worth examining and exploring.
7. The working procedures and practices create the content, how we work determines
what will be produced.
8. Discussion and collaboration shape and make it possible to live the life we want to
live.

1. Have sex
2. Swim naked in the sea
3. Ride a bike in a hot summer night
4. Give birth
5. Run 10 kilometers
6. Listen to sentimental music
7. Look at the stars
8. Stand on a high hill
9. Go to a funeral
10. Dance your ass off