Writing Live is…
WRITING LIVE IS… Poetry, art, writing and performanceAn experiment
Not for profit
About process
A community of art writers
A collaboration
Launched during Performa 09 WRITING LIVE IS…
Based in three frames – Scoring Performa, Writing Machine and Writing Encounters
Creative
Collaborative
Unknown
Provisional
An exchange between artists, writers, countries and generations
A program that continues into 2010
WRITING LIVE IS…
Performa09, Performance, Futurism, History and writing
WRITING LIVE IS…..COMING SOON!
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TEMPLATE FOR A 21ST CENTURY MANIFESTO FOR VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE
We stand on the last promontory of the centuries! Omnipresent speed died yesterday! Instead, we glorify slowness. …Performa09 presents Time and Space!
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No more futile worship of the past, of objects, of drama. We present performance for everyone. We unshackle performance from the hands of the poor and the few. We put performance on the map. We say performance is the highest order; there can be no other but performance. The sounds of the street, the colours of nature, even everyday clothes are not good enough for performance.
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We present performance in the museum, crowding out collections; dead painters and sculptors step aside. Curators – we say give yourself over to performance’s demand of uselessness and waste (of Time and Space) if you dare. We strip the gallery, that absurd abattoir, all its’ objects. In its stead, we erect a temple of performance to which thousands will make pilgrimage, pay homage and be schooled in the immediacy and purity that can only be found in the durational.
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We say go slow. Spurn dynamism, speed and technology. Feel the dizzying heights of empty, useless exertion. Give yourself over to performance. Expect (no)thing in return. Feel the exhilaration and sheer present-ness of performance, of (a waste) of time. To be inside performance is to be physically there, free of the day-to-day, pure of mind, aware of the present moment and of oneself completely, aware of each muscle moving, each drop of liquid sliding down the throat.
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The true object of art is man. Hence we sing praises to artists that use only themselves and their bodies as object, create nothing and use no trimmings or props. We glorify those who create without decoration or product.
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Slowness is virtue
Uselessness is value
Poetry indoors!
Take time. Join us!
CREDITS
Taken from a text originally written by Rachel Lois Clapham and Joanna Loveday with excerpts from The Futurist Manifesto. F. T. Marinetti, 1909. Adapted for Performa09 by Rachel Lois Clapham and subject to further change during Performa09.
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