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on the gold coast in Memphis School designer buildings of pastel blues
and pinks. Slick commercialism selling us unattainable perfection. Sunshine,
sparkling teeth, everlasting youth, rippling biceps,
anorexia. Perfect lighting, perfectly composed shots, clinically
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Post-DEcadent artists reject these fantasies.
Real life is gritty, it's not resolved in half hour sit-coms. it's painful,
joyful, it's messy
- you never know what's going to happen next. There's rough edges. It's
abrasive. The root word for Post-Decadent Art Theory is RAW...emotions
are raw, the skin of your head is ripped off to leave the raw nerve
ends exposed : |
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Unstable , rough as guts. A preoccupation
with substance and meaning rather than aesthetics..A rejection of style
for its own sake...Keep the rough edges. They're the interesting bits .
Don't smooth out the bumps. Reject institutions , galleries, hierarchies
- embrace friendships , affinity groups. Stop being
so bloody fake. Get on Alfred Jary's bike, pay homage to Pere Ubu...
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hey , let's make another road movie.
Be like a bower bird, gather , reassemble, regurgitate, process,
degrade , degrade , degrade. Reject quality. Use an axe instead of a scalpel.
Don't fit the profile. embrace a loser, an inbred redneck.
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Reject the delusional fantasies of
a
corrupt and immoral system of greed
and selfishness. How come my life
isn't like
"the Bold and the Beautiful"??
It's time for me to formulate my own set of aesthetics..Trust
my own instincts. Reject style for it's own sake.
Dream of Hope and freedom.
Energy , movement, stasis.
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Post-DEcadent Art is negative . It isno-thing.
It asks why are you listening to me when you could be
formulating your own ideas, thinking your own thoughts, processing and
evaluating your own emotions. I don't have to vicariously live my life
thru soap operas. I can experience it directly and communicate art unfiltered,
RAW. There's that word again.
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Argument is fascism. persuasion is violence.
Rhetoric is a bashing tool of the controller. Thinkin
for yourself is a prerequisite to join the inclusive non-club
of Post-DEcadent Artists .. revolting, extra-ordinarilly funny
- love to amuse , delight and shock.. oNE minute you laughing,
next you crying.
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