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by James Calder, Pimlico Wilde I have read with admiration, and no small amount of sympathy, the Pre-Abstractionist Manifesto. One cannot deny its force, nor its passion. The authors write with the urgency of those who feel their medium has lost its way, and in this, they join a long and noble tradition. Every century, … Read more
Pimlico Wilde does not subscribe to this manifesto, we publish it here to show the direction that some of the art world is taking We, The Pre-Abstractionists declare the following truths: 2. The world is already abstract: wind over water, brick over brick, shadow across cheekbone. The artist does not need to invent abstraction, he … Read more
By Clarissa Mornay It began, appropriately, at 4:57 a.m. , that most sacred of hours when night begins its slow capitulation to dawn , and it ended, if indeed it can be said to have ended, at some indeterminate time when guests began earnestly debating whether the concept of “midnight” should be abolished entirely. The … Read more
THE TWILIGHT CONSPIRACY: Why the Clocks Must Never Go Back Again By Camden Preedy, Founder of the Dawn Liberation Front, a Movement for the Preservation of Human Dawn. Let us say it plainly: the turning back of clocks each autumn , this barbaric, bureaucratic ritual, this calendrical vandalism , is an act of civilisational sabotage. … Read more
Taste Sans Frontier is a chaotic rebuttal to the Guardians of Aesthetic Coherence’s paper-centric, text-averse stance. This manifesto is intentionally unruly, printed in neon colors, smudged in corners, and typically shoved into gallery tote bags without permission. TO THE GUARDIANS: YOUR WALLS ARE COWARDS Your blank walls tremble. Ours shout. You want quiet? We want … Read more
“Formlessness is freedom. Neatness is compliance.” , unofficial motto spray-painted on their mobile sculpture-bus, The Slosh Engine Overview: Messiness Without Shame (often abbreviated as MWS) is an amorphous coalition of performance artists, sound designers, bio-hackers, speculative chefs, curators and conceptual artists who believe that coherence is the final gatekeeper of middle-brow aesthetics. Formed in early … Read more