ALYTUS PSYCHIC STRIKE BIENNIAL #8: SA(N)CABA (SITUGEOGRAPHIC QUANTUMPILGRIMAGE FROM BOTOSANI TO ALINJA) AUGUST 10-31, 2019

ATTACK WHITE SUPREMACIST CULTURE!                                                    FIND AND AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF
REPRODUCTIVE, PRODUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WORKERS WHO ARE NOT IN UNIONS OR COUNCILS!           

ALL (IN)ORGANIC COMRADES UNITE!                                                                                            GAME THE SYSTEM!

ABRACADABRA-C  (Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distribution of its Aberrant Bacillus Right Abroad – Committee)

ÐعM提п (former DAMTP - the DaðA Miners and Travailleuse Psychique) - workers union to disrupt the creation of cultural capital through regional and a national language

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DAMTP’s knew the Early Christian times reminiscent caves could be found on the territory called Luana’s Land (Tara Luanei), situated near Alunis, Nucu and Colti villages. They did a trip to Buzau mountains on August 11th, which is notorious as Japanese Mountain Day. There was said that caves, cells and churches carved in stone in first centuries of Christianity were used as places of refuge and worship, but now it starts to obtain the shape of tourist site with the differentiated length of tracks and tickets selling. This activity now resembles improvised cash-in by pirate looking like guys, but it gonna be changed for more “continental” version very soon. And that fits well with the idea of Christianisation developed into a colonization.

One of the cells belonged to the monk Dionisie, who, the legend says, made the road to his dwelling as complicated as possible, because he liked to be alone. Peregrine DAMTP‘s succeed to find just one of all 30 cave settlements in those mountains. And it was exactly the one hardest to be found.

Peregrines did a prompt 3SF World Cup. FIASCO started to bounce a ball and did a sound event, signalling the 12th anniversary of the end of the Age of Divinity.

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In 7PC (vulg. 2014) it was foretold that in five years the Lopătari (psychic strike) Biennale would take place, heralding the age of the Proletariat.

On August 10th DAMTP peregrines (following early [Karl] Marx to [Stewart] Home) started as car mechanics in Bucharest; later then they became proletarian psycho-signallers in Săpoca; afternoon they spend reconciling dead workers with global tectonic movements in Scortoasa (Berca); and late night ended as critical critics in Lopătari. Then there they got incredible countryside dinner and continued with the best Alytus Psychic Strike Biennial line to taste (not to drink as bourgeois artists used to do during the Age of Divinity) wine and/or stronger alcohols made from local grapes, and to eat [water] melons - all in industrial amounts. Many of not eaten and/or tasted items were taken to the cars as food supply. According to Fazlallah’s: fasting is not necessary during travelling, because a body in motion could not become host of letters, so emptying it is besides the point. Following lettrist position the last melon was eaten in Edirne on August 15th, but the last bottle of grape alcohol was irradiated while scanning the car by Turkish custom officials and because of that was left facing the Ararat/Agri mountain on the Azerbaijan-Turkish border on August 24th. The last drop of wine was tasted in ferryboat in a very centre of the Black Sea – this moment marked the end of the Lopătari (psychic strike) Biennale.

When leaving Lopătari DAMTP‘s stopped at seeming salty mountain, climbed it and tasted what looked like salt. And it was salt.

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Terrestrial mud volcanoes occur where high fluid pressure in the deep subsurface results in the triolectic interaction of mud, water and gas on the way to the surface. This process creates transformative morphology of the unique rich in methane and other hydrocarbons, and hosting a suite of electron acceptors including oxygen, nitrate, iron, manganese and sulfate. And all those are mostly the letters delivered by dead workers. And that was a different case from what was expected at least by ABRACADABRA-C to continue the clay therapy applications started in Alytus Psychic Strike Biennial in 8PC (vulg. 2015).

First of all, thousands of mud volcanoes exist worldwide, defining and affecting the habitat and the daily lives of the millions of people living amongst them. One can follow the rules’ set up letting to conceive one more accumulation of capital in a form of spectacle; or to break the rules and step into the mud so destroying the spectacle, or to invent new rules of the game right on the spot. Peregrines chose the pitch for 3SF quite far away from tourists’ path in a deep tripartite ditch, formed by hardened mud flows and scrubbed by water. Amorphous surface and irregularity of the shapes of the ditches made ball to jump in an unpredictable trajectory.

Secondly, mud volcanism and mud volcano distribution is intimately related to the formation and the distribution of the world’s petroleum assets, thus serving as an indicator for valuable natural resources, destruction of which creates industrial (or capitalist) forms of meaning so specific to the Age of Divinity: world trade routes, trade markets and sources of raw materials, as well as military-strategic points, with few exceptions, were in the hands of the peoples of the West.

Thirdly, mud volcanoes offer an insight into otherwise hidden deep structural and diagenetic processes such as the formation of gas hydrates, mineral dissolution and transformation, degradation of organic material, high pressure/temperature-reactions, and dead workers advises. That is a model of what Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev called energetic materialism as differed from Eurocentric forms of historical and dialectical materialisms.

Lastly, mud volcanism generally involves voluminous generation and emission of both methane and carbon dioxide whereby most mud volcanoes serve as an efficient, natural source of greenhouse-gases and consequently play an important role in global climate dynamics.

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The first event of Alytus psychic strike biennial (peregrination issue) was appointed to happen in Săpoca as Psychic Workers‘ 3SF World Cup on August 10th, 12PC (vulg. 2019). But incidentally it got extended up to August 18th.

Psychiatric Hospital and Safety Measures Săpoca is a hospital in Buzău County. It was founded in 1960 on the site of a school of crafts. Spitalul Săpoca is the largest of its kind in the country. The area around Săpoca was and still is inhabited by working class people – miners among them. It’s worth to keep in mind that the location is not far away from famous Transylvanian area famous of proletarian self-organization. There were the miners of Jiu Valley and workers of Brasov who did the largest strikes since 70-ies. Also the most of criminals during the communist regime in Romania were the workers from the region. Seems that there was not enough to have crafts school as a tool for suppression of working class youth. Instead the psychiatric hospital was designed to host working class people – the fact breaks the famous Eastern European stereotype of intellectuals being held in psychiatric hospitals to break the resistance. In reality psychiatric hospital was a tool for communist regimes to break worker’s movements while internationally were escalated just single cases of intelligentsia.

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Bilan:
Six years ago, in sixth year of the Proletarian Calendar [2013 Vulg.], Strategic Optimism Football club was formed in London. It was created by former members of the nomadic invisible college, the University for Strategic Optimism as a vehicle for its own self-abolition. The UfSO had been a revolutionary tendency within the UK student movement, instrumental in various conflicts with the State and Capital around 3-6PC [2010-13 vulg.]. It is remembered for its part in the storming of the Tory party HQ, of Lewisham Town Hall, the Battle of Parliament Square, etc, as well as triggering a series of viral bank occupations that in turn lit the touch paper for the Indignados and Occupy Movements. However, as a result of this fame, UfSO grew tired of fending of speaking invitations from ‘radical’ art and political organisations, increasingly finding itself recuperated by cultural institutions, from the Museum of London to the fashion supplement of the NY Times – basically anywhere ‘radical chic’ could bump up the sales figures.

The UfSO had only its time. By 6PC [2013 vulg.] the movement of which it was one of the more advanced practical-theoretical elements had dissipated and disintegrated. Even just one year after its founding, the major part of the UfSO’s energy and resources had been diverted into the Occupy movement and the UK and global struggles of 3-4PC [2011 vulg.] more broadly. One can see that in hindsight, this loss of practical coherence manifested in the UfSO’s descent into abstract theorising, resulting in internal wrangling and splits within the group. Internal sexual tumult, along with drug and alcohol addictions played their part, like they do in all good stories, but it was ultimately a political decomposition that brought about an end to the UfSO’s more radical phase of operations. From 6PC [2012 vulg.] on, its direct actions more or less ceased, it became solely an abstract venue for thinking and writing – in short it became another off-shoot of academia. The UfSO’s radicality had always inhered in its praxis, in its practical critique of the university as an institution and the class relations that produce it. Without this praxis it was nothing. After a year or so of attempting to regroup, and thinking through the slow disintegration of the ‘2011 moment’, the remaining faculty of the UfSO decided that a continuing programme of practical critique had become impossible – it had never wished to become an avant-garde without a movement. For a short while the UfSO then turned to thinking through and attempting to put across the insights that it had gained into the nature of radical pedagogy. When it became clear it had said all it had to say on the matter, and that such a project could more effectively be pursued through other groups, the last remaining participants took the decision to dissolve the UfSO as an active
organisation.

In order to do so, it was necessary to put the ‘legacy’ of the UfSO beyond reach of the would-be cultural assassins and profiteers of the worlds of art and politics. For that, what was needed was their practical supersession, something that was to be found in the collective game of three-sided football. Three-sided football was chosen because, truly, it has no author, it is and always was collectively elaborated. It was chosen because it has always remained continually in a state of triolectical incoherence and experiment – as a really existing movement. Most importantly, it was chosen as it extended the practical critique of capitalist social relations that the UfSO had, at its peak, embodied

So it was that in 6PC [2013 vulg.], the UfSO announced its auto-dissolution, but simultaneously the formation of a new triolectical football team; Strategic Optimism Football (SOF) was born. Declaring that it was triolectically inverting Marcel Duchamp’s well-known gesture of “definitively abandoning” art in favour of chess. In their case, the UfSO gave up art and politics, in order to play 3SF: the realisation and suppression of football. However, SOF’s first game was played under the banner of an international day of action against a neo-imperialist corporate land grab in the Roșia Montană region of Transylvania, rather casting doubt on this possibility from day one. Incidentally, it is a little-known fact that it was from this very game that one of three-sided football’s infamous tactical dissimulations, the so-called “Rosia’s (Triple) Cross”, obtained its name.

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Šiandieninė Lietuvos meno pasaulio situacija net ir jo paties oficialių atstovų akimis ir žodžiais tapo nuobodi ir beformė: viskas pasiekta (įstota į NATO, AICA ir ES, laimėtas karas prieš bet kokią iš vidaus kylančią kritiką). Pagrįstai kyla klausimas, kokią gi funkciją šiandieninėje kapitalo prisigėrusioje visuomenėje atlieka meno institucijos? Kodėl naujai įsteigtas MO centras toks įkyriai, netgi isteriškai, agresyvus? Kodėl NDG (ir tas pats MO) pradėjo praeitį projektuoti į ateitį ir žada amžinąjį gyvenimą mirusiesiems, giminėms bei sau patiems? Kodėl nususo ŠMC? Ar tikrai reiktų džiaugtis Lietuvos paviljono „pasiekimais“ Venecijos bienalėje? Galbūt į šiuos klausimus padės atsakyti žinios iš Londono, į kurį pagal galimybes (ne)tiesiogiai orientavosi ir tebesiorientuoja visos minėtos institucijos. Prieš gerą dešimtmetį Vilniuje apsilankęs britų rašytojas Stewartas Home‘as atvirai pripažino, kad Vilniaus šiuolaikinis kultūrinis gyvenimas – tai pigi Londono imitacija. Netgi regionų gyventojai paskutinius kelis dešimtmečius Vilnių žymiai sėkmingiau susiranda Londone, nei pačiame Vilniuje.

Vis dėlto, dar reikėtų trumpo situacijos paaiškinimo. 2016 metais, grupė psichodarbininkų surengė nesankcionuotas trišalio futbolo rungtynes Tate Modern galerijoje, taip pat kitose Londono viešosiose (?) erdvėse. Tate Modern sureagavo iškviesdama apsaugą, ir, štai po trijų metų, organizuoja jau sankcionuotą, saugų projektą, skirtą „meno ir futbolo sąryšiui“, šiame projekte pakvietusi dalyvauti (kaip pasirodė) karjeros menininkus. Piniginė pakiša ir/arba karjeros galimybės ‒ viena efektyviausių priemonių.

Dėl laiko stygiaus nebūtina pasakoti gausybės niuansų (galbūt kada nors atsiras galimybė apie tai pakalbėti plačiau), užtenka paminėti, jog psichodarbininkai ir jų sąjūdis nenori būti siejami su oficialia kapitalistine meno institucijų (šiuolaikinio meno centrų, muziejų) ir megainstitucijų (bienalių) sistema. Maža to, savo veikla bando tą cinišką sistemą demaskuoti, o susiklosčius palankioms aplinkybėms, galbūt netgi sunaikinti. Žinoma, tai daroma ne grynai politinio aktyvizmo ar atviros destrukcijos formomis, tačiau kolektyvinės saviorganizacijos ir laisvos kūrybinės saviraiškos (nepainioti su sistemos peršama „meno“ sąvoka) pagrindu.

Joje nesivadovaujama oficialios meno sistemos biurokratine ir/ar komercine, t. y. normatyvine logika, nesilaikoma sistemos nustatytų karjerizmo ir subordinacijos taisyklių. Nors oficialioje sistemoje „menas“ juk visada nežinia kodėl susiejamas su „laisve“. Todėl ši veikla išryškina po „menu“ slypintį sistemos autoritariškumą ir manipuliacijas, taigi melą ir propagandą. O po ja slepiasi buržuazinė vartojimo ir socialinės stratifikacijos ‒ žemesniųjų socialinių klasių, kitų rasių engimo ir pan. ‒ ideologija.

Taigi, šios saviraiškos formos korumpuotai kolonialistinei sistemai tampa neparankios. Tiesa, meno sistema negali ar nenori atvirai demonstruoti arogancijos ir jėgos, nes ji remiasi demokratijos ir kūrybiškumo (creativity) mitologija. Žinoma, Lietuvoje, kaip ir daugelyje buvusių imperijų kolonijų, meno sistema gali kone atvirai demonstruoti galią ir būti arogantiška, kaip kad vienoje Coca Colos reklamų buvo skelbiama „because I can“ (nes aš galiu). Todėl išrandami nepatogių kontrkultūrinių sąjūdžių neutralizavimo būdai. Vienas efektyviausių ‒ simuliacijos arba sukeitimo principas. Pasisavinamos ir imituojamos kontrkultūrinių sąjūdžių idėjos, tačiau jau išvalytais nuo aktualaus turinio ir kritinių ketinimų, sistemai pelną kraunančiais, „kūrybiškumo“ ar „meninio avangardo“ pavidalais. Šis Tate Modern projektas ‒ tipiškas pavyzdys.

Tokiu būdu kritinis potencialas panaikinamas, nes jis įkurdinamas „baltajame kube“ ir pakeičiamas karjeros kuratoriais ir menininkais, trykštančiais pseudoidėjomis. Tokiu atveju konktrkultūrinių sąjūdžių atstovai sąmoningai klaidingai pateikiami tiesiog kaip irgi karjeros menininkai, tik „mažiau sėkmingi“, nei tie ‒ pakliuvę į prestižinį projektą... Taigi, tiesiog nepakankamai kūrybiški, o dažnai netgi nekultūringi, negatyvūs individai.

Šį principą galėtų iliustruoti kad ir tokia vietinės provincialios meno sistemos smulkmena. 2010 m. Vilniaus ŠMC rengto propagandinio oficiozinio projekto „Lietuvos dailė 2000‒2010 m.“ atidarymo spaudos konferencijoje kažkuri žurnalistė paklausė ŠMC direktoriaus ar buvo projekte atsisakiusiųjų dalyvauti menininkų? Netikėto klausimo išmuštas iš vėžių, direktorius nerišliai burbtelėjo, kad buvo du menininkai, žinoma, nenurodydamas jų pavardžių. O tada paskubomis pridūrė, kad „jie pateikė patenkinamas atsisakymo priežastis“ (mirk iš juoko!) O viena gretimai sėdėjusi garsi dailėtyrininkė, palaikydama direktorių, arogantiškai pro sukąstus dantis iškošė ‒ „tas atsisakymas dalyvauti, yra tik būdas dar labiau pasireklamuoti...“

Taigi, sistema naudoja veidrodžio principą. Jeigu kritiškai nusiteikusiųjų neišeina papirkti, tada bet kokį kritinį veiksmą savo atžvilgiu sistema pateikia kaip tą veiksmą atlikusiųjų oportunizmą ir savireklamą. Taigi, savo cinizmą perkelia į kritikuojančius. Kaip jau minėjome, imitaciniuose projektuose akcentuojamas „pozityvus kūrybiškumas“, būtinai šmėžuoja „kontekstas“ (kuris reiškia psichopatinius tarpusavio santykius), taip pat sistemos kalboje labai dažnos yra „tapatumo“ ir „tyrimo“ savitikslės sąvokos. Tada ši tautologija dar papildoma , „išskleidžiama“, įforminama tariamais „debatais“, „kūrybinėmis dirbtuvėmis“ ir „peržiūromis“.

Į šią prasmės simuliavimo mechaniką, taip pat ir Lietuvos šiuolaikinio meno sistemoje, labai dažnai įtraukiamas dar ir akademinis pasaulis. Įtraukiami vadinamieji teoretikai ‒ ne tik su sistema tiesiogiai susiję (karjeros) kuratoriai ir dailėtyros atstovai, tačiau ypatingai vertinami madingi (karjeros) filosofai, paprastai tariant ‒ šiuolaikiniai sofistai. Karjeros filosofai sisteminę propagandą kilsteli į aukštesnį lygmenį ‒ įpakuoja ją į solidų, rimtą (para)akademinį apvalkalą.

(Kolektyvinio) kūrybiškumo (creativity) biurokratinės simuliacijos, persimetę iš bienalizuotos sistemos, iškerojo taip pat ir meno edukacinėje sistemoje (pavyzdžiui, VDA meno doktorantų programose, Nidos meno kolonijos „kūrybinių dirbtuvių“, „debatų“ nesibaigiančiose simuliacijose, vainikuojamose kolektyvinio sriubos virimo ir valgymo apeigomis ir t. t.).

Pavyzdžių nors samčiu semk... Pavyzdžiui, VDA meno doktorantūros rėmuose organizuojama diskusija apie „pasipriešinimą galiai (sic!) ir meninį aktyvizmą“. Diskusiją moderuoja karjeros kuratorė ir dailės kritikė, kuri, kiek juokaujant, galima sakyti ‒ yra privatizavusi protesto kultūros temą. Solidumo įspūdžiui sustiprinti pasikviečiamas dar ir karjeros filosofas su, liaudiškai tariant, „gerai pakabintu liežuviu“. Šis filosofas, savo ruožtu, irgi yra privatizavęs tą pačią temą, tik kitoje ‒ filosofijos ‒ profesinėje sferoje.

Tada iš preliminaraus diskusijos dalyvių sąrašo (šventos ramybės dėlei) pašalinami tie, kurie gali diskusiją pakreipti saugaus formato scenarijuje nenumatyta linkme, taigi, gali iš tiesų ką nors pradėti kritikuoti (keista, kad apie juos iš viso buvo pagalvota). Ir pakeičiami tiesiog lojaliais sistemai, t. y., galiai, saugiais beveidžiais (karjeros) statistais. Taigi, galios institucijoje susimuliuojama diskusija apie „pasipriešinimą galiai“. Projektas užskaitomas kaip puikiai pavykęs, nes jam reikia ne tikros diskusijos, o tinkamai parinktos aktorių grupės, kalbančios abstrakcijomis, ir tiksliai atliekančios išmoktus vaidmenis. Užburtas ratas. Ir tai ne koks nepaprastas įvykis, o kasdienybė ‒ meno (ir edukacinės) sistemos veikimo standartas, klišė. O šio sisteminės simuliacijos formato esmė ‒ tiesiog ritualinė.

Taigi, sistemos simuliacijų tikrasis tikslas ‒ ne ieškoti prasmės, o ją paslėpti ir pakeisti tuščiaviduriais dublikatais. Prieš šią galingą propagandinę industriją itin sunku adekvačiai kovoti kritiniams sąjūdžiams ir idėjoms, sveikam protui apskritai. Oficiozinę meno sistemą visada gina arši subinlaižių karjeristų armija, sistema visada turi didesnius finansinius išteklius, žinoma, ir legitimacinę galią. Aišku, silpnoji kontrkultūrinių judėjimų pusė ta, kad dalis judėjimo dalyvių sąmoningai ar nesąmoningai yra užkrėsti sisteminio karjerizmo bacilos, paveikti menininko mentaliteto, todėl užkimba ant sistemos pakišų, kaip ir šiuo Tate Modern projekto atveju. Tada sistemai lengviau kontrkultūrinius sąjūdžius pateikti kaip „meninio avangardo“ sąjūdžius, kurie tenori išsikovoti sau šiltesnę vietelę meno sistemoje ir dailės istorijoje. Kas yra visiška netiesa, nes tikslas ‒ ne į jas patekti, o jas demaskuoti ir sunaikinti.

Taigi, Tate Modern kaip tik ir yra vienas simuliacijos gigantų ir monstrų. Institucijos tinklalapyje skelbiama, kad „futbolo“ projekte bus „tyrinėjami santykiai tarp futbolo, meno ir tapatumo“.[1] Žinoma, visos trys ‒ meno, futbolo ir tapatumo ‒ sąvokos suvokiamos išimtinai sistemos sankcionuotuose biurokratiniuose-komerciniuose rėmuose.

Sekantis žingsnis ‒ ši „tapatumo tyrinėjimų“ imitacija tuojau pat susiejama su prekiniais ženklais pagal visus rinkodaros ir pri(ch)vatizacijos dėsnius. Susaistoma su garsiais brandais ‒ figūruoja prestižinių komercinių-propagandinių renginių, kompanijų, futbolo klubų pavadinimai, futbolo ir kitų sričių žvaigždžių pavardės ir t. t. O visa ši propagandinė mišrainė pabaigai dar susiejama su konkrečiomis karjeros kuratorių ir menininkų pavardėmis. Taip propagandinis ideologinis-komercinis vartojimo ratas užsidaro. Maža to, atvirai iš kontrkultūrininkų pavogtos ir konjunktūrininkų perdirbtos idėjos tuojau pat tampa tų konjunktūrininkų nuosavybe ‒ tą pačią akimirką įsigalioja korporacijoms naudingos autorinės teisės, kurias „gina įstatymas“. Taip veikia bet kuri oficiali (meno) sistema, tame tarpe ir mūsų.

Taigi, reaguodami į Tate Modern ciniškas manipuliacijas, Londono psichodarbininkai paskelbė atsakymą, kurį čia ir pateikiame.

[(galbūt) Redas Diržys ir (galbūt) Kęstutis Šapoka]

 

[1] „Grab your boots and kit as Tate Exchange explores the relationship between art, football and identity“ https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/who-are-ya

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Я ничем не примечателен, и рассказывать о себе, наверное, бессмысленно. Да и нелегко откровенничать. Но так, как я тоже считаю себя членом союза живых и мертвых работников психического труда, притом, мысленно участвую в этом путешествии по тропам раннего и/или позднего леттризма… притом, речь идет не столько обо мне, сколько о мечте… будет простительно упомянуть о себе. Иронично, что хотя я идеологически присоединяюсь к товарищам и к ихней (нашей) коллективной борьбе с капиталистической системой искусства, в тоже время я страдаю от социофобии – страха людей и коллективных сборищ – невротическим расстройством, порожденным именно капиталистическим строем. К тому же, побочный эффект этого расстройства – мне трудно путешествовать, находиться в чужих, незнакомых местах, притом, с незнакомыми людьми. Это наводит на меня жуткий страх. Потому, я в своей жизни, за границей был всего несколько раз, и то, не по своему желанию, а больше по стечению обстоятельств, больше по чужой воле и вине.

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[The following letter from my old-time-friend Howard was sent some years ago, this initiative does not met support from colleagues, but I found it important to share the deep psychic activity of the whole intention even there were used retrograde terms from the Age of Divinity. - Redas Diržys, ABRACADABRA-C]



Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is with great enthusiasm that I write to you, to share with you a small window of opportunity that is currently open to us.

As we all know, The Western art world has undergone tremendous changes over the past 50-years – caused mostly by gentrification. Artist established neighborhoods in New York like SoHo and Tribeca, and around the Western world are now ultra expensive – and the current reincarnation of Berlin is gentrifying at a rapid pace. The artists, ever creative in these endeavors, will no doubt find new places to migrate.

A friend of mine in Berlin whose family owns the 19-room Villa, on the Black Sea in Venus, Romania, has just informed me that just 50-meters from their property is an abandoned convention center that was built by the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, in the 1950s.

Since Ceausescu was deposed 1989, this property has been fenced off and has remained unused. The property has been protected and is in good condition. There has been no interior vandalism - and on the exterior a few outdoor lighting globes have been stolen, which can be easily replaced with inexpensive facsimiles.

I am told that this property van be purchased for between €300,000.00 and €400,000.00 Euros.

I am proposing that a group of us art people form an association, to purchase this complex, and convert it into an international art center. The Razelm Contemporary Art Cente Association would be an appropriate name for the group.

Romania joined the European Union (EU) on January 1st 2007.

 

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Botoşani (Romania) is the birth place of the last self proclaimed Messiah Isidore Isou (1925-2007) who was the founder of Lettrism and the location where the main postulates of lettrism were formulatad.

Alinja (Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan) is the death place of the last of prophets Fazlallah Astarabadi (d. 1394) – the founder of Ḥurūfī (lettrist) movement.

Alytus Biennial took the year 2007 (the death year of Isidore Isou) to reshape it into Art Strike Biennial what eventually obtained the form of Psychic Strike Biennial.

Both Alytus (Lithuania) and Botoşani were founded arround the year 1400 and had some reverberations with the transformations of The Golden Horde.

The period between years 1394 and 2007 psychic workers (generated by Alytus biennial attendees) are used to call The Age of Divinity.

The event to happen on August 10th through 31, 2019 and planned as farewell to the Age of Divinity and welcoming a new age of something could be called The Age of Proletarian Animism

Few basic principles:

The event has no any symbolical meaning – this is rather about quantum time loops which are just very few to be listed above. The point is to look for the dreams of the psychic workers connected to Alytus events and re-located at the southern semi-circle of the Black Sea.

Its about unfulfilled dreams, and about spirituality which is left after embodying of the dreams comes to limit or ruins, about the catching those dreams and continuing on this path. Its about living. As some years ago Ben Morea in Alytus biennial has formulated – none of the former revolutionaries took seriously the liberation of spirituality and it was left to the mysticism of religions and/or cultural mystifications.

Lettrism is not an art form and it could be explained as the means that correspond elimination (or not inclusion) of neither abstraction (in writing/conceptualizing and/or visuality), nor symbolism; and transcends the separation of visuality and verbality. This is the main issue for the whole travel so far it incudes Fazlullah – the mystic, who lost his head because of invention of some letters while rewriting Curran, and Isou – the one, who introduced letrism to European avant-garde.

While trying to avoid abstraction and symbolicism during the Alytus Biennial events psychic workers elaborated few forms of construction of situation – that is what we aim to do at any selected site. The mostly developed form was that of 3 sided football (it derived out of lettrism through situationism when merged with quantum mechanics by Niels Bohr). 3SF was able to subsume various artistic specializations: constructing the goalposts from found materials (vulg. sculpture), stripes (vulg. painting, dress design), continuous reinvention of the rules and improvisation (vulg. performance art), sound production (vulg. music) etc.

Its already almost a year when we quit discussion on 3 sided football word cup organizing. So far Madrid event (2018) ended up victoriously for dead workers from Cementerio de La Almudena they took a lead on further organizing the worldcupism routine tradition. This time dead workers and abracadabra invites you all to join for the first 3 sided peregrination football world cups sequence which will start with the tournament in Scortoasa (Romania) on 10th August, 2019 and will end in Bucharest with black moon tournament on 30th August, Bucharest (exact place not appointed yet).

Dates and locations

  1. August 10th – Animist 3SF World Cup in Scortoasa (Romania) mud volcanoes field – besides having incredible and challenging site to play experimental form of soccer it also is great opportunity to get some resources of clay/mud which we were used for self-decoration and even healing in our activities. Also mud/clay culture in the area around the Black sea has a long lasting cultural tradition (the clay clinics in Soviet Union Crimea were immediately closed when western pharmacy took over the control of the medicine industry.
  2. August 11th, Psychic Workers 3SF World Cup in:

2.1. Sapoca (Romania) town – it has a biggest asylum for insane people.

Psychiatric Hospital and Safety Measures Sapoca is a hospital in Buzău County. It was founded in 1960 on the site of a school of crafts. Spitalul Săpoca is the largest of its kind in the country. More on Psychiatry Under Communist Dictatorship in Romania – here. apparently one of our comrades – Kęstutis Šapoka – recognized his own name in the location’s and also his interests (including doctoral thesis) correspond the location mood.

2.2. Bozioru, Buzau (Romania) – great place to start by (re)vitalizing our own telepathic abilities – a psychic worker is something to be. It‘s also about recognizing the location in the name of psychic worker‘s Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău – URMUZ 

2.3. Sfentu Anna crater with a lake in the mountains, the exciting quality of the place is that there are many wild bears (grizzlies) around - so if they come to be included into the real animistic 3SF game – there are some reverberations with last year proposal for organizers of 3SF "world cup" in Madrid (they were organizing the event in corrida arena) to involve also the team of bulls – that resulted exclusion of psychic workers from the (footballers‘) event... this time we can realize the animist power – the event would be planned over the night so far grizlies usually appear then. We should elaborate the rule of technical defeat as apllied to 3SF for those teams who will decide to skip the particular games.

  1. August 12th – Dead workers‘ 3SF world cup in Botosani, Romania – possible location: old jewish cemetary.
  2. August 13th – Vasluj, Romania – (possibly) meeting Laurențiu Ginghină, who invented non-aggressive form of off-football – Infinite football - the idea is to combine his ideas with those of 3 sided football. So Infinite Football World Cup.
  3. August 14th – The Conventionally Transmittive 3SF World Cup in

5.1. Saturn, Romania (embodying into a dream of Howard McCalebb to arrange Razelm Contemporary Art Center and Venus biennial in abandoned convention center, build by former Romanian dictator Ceausescu near-by his own summer residency, which is now residency of current president of Romania) – the utopian idea of paradise for artists.

5.2. Kaliakra in Balgarevo (Bulgaria) – the Kaliakra transmitter build in 1988 – was intended to act as a relay transmitter for Southeast Europe, but construction stopped a year later after the collapse of communism. At that time, nine of the ten planned masts, some soaring more than 500 feet into the sky, had been completed. Today, they stand unused as a monument to the consolidated power the region was once known for – ideal place to play 3SF in terms of space and psychic openness.

  1. August 15th – The World Cup for Unrealized Possibilities of 3SF at Arkutino School for Gifted Children (Bulgaria) - an unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.
  2. August 16th – Edirne (Turkey) - which from 1369 to 1453 was capital of the Ottoman Empire. It was here that "Certain accursed ones of no significance" were publicly burnt for their heretical lettrist opinions - some say Ali ul ʿAli, who was groom to Astarabadi himself met his end in this sorrowful affair (proposal from Fabian).
  3. August 16th-17th – Psychogeography in Istanbul - at the point where Europe and Asia have their supposed intercourse.

Majority of all participants will gather there - should be a great meeting.

  1.      August 18th

9.1. Kütahya, Turkey– the city is famed for its tiles, and many downtown buildings are covered from tip to toe with ceramics. To this can be added swathes of unspoiled Ottoman architecture, museums housed in 14th-century seminaries, fantastic restaurants – and no tourist kitsch... it’s so easy to tune yourself into local culture in a place like this.

Aizanoi – ancient amfiteater and stadium....

9.2. Eskişehir -  the old town here has tried to cash in on the current Turkish “Ottomania” trend, painting its imperial buildings in saffron, aquamarine, lime and other friendly colours. It makes for a truly enchanting scene, especially when the aforementioned colours are ignited at sunset; local tourists come in dribs and drabs, but foreign travellers stay away – the last note sounds promising. I would propose here to tune into colour.

  1. August 19th (Cappadokia)

  1. August 20th - Victoricidal 3SF World Cup in Boğazkale & Hattusa (Turkey) - one of the first mentioned cases of regicide - Mursili I was executed by his own soldiers in 1526 BC. This the question of boss in contemporary society – the question of organizing (3SF world cup) as well. Especially that in Hattusa there are remnants of some Hittites’ stuff resembling goalposts – some western historians were used to call it sculptures, or even art, but goalposts could be much more of use then art.

Amasya – a city which does actually receive a few foreign tourists. And so it should, for this is a place of great beauty – the city centre is squeezed into a tight valley, with charming Ottoman buildings peppering the northern flank, and a series of spectacular mosques piercing the skyline on the opposite side of the river. Some of the Ottoman buildings have been converted into boutique guesthouses; these intriguing wooden structures, so clever in their design, make a great place to kick back for a few days, especially when you throw in a few trips to the nearby steam baths, which themselves are a few centuries old.

Tokat – the main reason to visit is culinary – the chance to sample Tokat’s famously gigantic kebabs. They’re simply huge, a mixture of roast lamb, potatoes, aubergine, tomato and peppers, grilled under a bulb of garlic. My proposition – tuning into flavour.

Sivas – “real Turkey” city in the land. There’s a rarified quality to the air here, though this should come as no great surprise in a city sitting almost 1,300m above sea-level. At the very centre of Sivas lies the city’s pride and joy: a clutch of buildings – some whole, some in bits – dating back to Selçuk times. My own personal magnet is the swallow-filled courtyard of the Bürüciye Medresesi, a seminary founded in 1271.

  1. August 21 st

Doğubeyazıt (Ararat)

13-14.   August 22-23rd – Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan and Əlincə (the shrine of Fazlullah Hurufi) – Huruffiyya 3SF World Cup; D.I.Y. sound making event in the mountains. Tune into sound.

  1. August 24th - Humanitarian 3SF World Cup in Kars (Turkey) - Monument to Humanity, at the unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide. To finaly to burry nationalisms, inherited from bipolar football. Great place where destructive and psychic workers meet without ending-up into the victory of nationalisms.

Play in Ani and Die 3SF World Cup

  1. August 25th. Batumi.

17-19.   August 26-28 – taking the ferry boat from Batumi or Poti (Georgia) to Varna or Burgas (Bulgaria) – desakalapatragraph (resuming of common experiences) and marin version of urban poker (game with found cards) on the deck acompanied by truck drivers and dolphins in a Black Sea.

  1. August 29th – The Petrified Workers 3SF World Cup in Slanchevo, Bulgaria - Pobiti Kamani Stones: Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest – great site for 3SF.
  2. August 30th – the Black Super New Moon 3SF World Cup, Bucharest – exact location is not appointed yet.

You are welcome to join at any point... or you are free to choose whatsover another point on or near-by of our proposed route. Or join in a psychic way.

For the end – there is a story: in some late 19th century Siberian shamans hosted the souls of the revolutionaries of Paris Commune (those, who died unhappily and were disturbing the aether) and buried them in the lake Baikal. After that the amount of the fishes increased many times in Baikal. Hope something similar will happen in Black Sea as well.

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Dear Fellow Workers,

Thank you for your hospitality in hosting us for the 2nd Worldcup 3-sided football

We want to make some points about this event - and some suggestions to you on the organisation

the internationalist, progressive and socialist spirit of the rosecrucian manifestos published in

kassel 400 years ago is today evident in a wholly corrupted and reactionary form of the european union.  coming from london at a time of brexitted degeneration of this corrupted dream we  write to you with the benefit of our industrial union of psychic,  reproductive and destructive non-workers formed by some of those who have been developing the form of 3 sided football since the very first time it was publicly played in 1993.

Firstly we must discuss the association with documenta which is undeniable and cannot be ignored.

as you may know documenta, like the proto EU of ECSC, was started after the defeat of the national socialist party  in order to address the banning and burning of much progressive and innovative

psychic production in germany at the time. it took the agenda of forwarding moderninst and avantgarde art. however this orientation showed then and still shows its neo-liberal agenda.

neoliberalism is the motor of the capitalist war machine that continues to decimate the planet through capitalist  gentrification and ethnic cleansing of the cities and all the planet, through climate change, species genocide,

in solidarity with the g20 mobilisation we suggest a statement from yourselves distancing the event

from the neoliberal art agenda of documenta.

secondly the idea of a world cup itself is problem for a few reaons:

The vast majority of teams in the silkebourg cup were european. it was thus a very eurocentric idea of the world. furthermore the world cup format promotes nationalist consciousness. even regional organisations do the same.

whoever wins in this world cup will promote national consciousness. this would be true even for the refugee team - already the myth of a progressive germany that champions refugees serves only to justify the european neo imperial machinations across the world and of course in europe itself and at its borders as frontex stage manages the murder of thousands in the mediteranian sea.

we therefore suggest that the scoring of the game break completely from the 1-sided method of linear counting of conceded goals leading to elimination finals. there are various ways we could do this. one alternative is to adopt the triolectical scoring methods that have been developed by the Luther Blissett London League

https://strategicoptimismfootball.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/triolectical-league-tables-luther-blissett-deptford-3-sided-football-league-9ap-2016-17-vulg/

alternatively we could simply decide that all teams would be declared joint winners before hand.

Finally we want to make the choice plain – between the past, present or future – between name, nation or situation – betweeen aristocracy, bourgeois or proletariat: this triolectical situation is engendered by 

1 national socialism and the empires of east and west,

2 the neoliberism and its recuperation of the rosecrucians and situationists or

3 the realisation of the impossible: international revolution

we come to play: not to win or to lose but to overturn the spectacle through the creation of a new situation.

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The selection of ABRACADABRA (who’s origin in "avada kedavra” is an invocation to ‘let it (the thing) be destroyed) and that of FIASCo - (the origins of which are ‘fare il fiasco’ - the looser buys the next bottle - or "it will all end in failure”) - seemed to hint that the great festival of triolectics which the Kathalytus ’played out’ might be nudging its final chapter

The LIST is dead - long live the LIST

'A reprendre depuis le début’

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To me 3Sf is still little too much about ball, goal posts and different conditions/limitations. And – damned – newly the context criteria appeared.

I was excited to have chance to see friends after a long time, not so excited that it was gonna happen in Kassel though – simply because I don’t like affiliating to other events and also because it was quite faraway.

Not so insistent suggestion to make it in some more attractive (and closer to Libušín) place for example in Siófok didn’t create sufficient resonance so – eventually – we happily boarded the Alytus bus in Dresden together with my daughter Evička who by the way became the most anti stereotyped player of the whole cup – as far as I know she touched the ball just twice by accident and never on purpose despite the fact she played at least in 25 matches or maybe even more.

Reading the reports I realised I am lost in abbreviations partly because of my progressing dementia partly because I never really remembered what most of them meant and now in the moment of splitting into factions it’s extremely difficult to reconstruct the meaning plus find the reason why the used one is belonging to particular position.

Anyway... I have always felt kind of disproportion in so much overestimating the power of definitions in our discussions and texts – in a way supporting and even developing the criticized europocentric talkative and word oriented tradition.

The meaning superior to the feeling.

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The question about attending the 2nd World Cup of 3SF in Kassel was discussed for about 10 months and resulted in split of DAMTP into faction of political analysts and critics who need a clear program of action which supposedly would protect from recuperation into capitalist spectacle, and the gamers, who formed LUNATIC FRINGE FOR TRIOLECTICS (LUFT-DAMTP) specially to attended Kassel and to save the game from further footballization.

[ideological ingression///egression] - The first (political) faction had their arguments:

DAMTP should act in the way workers‘ organizations do (CLASS)

3SF and DAMTP will be recuperated by documenta spectacle and the only way to act against it is to fight it outside the Kassel – in Athens, Alytus or whatsoever other place (DAMTP German factions: OKK, Polaris)

Asemic writing activities should take leadership against 3SF (Asemic International and CLASS wrote the manifesto, publicized it and asked those who agree to sign it. Nobody else from DAMTP signed it so far, but ABRACADABRA triolectisized it with some comments attributed)

Ceci n'est pas le 3SF (Richard Essex)

 

[labor ingression///degression] - LUFT-DAMTP (FIASCO, NXTPA, ABRACADABRA) had their arguments:

The system should be gamed, Kathalytus must be build

To reclaim triolectics for 3SF not to be binarized

Self-organization without doctrine

To play with a black hole instead of a ball

 

[disingression] - CLASS attended Kassel with clear program to destroy documenta and the world cup.

Bogdanov have warned about dangers of war communism in a very dawn of Bolshevik revolution.

The domination of destructive workers makes a bigger revolutionary effect (spectacle), but infects the society to organize in a way based on destruction.

[disingression] - None of the DAMTP‘s from Germany were present in Kassel and so their input for comrades was formalized in 3 texts from 3 years ago and it was more about warning then guiding.

 

[conjugation] - ABRACADABRA initiated the discussion about necessity to have a space for meeting and organizing as well for meeting local unorganized workers – as DAMTP has on its constitution. The room was arranged in the local Art Academy students‘ place near Central railway station. There was arranged desakalapatragraph: DXTPA, ABRACADABRA, FIASCO and local psychic workers, who attended the meeting collectively investigated the site, put together their knowledge and set up the plan for local actions. 2 local workers joined DAMTP‘s in the further gaming. This meeting was announced in documenta papers and it infuriated some DAMTP‘s because of alleged recuperation, but social engineering as tactics was always present in Alytus Psychic (Art) Strike Biennial events since its mentioning as tactics in the first resolution Action Committee of Alytus Art Strike Conference in 2008. One of the great discoveries of ABRACADABRA was that anybody can get a free ticket for documenta just by saying abracadabra at the documenta information center, but other DAMTP‘s didn‘t tried even...either because of some phobias to become abracadabra, or for being recognized. Though LUFT-DAMTP‘s invented another great tactics to get free access for paid exhibition venues – simply to kick a ball into the space, and then to go for grabbing it from there – it worked too.

[disingression] - CLASS was insisting on meeting and/or contacting organized workers and activists – IWW‘s, Nobody is Illegal etc. and wrote an open letter-manifesto for their meeting in the same space. Nobody (including the initiator) showed up.

[disingression///separate complexes] - The pre-event on-line discussion showed clearly that DAMTP came into a phase of taking the roles – of workers, activists, artists etc – that what Marx warned about – and also about the false roles as it happens in Paris Commune.

Already since a little bit earlier we were not being able to write a collective text without tolerance to each other’s words. Instead of following the line of metagraphy we eventually returned backwards to the texts.

During the last year as DAMTP‘s we‘ve divided ourselves into specializations of artists and politicians – we stept on the same raker as all previous counter-cultural organizations starting from dada and ending with fluxus and situationists did. Shame on us!

[disingression] - We are afraid of being recuperated by the capitalist system and spectacle? But the fear of recuperation is exactly what recuperation is all about. The problem lays in overrated self-significance and lack of self-criticism. Indeed, we are afraid of being caricatures.

[ingression] - I am happy we were able to be caricatures of ourselves when in Kassel. ABRACADABRA was a caricature of an art organization, CLASS – of militant organization, FIASCO and NXTPA – of the physicality or something else. Besides that - Alytus biennial always was a caricature of biennial and The End of the Age of Divinity – caricature of doctrine (at least that is how I saw it). Even those who didn‘t attend Kassel – I am leaving for them to recognize caricatures in themselves.

[disingression] - We are still not able to withstand obsession with symbolism in our actions, hypergraphy and texts. I want to improve previous report by CLASS and to assure that the destruction of the trophy was not an accidental move by occasionally present worker, but ideologically prepared (declared in advance) gesture to (symbolically) destroy world cup. But the world cup was not destroyed – destroyed was just a letter, produced by our fellow worker. The only question what later LUFT-DAMTP‘s got few times was: „does anybody got the photo of the smashed cup?“. The process of reading a letter – suppresses and realizes it, but destroying turns it into a symbol.

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Reproductive Unionisation of Destructive Industries (RUDI) invite you to join us in strike against neoliberal cultural capital production!

There is no possibility of either political or artistic revolution – rather we need to organise as psychic reproductive and destructive workers. Rudi Dutschke’s calls to destroy NATO have been realised and recuperated by the German state with their EU army in policing the borders of the EU and the Situationists unitary urbanism recuperated by the IDF in their ethnic cleansing programs. We return to Dutschke’s calls for solidarity with third world Marxists by raising the banned banners of the PKK and YPG in our hypergraphics and DesaKalaPatraGraphics to form monstrations and attack documents and 3sf events in realising Frank Fanons call for decolonisation as ” the creation of a new culture, a new language and a new humanity”

The session will consist of

1 short presentation on the alytus art strike and the methods of situgraphy aka esaKalaPatraGraphy and monstration

See https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Monstration

2 a practical making exercise and then

3 planning session for interventions into the football and documenta events of the following days

We will begin at around 10am and break for lunch before the plenary planning session

All plenary sessions will commence with OPSINA where the voices of women comrades and of black comrades are exclusively privileged in order to set the agenda for the meeting.

Please feel free to pass on this invite to other comrades

1st session will commence at 10am Friday 18th August, Kunsthochechule Kassel

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Art strike as a recuperated vehicle for celebrity artists (eg J20 art strike 2017) can only be overcome by organising as an industrial union - not as artists but by questioning the construction of art itself - as psychic workers. This allows us to also organise around, attack and overturn related bourgeois constructions such as politics, philosophy, education, sports and any other industrial complex that currently maintains the spectacle.

We invite you to join us, tÐعŲM委п ال DAta Miners & Travailleurs Psychique/ DعðŲ Miners психический 工人委 ال - established at the end of the age of divinity in 2007 with the dead workers union, the reproductive and destructive workers unions, for a general Obschina.

Therefore Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distribution of its Aberrant Bacillus Right Abroad – Committee (ABRACADABRA-C) invites all working and not working in Kassel or elsewere as artists, activists or from other industries to unionize in gaming the system with 3 sided football and triolectics as opposed to binary thinking, and with situlogy and situgraphy, which were invented by Asger Jorn just in the same time when he was abstractified into a spectacle by the documenta II in 1959.

We start at 6pm Thursday 17th August, 10PC (2017 vulg.), Kunsthochechule space KMMN, Franz-Ulrich-Straße 16, Kassel.

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The spectacles of Europe have been exorcized by Communism. The Proletariat, defeated by the European Bourgeoisise in the 1st and 2nd world wars has finally secured victory in 2007 and succeeded in proletarianising all of the world.

BUT

There is a spectacle of terror produced by Europe. and all the bourgeois powers unite in an unholy alliance to produce it. Where is the opposition that has not been branded terrorist and where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of spectacular terrorism?

And as no one declares themselves terrorist it is up to us to make our aims known as terrorists in the face of the whole world. We are the proletarians of the psychic factories of data called the spectacle. And we overturn this spectacle.

We invite all working or not working in Kassel and elsewhere, as artists or activists or any other service industry or other industry, to organise with us as Psychic Workers, Reproductice Workers, Destructive Workers, Asemic Workers.

We do not reject “safe” life presented in Kassel and we have no intention of establishing the borders of the only possible LIFE. we welcome freedom. But the freedom of your ‘life’ has spread too far and has steamrolled over all other ways of production. Capitalism has perverted life, narrowed its potential down to consumption and hedonism, deprived it of the moment of creation as the part of development.

Today European patriarchal white supremacy, in other words capitalism, declares terrorist to mean Muslim and Muslim to mean Black. Black as in black race, black energy, black mass, black matter. We terrorists are not animals or humans or gods or machines. We are something new. We do not constrain ourselves in gender, race or linguistic distinctions – but we are aware of how the agents of the state and CLASS society instrumentalise these sub classes against us.

We wonder: what should the life be like today? How can it unite us? What new practices are we able to invent? By liberating life from the chokehold of institution, of capital, by returning it to the means of living and dying: labour.

We terrorists, believe that life is fluid, permanently mutable, while every fixed form tends to turn into custom, tradition, and finally to a game as in case with three-sided football. From the practice of overriding the stigma, from the practice of breaking binary oppositions it turned into the ritual sanctified by community, similar to Friday-bear-drinking in a narrow circle of friends. No form can exist more than several years with no risk of stiffening. This is hard to avoid as the human mind has a constant striving for the invention of new rules, for living in accordance with norms and patterns, with idleness permanently rejecting renovation and development. Life should not imitate political institutions that show themselves in decrees and orders, institutions that still employ the vicious structures of the Party. With life being anarchic in its core, we declare:

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