rebel:art

Influenza, exaggeration, 2006

NO NEW ENEMIES

No new enemies because if there is something like a truth it must be a truth for all. No new enemies because life is violent and we must be tender though not gentle. No new enemies because a hero may wear a villain’s clothes. No new enemies because MTV makes you sick. No new enemies because authenticity is not a brand. No new enemies because everything is subjective, ethics included. No new enemies because we no longer have time for idiots. No new enemies because we are nothing more than idiots…. No new enemies if you have love to share.

They say nobody reads anymore. Still here? You’re nobody. Congratulations, you’re everybody. Feel right at home and try to pay attention please. Start from the point that this is an opinion not a sermon and we’re about to jump around a lot.

Plato wanted to ban the poets from the city. Yeah – it was his fucking idea and this rationale remains in place today. Photoshop has more death than possibilty.

If you claim to be tolerant you prove you already are not fuck zero telerance and tolerance too – evolution not revolution. “In mathematics, there is only one way to be nothing, but there are infinite ways to be infinite.”

Understanding art, begins with forgetting art – disregarding illusions of good taste and the relevance of sales.

Before that – forget fashion, forget language, forget to remember – just feel … feel and be stripped of techno color and the myth of should.

“The road to hell was paved with good intentions.” Assume responsibility for what you create. Assume your perversity.

Support you local dissident (aka vandal)! Support your local artists! Support fucking thought and imagination!

Aus dem “No new enemies“-Manifest: Mitglieder des weltweiten Urban Expressionism-Netzwerkes sind Influenza, Robbie Conal, PEZ und viele andere. Mehr im Modart magazine, creative action = active creation, einem wirklich schoenen Street Culture Magazin. Ausgabe 6 und 9 sind als PDF online.