vivienne westwood started off the day with her manifesto active resistance to propaganda, which she wrote a couple of years earlier and noted that today she might not have written it, because she believes the world will basically be crumbling into nothing in just 100 years and thinks she wouldn't have had it in her today. regardless of this small fact, she noted she still believed all of it and wished the audience to practice and follow it as well. her manifesto, written in the form of a play and adapting characters of lewis carroll's alice in wonderland, aristotle, and pinocchio, notes of the importance of the artist's and he or she taking part in alternate realities; yet the urgency for the artist to recognize the importance of being human and from this constantly pushing oneself to culturally grow, and this will bring about the change the world needs. occasionally westwood went on minor digression where her true composure and intelligence shined through, and the audience could truly acknowledge the unique set of ideas she has brought forth in her fashion and as an overall artist, while on top of it all keeping her rad aesthetic as seen in her carrot-orange hear and the white turban cap she wore with the word 'chaos' scribbled on it. now that is one icon i truly admire and her presence left me spinning with inspiration.
another female icon and highlight of the day's events was no other than yoko ono. running a tad late, her small asian presence was quickly made up for her attire of a black, sparkly top-hat, gently leaning towards the left, and oval, lennon-esque shades at the brim of her nose at seven at night next to her strong, high-pitched voice. she presented a quick manifesto in which repetitions on love and peace reoccurred numerous times without fail, and she ended it with: "we have a lot of work to do, but let's do it dancing and loving it!" at first she appears to be just this crazy little lady stuck in the 'we have to do something' thought of vietnam, but then you realize how wonderful it is to have that very attitude in the sea of our current disillusioned, apathetic society, and you just want to truly imagine and believe that this all could very well be possible. yoko then showed a quasi instructional video that explained her current performance art in which she wants everyone to flash lights (clicking them on in synchronized frequencies) as a new way to say "i love you". these signals of love she wants to then be sent across the world and the universe. only yoko. yet, she ended it all with a full-blown bang where she declared dance music be put on and jumped down from the stage and made everyone dance with her. i danced amongst yoko. oh boy, what a wonderful moment.
here are some more recaps/highlights from the big day of manifestos:
richard wentworth : went through a list of things that everyone should have done before higher education. some favorites were appreciate difference, learn you don't need to measure, work at place where paper is made, and he then ended it by telling everyone else to make their own list.
gilbert and george: snappily dressed in contrasting pastel suits got up and recited four manifestos. the first is the law of sculptors, which they wrote in 1969.
1. always be smartly dress well groomed relaxed friendly polite and in complete control
2. make the world to believe in you and to pay heavily for this privilege
3. never worry assess discuss or criticize but remain quiet respectable and calm
4. the lord chissels still, so don't leave your bench for long
their fourth manifesto was called ban religion where they simply repeated 'ban religion' 4 times.
ben vautier: went on a rant about art being ego and went on to pass out blank, white sheets of paper as his manifesto and went through a brief history of other notable performances. he spruced things up with much needed comedy in sometimes a realm of too serious thinking. he ended with 'just smile' and then quickly showed a sign that read suicide.
jean-jacques lebel: did a long, theatrical speech constructed out of several languages (some seemed to be imaginative), ending in english with, 'peace in the world or the world in pieces.'
mark wallinger: gave a 2o minute speech in which he drew from several areas going from nirvana to buzz lightyear of toy story. here are some of my tid-bits i caught, run against the boundaries of language; lust is endless; these are the rules but the rules are nonsense; shit and live shit and die; metaphors are like clowns with buckets of confetti running after you; we fear the end but at least it is the end; buzz lightyear and existential crisis
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