tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42368581549328803612023-06-20T21:41:49.176-07:00The CollectiveWe are The Collective, we are everyone. We are everyone who's ever said "I could do that", we are everyone who's had a brilliant idea and then found out it's already been done, we are everyone who's ever seen a brilliant idea and said "I wish I'd thought of that". We are not I, we are you.The Collectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137421290510000025noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236858154932880361.post-23693063902501568262007-02-22T15:14:00.000-08:002007-02-22T15:17:22.069-08:00The Dadaist manifesto by Ribemont-Dessaignes. Feb 1920.<br /><br />TO THE PUBLIC<br />Before going down among you to pull out your decaying <br />teeth, your running ears, your tongue full of sores, <br />Before breaking your putrid bones,<br />Before opening your cholera infested belly and taking <br />out for use as fertiliser your too fatted liver, your ignoble <br />spleen and your diabetic kidneys,<br />Before tearing out your ugly sexual organ, incontinent <br />and slimy,<br />Before extinguishing your appetite for beauty, ecstasy, sugar, <br />philosophy, mathematical and poetic metaphysical <br />pepper and cucumbers,<br />Before disinfecting you with vitriol, cleansing you and <br />shellacking you with passion,<br />Before all of that,<br />We shall take a big antiseptic bath,<br />And we warn you<br />We are murderers.<br /><br /><br />The Collective’s First Manifesto<br />July 2006<br /><br />TO THE ARTISTS<br />Before going down among you to rip off your naïve<br />doodles, your vain self portraits, your clichéd colour palette,<br />Before plundering your MTV imagination,<br />Before pilfering your paintings, abstract because you can’t <br />fucking paint, embezzling your anti-Bush caricature that you<br />think will stop the war,<br />Before committing daylight robbery of sketches you’re too<br />cack-handed to stick on a wall,<br />Before poaching the research based solely on your <br />nauseating off spring, your incontinent grandparents, your<br />impotent lover,<br />Before stealing your life’s work and showing it for <br />what it truly is,<br />Before all of that,<br />We shall hold a paralytic orgy of a brainstorm,<br />And we warn you,<br />We are plagiarists.<br /><br /><br />The Nice Maifesto February 2007<br /><br />TO THE ARTISTS<br />Before falling down amongst you to honour your tenacious <br />strokes, your heartbreaking self-portraits, your awesome <br />patience,<br />Before emulating your sublime creations,<br />Before venerating your paintings, from vigorous abstraction <br />to figurative realism, echoing your earnest political comment,<br />Before submerging ourselves in your enlightening company <br />to hide our unbearable inadequacies,<br />Before lionizing your optimism in the face of melancholic <br />truths, your fearless leaps into the void, your perseverance <br />on the impossible original, <br />Before merely imitating your life’s work and showing <br />obeisance to your unyielding dedication,<br />Before all of that,<br />We shall plead for your humble forgiveness,<br />And we warn you,<br />We are plagiarists.The Collectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137421290510000025noreply@blogger.com1