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MANIFESTO on MANIFESTISM
12017-04-02T19:25:21-07:00Kelly Kirklande1805e502570d093d70f00df18f145c99290d0a3120411Manifesto to accompany Kelly and AB's book pageplain2017-04-02T19:25:21-07:00Kelly Kirklande1805e502570d093d70f00df18f145c99290d0a3
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12017-04-03T06:43:55-07:00MANIFESTI on an ISM17Student Group Manifesti and Design Sketchgallery2017-05-26T08:17:04-07:00
Student Group Manifesti and Design Sketches
The Russian Avant-garde is renowned for its contribution to the intellectual history of Modernist art and literature. In many ways, the various, rapidly changing and proliferating ideas, pronounced in tumultuous lectures and demonstrations, and recorded in artistic manifesti, have outshone the artifacts they purportedly explained. A balanced account of the period would more likely place manifesti alongside other cultural products, as just another genre of creative and intellectual expression, rather than above, or prior to.
To ground their creative work in intentional and spontaneous ideas, students in CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 and ARTS 227 formed artistic groups based upon commonly-espoused values and principles. They named their collectives and articulated their thoughts in jointly-authored manifesti.
"The Manifesto of Ismism," by The Society of Ideologians and Outtellectuals (Zoe, Stephen, Ian, & Saige): Manifesto; Design Sketch
"Imprecisionist Manifesto" by the Impercisionists (Tim and Taylor): Manifesto; Design Sketch
"The apocalyptic apostrophe apostasy," by Silent Poets of the Denotation Detonation​ (Dexter and Josh) Manifesto; Design Sketch
12017-04-01T11:03:58-07:00Group Project Proposals12A resource page for preparation and submission of materialsplain2017-04-03T06:41:42-07:00Students in ARTS 227 and CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 combine in self-selected groups to author and design page contributions to a course artist book. As a preliminary step toward their hands-on production work, groups devise a collective artistic identity, including a group name and a theoretical platform, articulated as an invented "ism" within a manifesto. Supplementary materials are due Sunday, April 1, 11:59pm, and posted as media (a jpg image and a pdf, respectively) to the course Scalar site by any member of CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 (to facilitate review of materials, please leave at comment in the speech bubble at the bottom of this page with direct links to the two Scalar media objects). Any group that does not have a member with a Scalar account should email the materials directly to cgilman@oxy.edu.
For inspiration and guidance in the creation of your own statements, browse through examples from the early Russian Avant-garde in the activity sheet and in the pdf below. George Maciunas's "Fluxus Manifesto" written a half-century later and an ocean away retains many of the same qualities and sensibilities. As you review these historical documents, consider:
What is the relationship between the gestures and ideas expressed in manifesti and the artwork they accompany?
Manifesti should account for significant formal and stylistic decisions in your page designs, such as selection and distribution of letters, choice of print v. handwritten text, color, and graphics, as well as the text and subject matter (if discernable). They may be as brief as an extended paragraph and as long as a page, can be written in stylized fashion, and must somehow include the following elements:
A group name (e.g. World of Art, Union of Youth, Hylaea, Donkey’s Tail)
An articulation of the key theoretical principles, socio-political aspirations, and aesthetic qualities and devices at play in the book page, and in the “ism.”
Group members may devise pseudonyms for the PDF submission, but must indicate their real names elsewhere