B 0.1 — Articulate intentions

My interest in art manifestos began almost ten years ago, after I got interested in Dadá. Theirs must have been the first one I read; striking, clear, against everything. "Dadá means nothing", Tzara writes, "A work of art should not be beauty in itself, for beauty is dead;". He shows an understanding and a disdain of art, central to Dadaism anti-art character.

Forgot about the existence of Manifestos until I found and saw Manifesto. A movie, a documentary, a collage of the most famous art manifestos. From there the concept have been in my mind, lurking and coming together now into this unstructured research that I'm planting now and I will be nurturing for the upcoming days, months and/or years.

Art manifestos teach us how to articulate in a few, concise bullet points what our intentions are and why.

"A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery of an instant cure for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis. It may be pleasant, and good-natured, it's always right, it's strong, vigorous and logical. Apropos of logic, I consider myself very likeable." — Tristan Tzara