I attended yesterday the last semininar on Feminist Art organised by nparadoxa at the ICA. Katy Deepwell transported us through history by starting with the 'unknown' Valentine de Saint Point, writing at the same time and in reaction to the Futurist Manifesto by Marinetti to more contemporary manifestos such as the "100 anti-theses on cyberfeminism" by the Old Boys Network.
The links to all manifestos presented and read during yesterday's session can be found in here.
I have read this one:
Anges Denes: A Manifesto 1970
Working with a paradox
defining the elusive
visualizing the invisible
communicating the incommunicable
not accepting the limitations society has accepted
seeing in new ways
living for a fraction of a second and penetrating light years
using intellect and instinct to achieve intuition
achieving total self-consciousness and self-awareness
being creatively obsessive
questioning, reasoning, analyzing, dissecting and re-examining
understanding the finitude of human existence and still striving to create beauty and provocative reasoning
finding new concepts, recognizing new patterns
desiring to know the importance or insignificance of existence
seeing reality and still being able to dream
persisting in the eternal search
copyright 1970 agnes denes
