John Doe Manifesto


Competition Manifesto 2011



'Not another f..ng manifesto'...



A recent VOXPOP conducted in the suburbs of Western Sydney produced a maelstrom of diverse contributions in all manner of expression, informed by the multicultural diversity of artistic interpretation and experience within this 'cutting edge' source of inspiration for many professional practitioners in tune with the 'avant garde'. An arbitrary, interwoven, ‘randomly ordered’ selection of the recorded responses presented the following post modernist slice of our cultural currency and their personal prescriptions for the 'now' manifesto;



'VOXPOP Manifesto 2011' 
John Doe

1. Purge the world of manifestos and art competitions; grants, residencies, awards set up/supported by the apparent interest from banks and telephone companies.... no skulls, classic muscle cars, appropriation or sensor technology.. No uncredited external assistance,

2. No more CNC machines operated without credit to the specialist, plastic moulding companies, or photo labs.. No sponsorship by water companies looking cool beside art, and lose the word Contemporary..

5. Graphic Design must be finally thrown into a full contact Cage Fight, and clarify the war with Contemporary Art.. and when did everyone become an OUTSIDER Artist? All artists to return to life drawing classes run by Hughe Hefner in collaboration with Rolf Harris.. modelling by Germaine Greer.

8. No further recycling of Op Shop art and porcelain figurines, stuffed animals, and crying self portraits.. Climb (free climb) from the 2D surface of the projection screen and introduce our children to the fourth dimension of reality.. Ween them in with a train ride, window as screen, and escort their senses into the view from a rooftop, a cubby house, a cliff side, a ladder beside the blank canvas areas, waiting to be teased by exploration and discovery. 


15. Enough video documentation of the mundane, the experiential monuments of the 'life sized' reduced to 16' x 9'. Are there any family photo albums; those sacred relics of personal memory, not raped by the tactical post modernist apparent appropriation, turning your mother and mine into objects shaped by gallery critique in glossy, invites with essays that transform the strange uncle at the back left corner of every Christmas shot, into a hero of the Dank Street narrative.



66. Our senses compete for time and attention, between the unconstrained vibrancy of our free surround sound CMYK-4D-RGB of reality by chance, enchantment by fate sitting patiently awaiting our attention, all outside the back door, running into, but never out of, the unexpected.. to compete with what? The guide time tabling most; the TV guide. 


27. Banish the TV guide into the wasteland of Mt. Predictable. HIstory has documented guides which have left us feats of literature which remain applicable to contemporary life, inspired centuries past, practical through generations of trend change in fashion, in culture, culinary experience, in piercing, sexual aids, and spiritual adventure. 


31. Art that you know works is the experience of the timeless sensual outside of trend and left of critique... it is an inherit known, one of those thoughts that awakens something, doesn't matter what that something is. It is. Manifest that, write a guide about it, hand out the fairy bread and blow up some balloons.. there you have yourself a Manifesto. 



THE COMPETITION: WRITE A MANIFESTO YOU BELIEVE TO BE APPROPRIATE TO CURRENT PRACTICE AND CULTURAL POSITION. 



1ST PRIZE FOR 'BEST' MANIFESTO: Product Placement on full length of top shelf at register area in 'Cash Converters' for Six Weeks with a reduced rate specially approved for this COMPETITION; 79 percent commission.



2ND PRIZE 
ONE WEEK WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY: Includes your choice of a blanket and a box of matches - OR - two unlabelled tin cans, and a piece of string.. either for emergency communication via smoke signals or tin can comms. Both include a week membership to the research room of Mt. Druitt Community Library with access limited to NON-FICTION PRINT material only; known as books that contain information applicable to ones life. 



3RD PRIZE
 A two hour interview, no limit question session, with the judges of any one of the prominent Arts Grants, or competitions such as the Helen Lempriere, or Archibald. All questions guaranteed to be answered without adjudication, deferral, or misdirection. 

All prizes must be collected upon notice of successful entry.



WINNERS will be announced within the literary eminent ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUBLICATION; 'THAT'S LIFE'. 

PHOTO SESSION OF WINNERS SMILING AND CAVORTING WITH OH&S APPROVED LEAPS OF JOY TO BE PRINTED IN FOLLOWING ISSUE.

Winners will also receive a one week subscription hand delivered by paper boy. 



Entry Requirements

Entries are restricted to ONE A4 page, either hand written or typed and saved as a WORD DOC. If entry contains support images these are not included in the one page limit.

VIDEO submissions are encouraged and to be limited to 4 min. 
(video submissions must provide an additional text document for publication in the event of winning).


This performance event will be exhibited in Sep 2011. 



Entries to be emailed only to:
notanothermanifesto@dodo.com.au



Those submitting large file video works should use a service such as sendit.com.