applied arts of gonzo (manifesto)

(by Jakub Woynarowski and Aneta Rostkowska)


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artist, curator, critic and collector ground a sect
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artist or non-artist secretly puts her/his own work into the exhibition
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artists appropriate some specific objects within the art institution recognizing them as their own work
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through the act of mediation by a number of artists the authorship of a particular work of art is deliberately blurred
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artist distributes alternative versions of her/his own (or someone else's) biography
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artist invites guests to the opening of his/her exhibition in a randomly selected art institution. the institution knows nothing about the exhibition. at the announced time the exhibition is not there and the artist is absent.
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a photographer prepares a documentation of works of some artists, presenting them in an environment the artists would not wish them to be presented
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a director of a museum organizes a large expensive exhibition that only he can see
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as a result of a secret agreement all art institutions in the same city (or country) at the same time present exhibitions of the same artist
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the same exhibition is transferred from one art institution to another within the same city
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an art institution disseminates false information concerning a single art project it organizes (many conflicting descriptions of this project)
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an art institution organizes an exhibition of random objects of different origins that it accumulated over the years (not neccessesarily art objects)
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a non-existent artist, event or art institution is being promoted in the media. the primary source of all the information is difficult to identify
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in the media art works produced by several artists are treated as created by one artist and the objects  made by one single artist are attributed to several different artists
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an (anti-)curator (falsely) claims to be a curator of a particular exhibition pursuing its own media campaign around this exhibition
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an (anti-)curator distributes alternative curatorial text or audioguide/videoguide changing the meaning of (someone else's) exhibitions
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a curatorial talk about the exhibition is being taken over by self-claimed anticurator
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the same curatorial text is being used in many exhibitions
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curatorial texts belonging to two different exhibitions (eg. taking place at the same time) are being exchanged
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something that is not an exhibition is received by the public as an exhibition. a non-curatorial text is being read as a curatorial text
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all items in the gallery space are treated by the public as works of art
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a visitor sees the exhibition from a predefined point of view - for example, an art project is going to be seen as surreal, socially engaged or abstract
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a visitor perceives a collective exhibition as an individual one, and an individual one as collective
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someone treats several independent exhibitions as a one single exhibition and several unrelated exhibitions as one single project
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art critic watches an exhibition under the influence of strong drugs and then describes her/his experience in a reviewan art critic reviews only:
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the exhibitions he/she did not see or
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exhibitions that did not exist or
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non-exhibitions or
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the reviews of exhibitions written by other art critics
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an art critic reviews the exhibition according to a predefined key - for example, along the formula "positive - negative - positive - negative"
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an art critic writes only non- reviews:
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creates texts consisting only of quotations
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gives his column to someone else (eg, non- critic)
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uses only visual material
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writes a texts but not related to the established theme
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an art critic is preparing her/his review in form of a cabaret, musical radio piece or videoperformance
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an art critic prepares a review of multiple use
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an art critic writes a positive review as negative (negative assesment, positive conclusion) or a negative review as positive (positive assesment, negative conclusion)
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an art critic publishes at the same time a positive and a negative review of the same exhibition
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an art critic describes exhibitions only in the way that she/he would like them to be - as a result her/his reviews are always positive
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an art dealer sells all objects in the gallery, regardless of their origin
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an art dealer provides customers with a visit to the studios of artists - in fact these are situations played by actors in a suitably arranged artificial spaces
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an art collector collects only the fetishes of the artists
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an art historian shows a marginal phenomenon as a canon and a canon of art as something marginal
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an art historian describes an alternative version of events, mixing facts and fiction
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an art historian gives lectures in the form of musical radio piece or cabaret or videoperformance



*we loyally warn that some of the ideas described above have been implemented