Manifesto of Dynamism

THERE IS NO POST-POSTMODERNISM. THERE IS DYNAMISM. DYNAMISM IS THE EMINENT AESTHETIC AWARENESS OF THE AGE OF INFORMATION, THE POST-MILLENNIAL AGE.

ART DOES NOT IMITATE LIFE. LIFE DOES NOT IMITATE ART. LIFE IS ART. ART IS LIFE. AT EVERY MOMENT THERE IS THE INCESSANT ACT OF CREATION. LIVE  ARTISTICALLY. CREATE LIVING ART. NOT JUST A REFLECTION OR RESPONSE TO THE WAY WE LIVE BUT AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WAY WE LIVE. AN ELEMENT OF DAILY LIFE. ART IN THE MOMENT; IN REAL TIME.

DYNAMIST ART IS REVELRY, IT IS FESTIVAL, CARNIVAL, STREET FAIR, PARADE, COSTUME PARTY, FOR THE MASSES, AUDIENCE PARTICIPATORY, ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE. IT IS CEREMONY, RITUAL, COMMUNITY.

DYNAMISM IS THE THEATRE OF OPPOSING FORCES, EXTREME POLARITIES, DUALITIES, YIN & YANG. IT HOLDS HISTORICAL MATERIALISM & DIALECTICAL EVOLUTION AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES. IT IS ABOUT CONSTANT CONFLICT, THE WRANGLING OF POSITION & IDEAS. THE DYNAMIC ENERGETIC STRUGGLE WHICH HAS SPURRED ALL OF CREATION INTO BEING. THE PRIMARY RULE IS: THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE.

DYNAMISM LIVES IN THE SPACE BETWEEN CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY. BETWEEN SACRED & SECULAR. BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. BETWEEN PERSONAL & UNIVERSAL. INTERNAL & EXTERNAL. IT IS ABOUT THESIS, ANTITHESIS, & THE RESULTING (IF EVER TEMPORARY) SYNTHESIS.

DYNAMISM LIVES IN THE PLACE WHERE THE ARTIST MEETS THE AUDIENCE. AT THE POINT WHERE THE CREATIVE IDEA, ONCE CONCEIVED AND ACTUALIZED,  PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC, IS SENSED AND PERCEIVED, THEN REACTED OR RESPONDED TO. DYNAMISM IS INHERENT IN THE INTENTIONALITY OF THE ARTIST.  THERE IS NO LONGER ROOM FOR ART WHICH MERELY PLAYS WITH NONSENSE IN A MEANINGLESS WORLD. EVERYTHING HAS MEANING, AND OUR LIFE’S WORK IS TO GAIN UNDERSTANDING.

DYNAMISM IS ABOUT THE NON-RESOLVING QUEST FOR BALANCE, THE SEARCH FOR EQUILIBRIUM. IT IS ABOUT THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN WOMAN AND MAN. LET THE FEMINISTS AND MISOGYNISTS GET TOGETHER AND TALK IT OUT! LET THE SPARKS FLY! IT IS ABOUT RECONCILING THE MALE AND FEMALE ASPECTS OF OUR SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL PERSONAS IN THE WORLD & ALL OF CREATION. IT IS ABOUT ATTAINING EQUALIZATION OF THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS IN THE INDIVIDUAL. MET GETTING IN TOUCH WITH THEIR FEMININE SIDE, BECOMING BETTER CREATORS. WOMEN OWNING THEIR STRENGTH ASSUMING THEIR RIGHTFUL LEADERSHIP IN THE FAMILY & THE COMMUNITY. DYNAMISM SEEKS TO DENOUNCE THE PATRIARCHY AND THE VIOLENCE INHERENT TO MEN’S LUST FOR POWER. IT SEEKS TO REESTABLISH THE MATRIARCHY. IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO PHALLOCENTRICITY, DYNAMISM IS YONICENTRIC! IT IS ABOUT THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS. IT IS ABOUT MEN WHO LOVE AND WORSHIP WOMEN. IT IS ABOUT THE QUEER POPULATION WHO EMBODY THE ESSENCE OF BOTH GENDERS & ABOUT THE ONGOING BATTLE FOR CIVIL EQUALITY. IT IS ABOUT NATURE, PROCREATION, BIRTH, AND NURTURING GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY.

DYNAMISM IS ABOUT HUMAN KIND’S INCREASING AWARENESS OF ITS OWN IMPACT ON OUR PLANET’S LIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES. IT IS ABOUT GAINING INTELLIGENCE ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY AND PERMACULTURE. GOING BACK TO ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE, MODELING OUR EMERGING CULTURAL PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR FROM NATURE. IT IS ABOUT THE STRUGGLE INHERENT IN THE INCREASING TECHNOLOGIFICATION OF HUMAN CULTURE AND THE URGENCY WITH WHICH THE EARTH IS IMPLORING US TO RECONNECT WITH IT.

DYNAMISM IS ABOUT THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND HUMAN KIND’S INCREASING DEPENDENCE ON  ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY. IT IS ABOUT THE DIGITIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE. MAN VS. MACHINERY. THE PROSPECT OF SYNTHETIC ORGANISMS, SYMBIOTIC CREATURES, ANDROID HUMANS, CYBORGS,  ROBOTS. HOW FAR WILL HUMANITY GO IN TAKING TECHNOLOGY INTO THE HUMAN BODY? TECHNOLOGY IS THE OTHER, THE OPPOSITION OF THE HUMAN FORM, USED TO ILLUMINATE THAT WHICH THE BODY IS NOT.

DYNAMISM LIVES WITHIN  THE QUESTION OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION WITHOUT PLACING VALUE JUDGEMENT. EVERYTHING BELONGS TO EVERYBODY IN THIS TIME OF GLOBALIZATION. IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL.

DYNAMISM IS ABOUT UNIVERSALISM. THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS. THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESS. IT IS ABOUT RAISING HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. HOW WE RELATE TO ONE ANOTHER. OUR INTERDEPENDENCE.

THE GREATEST DYNAMIC STRUGGLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS THAT BETWEEN FEAR & LOVE. THIS IS WHERE THE DYNAMIST LIVES- EXPLORING THAT GREAT UNKNOWN BETWEEN OUR POSSIBILITIES AND OUR LIMITATIONS, BETWEEN OUR HIGHER NATURE AND OUR BASEST INSTINCTS.

WHILE POSTMODERNISM WAS CRITICAL OF THE GRAND-NARRATIVES OF MODERN CULTURE, DYNAMISM SEEKS NOT TO DISCARD THE GRAND-NARRATIVE BUT TO CREATE NEW GRAND-NARRATIVES TO REPLACE THE ARCHAIC ONES. DYNAMIST ART SEARCHES FOR REASON TEMPERED WITH FAITH. IT SEEKS TO CREATE A UNIFIED AESTHETICALLY MEDIATED EXPERIENCE OF TRANSCENDENCE. DYNAMISM IS IN THE UNIQUE POSITION OF BEING ABLE TO ENVISION THE NEW AND OPTIMISTIC FUTURE AND BRING IT TO REALITY.  IT IS ABOUT BRINGING ELEMENTS OF RITUAL & SYMPATHETIC MAGIC INTO RELATIONSHIP WITH ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA & EDIFICATION. IT IS ABOUT HUMANITY’S INCREASING AWARENESS AND HARNESSING OF SUBTLE ENERGIES. IT IS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE MEETING META-PHYSICS. IT IS ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL PEACEFUL REVOLUTION. THE REVERSING OF POLARITIES. GRASS ROOTS GONE MAINSTREAM. STREET ART AS POP CULTURE. GRAFFITI IN THE GALLERIES. TURNING EVERYTHING ON ITS HEAD. IT IS ABOUT THEISTIC EVOLUTIONISM. SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS. IRONIC SINCERITY. INFORMED NAIVETY. PRAGMATIC IDEALISM. MODERATE FANATICISM. UNIVERSAL TRUTHS & RELATIVISM. IT LIVES IN THE SPACE BETWEEN WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW AND WHAT YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND. THE SYNTHESIS OF KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTANDING. IT IS ABOUT INTEGRATION, FUSION.

WE ARE LIVING IN THE MYTHIC END TIMES! ITS DO OR DIE! SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST! WE SHALL CREATE NEW MYTHOLOGIES TO CARRY OUR SPECIES FORWARD! SEEKING ALWAYS TO DISCOVER & DEFINE THE MEANING OF LIFE!