Ein Zürcher Manifest

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Peter Zumthor - Architektur lehren, Architektur lernen

Nick Zedd - The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto

We who have violated the laws, commands and duties of the avant-garde; i.e. to bore, tranquilize and obfuscate through a fluke process dictated by practical convenience stand guilty as charged. We openly renounce and reject the entrenched academic snobbery which erected a monument to laziness known as structuralism and proceeded to lock out those filmmakers who possesed the vision to see through this charade.

We refuse to take their easy approach to cinematic creativity; an approach which ruined the underground of the sixties when the scourge of the film school took over. Legitimising every mindless manifestation of sloppy movie making undertaken by a generation of misled film students, the dreary media arts centres and geriatic cinema critics have totally ignored the exhilarating accomplishments of those in our rank - such underground invisibles as Zedd, Kern, Turner, Klemann, DeLanda, Eros and Mare, and DirectArt Ltd, a new generation of filmmakers daring to rip out of the stifling straight jackets of film theory in a direct attack on every value system known to man.

We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films never be made again. We propose that a sense of humour is an essential element discarded by the doddering academics and further, that any film which doesn’t shock isn’t worth looking at. All values must be challenged. Nothing is sacred. Everything must be questioned and reassessed in order to free our minds from the faith of tradition.Intellectual growth demands that risks be taken and changes occur in political, sexual and aesthetic alignments no matter who disapproves. We propose to go beyond all limits set or prescribed by taste, morality or any other traditional value system shackling the minds of men. We pass beyond and go over boundaries of millimeters, screens and projectors to a state of expanded cinema.

We violate the command and law that we bore audiences to death in rituals of circumlocution and propose to break all the taboos of our age by sinning as much as possible. There will be blood, shame, pain and ecstasy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined. None shall emerge unscathed. Since there is no afterlife, the only hell is the hell of praying, obeying laws, and debasing yourself before authority figures, the only heaven is the heaven of sin, being rebellious, having fun, fucking, learning new things and breaking as many rules as you can. This act of courage is known as transgression. We propose transformation through transgression - to convert, transfigure and transmute into a higher plane of existence in order to approach freedom in a world full of unknowing slaves.

Zero Manifest

"ZERO war eine Düsseldorfer Künstlergruppe, die am 24. April 1958 von Heinz Mack und Otto Piene offiziell gegründet wurde. Im Jahr 1961 kam Günther Uecker hinzu. Mack und Piene sahen die Nachkriegskunst „mit einem Übermaß an Ballast befrachtet“.^[1] Die Künstler suchten einen neuen Anfang, eine „Stunde Null“, die von der Vergangenheit unbelastet sein sollte. Sie wollten dem aufgezwungenen Drama des Zweiten Weltkriegs und seinen Gräueln eine reinere, heilere Welt entgegensetzen, indem sie in der Alternative zu den alten Kunstwertigkeiten, die sie im Informel und im Tachismus der Nachkriegszeit repräsentiert fanden, eine hoffnungsvolle und idealistische Lebensauffassung sahen.^[2][3] ZERO bezeichnete eine Phase des Schweigens und der Stille, eine Zwischenzone, in der ein alter Zustand in einen neuen übergeht.^[2] Die Mitglieder erzeugten mit ihren lichtkinetischen Objekten, die mit ihrem Licht und ihrer Kinetik in den Raum greifen und diesen mit einbeziehen, eine neue puristische Ästhetik, die in der Erscheinung zwischen Bild und Skulptur anzusiedeln ist.^[4] Die Gruppe ZERO löste sich 1966 auf, nachdem sich die künstlerischen und biografischen Wege ihrer Mitglieder getrennt hatten."

aus: Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZERO