EDITION 008 | GROß KUNST ÜBER ALLES SEPTEMBER 2020 €5/ $5/ £5
uKUNST MANIFESTO
WE are uKUNST. WE are alternative WE are creative. WE are independent. WE will produce. WE will disseminate. We have no masters. We are legion. uKUNST.
uKUNST: All Is Artifice. Creative actions and productions to challenge apathetic human acceptance of religious delusions, bankrupt conventions, colonial and capitalist ideologies and plain lack of reason. (uKUNST Manifesto April 1, 1917). uKUNST develops, produces and distributes interdisciplinary arts-led creative works. uKUNST is an independent creative studio and producer delivering in-house and external (client) products ranging from audio, visual, performance and digital arts through to literature, animation, music, print and events. By Any Media Necessary Š RFM 1995. Welcome to the eighth in a series of alternative and radical arts productions. uKUNST actions, events and productions aim to challenge the existing status quo across the arts, society, commerce and politics. Our series of art or kunst products and initiatives are creative actions. Each product is a standalone creative work as well as a part of the wider uKUNST canon of art provocations, products and productions. uKUNST SUBSCRIPTION Here at uKUNST we decided, due to unpopular demand, to pursue a monetary policy. In order to fund future uKUNST projects, initiatives and productions (including publications) we introduced a subscription. For a paltry £20 you will receive three uKUNST publications. To subscribe email subs@ukunst.com with Subscription in the subject line. We will send you a short subscription order form and payment details. Your publications will be mailed to you by recorded post. We will also be producing the long-awaited uKUNST Audio Magazine quite soon. Thank you for your continued interest, support and cash. www.ukunst.com 2 | uKUNST Manifesto
CONTENTS Front | Grand Theft Fiscal | Fuxus Kunst 2 | uKUNST Manifesto 3 | Contents | Navigation & Contributors 4 | Groß Kunst Über Alles | Editorial 5 | Still Life 2020 | Lee Baxter 6 | Johnson 10 September 2 | Simon Poulter & Mark Donne 7 | Exodus | Roney FM 8 | Blood Sports 1980 I Love You | Explore Satan 9 | V&A One | Peter Marsh 10 | Après Bristol... | David Hoyle 11 | Sugar Daddy | Fuxus Kunst 12 | Paris Dream | Unknown 14 | Kunst Toilettensitz des Untergangs (Art Toilet Seat of Doom) | Michelle Dee 15 | Unicorn Breeding UK | Simon Poulter 16 | Police State | Sean Azzopardi 17 | Never Any End To Their Greed & V&A Two | Peter Marsh 18 | Great Art Over All | Peter Marsh & Roney FM 19 | Middle Passage | Nick Wells 20 | DEAD AIDS | Lemi Ghariokwu 21 | BAME | Michael Barnes-Wynters 22 | Disruptive Trade | Roney FM 23 | Publisher Page | Publication Info Back | SNITCH | Michael Barnes-Wynters
CONTRIBUTORS Sean Azzopardi Michael Barnes-Wynters Lee Baxter Michelle Dee Mark Donne Roney FM Lemi Ghariokwu David Hoyle Kargan Media Fuxus Kunst Peter Marsh Simon Poulter Explore Satan Nick Wells
Trick & Trace | Roney FM | 3
EDITORIAL Groß Kunst Über Alles Art lovers, and art suckers (for there are some amongst us who relish art not as spiritual nourishment, inspiration and balm but as a commodity to engage, pimp and exploit until the bare market perversion shows though) what does the word art mean at this time in human devolution? If the word art means creativity then we are all in grande merde. Creativity is an essential human gift, it allows this backward species to develop, prosper and ultimately destroy all and everything it surveys. Creativity, inventiveness and adaptability are key to the progressive evolution of humans from reptile to politician, eugenicist to monkey and peasant to champagne socialist. It is the bread and butter of so-called civilization and used by scientists and corporations alike to enhance the forthcoming destruction of the planet and its inhabitants. But what of the good that comes from humankinds’ creative endeavours that enhance the positive attributes of this wayward beast? Language, music, philosophy, literature, dance, architecture (carbuncle-like though some of it is), graphic design, film, fashion, ritual, television and, that doyen of human experience, light entertainment. What boons to the human condition! What enviable treats for creatures, until relatively recently, sitting high in a tree waiting for peckish tigers to pass? Here, in dear old Blighty, we suffer from the European disease of dominant culture. This delusional condition plants a virus of superiority in the minds and rhetoric of the afflicted. It overinflates the achievements of the pallid and lacklustere whilst denigrating the creativity and inventiveness of the so-called artists of darkness. The condition is endemic in every institute of the state, academia, business and especially religion. In culture it mannifests itself in an obsession with the faux enlightened European artistic past and costume dramas. Britain has never rated the artist as a contributor to life, development and good fortune and consequently has steadfastly refused to invest in those that make art, the artist, favouring instead the middle men and women (administrators, fundraisers, curators, secretaries of state, select committees, director-generals and commissioners) whose sole raison d’être is to line the pockets of their class and maintain the established cultural order. There is also the question of why the UK is so in thrall to American (so-called) culture? This is not aimed at the purveyors of the urban culture so beloved of the forthcoming generation (which at least is able to reinvent itself and harness technology to effect change) but rather the threadbare, formulaic, lame and common denominator sucking fare shit out (as Uncle Bill would say) through the guts of wholesome Americans and of course their British Film Industry prostitutes. How much do we spend importing American and other external culture into the UK, who profits from this and what is the difference between UK expenditure on foreign dissident artists against homegrown dissenters? Figures are not available as no such comparison was ever made, at least in this fair isle. So it is not the art we fake but the art we make my fellow kunstlers and art has to have a beating heart. As we used to say in broadcasting, Grosse Kunst Matt Frei! Welcome to this art-rich, resource-starved and revolting, but inevitably so, edition. uKUNST Enjoy Der Herausgeber September MMXX 4 | Editorial | Groß Kunst Über Alles
Still Life 2020 | Lee Baxter | 5
6 | Simon Poulter & Mark Donne | Johnson 10 September 2
Exodus | Roney FM | 7
Blood Sports 1980 I Love You
The rivers have gone the old folk are dying It’s not the same as a simple wedding As I whisper I love you Death of grass & rust of metal Blending acid rains with urban space dust Smells of seaweed so pure Bring the Tibetan bowls That sound like whispers saying I love you The rivers will live on the old folk will die It’s all a simple procession Whispering love you My little blue dot . There is no plan B
8 | Explore Satan | Blood Sports 1980 I Love You
V&A One | Peter Marsh | 9
10 | David Hoyle | Après Bristol...
Sugar Daddy | Fuxus Kunst | 11
Paris Dream | Unknown | 13
14 | Michelle Dee | Kunst Toilettensitz des Untergangs (Art Toilet Seat of Doom)
Unicorn Breeding UK | Simon Poulter | 15
16 | Sean Azzopardi | Police State
Never Any End To Their Greed Way out in their havens they’re stashing and saving They’re wanton and craven and plain misbehaving On a flim-flam scam you can find them all As we’re deflating new markets they’re infiltrating What’s that you’re saying? No taxes they’re paying? Society’s fraying while they go on playing It’s that good ole austerity that’s come to carry their coffers away. See them plunder along, alt-right turning all wrong It’s all an in lodge tax dodge The new super rich law says stick it all off shore Hear the hokum they sell, while their back accounts swell We’re on a bleak streak Watching on the tele Never any end to their greed! There’s protesters shouting, the voters are doubting The lawyers are spouting what laws they are flouting To the state where all is ridiculous Tweeting and clowning but bugger all trickle downing You think you’re invited? Well don’t get excited Unless you get knighted your prospects are blighted While the fat cats line up at the trough There’s more good ole austerity. See them twerking their maths, vicious sociopaths So blame the piss poor tax law, worth investigating It’s illuminating Join the revolting crowd, protest while it’s allowed There’s just no use, Luce Weighing on their conscience There’s never any end to their greed!
Never Any End To Their Greed & V&A Two | Peter Marsh | 17
18 | Peter Marsh & Roney FM | Great Art Over All
Middle Passage | Nick Wells | 19
20 | Lemi Ghariokwu | DEAD AIDS
BAME | Michael Barnes-Wynters | 21
22 | Roney FM | Disruptive Trade
PUBLISHERS PAGE
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