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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 MANIFESTO
uKUNST: All Is Artifice. Creative actions and productions to challenge apathetic human acceptanceof religious delusions, bankrupt conventions, colonial and capitalist ideologies and plain lack of reason. (uKUNST Manifesto April 1, 1917).
uKUNST CREATIVE PRODUCTION
uKUNST develops, produces and distributes interdisciplinary arts-led creative works.
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Welcome to the eighteenth in a series of alternative and radical arts productions. Each uKUNST action, event or production is aimed at challenging the existing status quo across the arts, society, commerce and politics.
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EDITORIAL
The theme for this issue should really be leadership in crisis (© Interlogistics) however as we’re now approaching the general defection it’s open season on the uneducated, ignorant and merde that permeate the governments of the world. So whilst we expected some gallows humour in this edition contributors hopefully feel free to express their personal take on human existence and particularly human creativity as we prepare, once more, to enter the circus to select those to wield power over us.
Whilst the uKUNST outlook tends towards a post-punk, pre-dystopian cynicism it has always tried to temper complete apathy. There has to be some hope. Otherwise what’s the point getting up in the morgen or participating in the weekly Gaza protests? uKUNST 18, themed The Well Hung Parliamentary Special, another cursory scan of the diminishing rights of human kind as it sleepwalks towards oblivion taking the innocent planet with it.
Dear readers of the lost art, or even arse, here we are again. Happy as can be, all good friends and jolly good company. At least that’s what the Fat Cat Controllers would have us believe as the unmaintained, Victorian-built mainline Albion locomotive engine careers towards derailment! Like Carole Vordermann (an unlikely bedfellow) we haven’t seen such high corruption, fiscal deviancy and plain grand larceny since Margritte Fatchair introduced us to the considerably pleasurable, if painful, experience of deviant neoliberalism. This edition however ponders the state of our political systems and the impotency of the citizen versus the amalgamated powers of political, corporate, religious and military interests. In short, the continued exploitation and abuse of the people or masses by those in power. Have we learnt nothing from the struggles and revolutions of the last two hundred years? It would appear not.
So assembled here are various voices culled from the mass of unusual suspects in the mainstream distribution of cultural activism and creative contempt. The works speak for themselves, or at least should do. All the reader is required to do is put down the electronic artificially intelligent device, sit back in the sofa and enjoy the musings with a cup of tea and an open mind. When uKUNST first appeared, five years ago, it was intended as a physical art product. Something tangible that gave pleasure when held in one’s hands. Whilst digital versions of the magazine exist it is a uKUNST aim to produce real-world art that is directly experienced by people.
As Rishi struts the political disco scene to the strains of Stayin’ Alive an avalanche of porky pies swamp the airways, social media platforms and news programmes. Politicians of every size, hue and persuasion queue up competing for The Best Whopper In A Parliamentary Election Broadcast award. Crawling out from under his residential stone, is Dullish College alumnus and Toad Of Toad Hall Nigella Fromage who, as both leader and owner of Deform UK, continues to out lie the competition and induce nausea with his beaming frog-head grin. Be warned that this dodgy spiv appears severally in the following pages.
Across the globe man’s inhumanity to man and the co-inhabitants of the planet continues to soar unfettered by reason, justice or humanity. If a God does exist, why the feck would he create such an arrogant, brutal and self-destructive beast? No disrespect intended to the animals we are supposedly related to. The powerful and privileged continue raiding the public coffers whilst claiming a better future free of austerity, immigrants, physical money and regulation! Looks like there aren’t enough humans that care enough to commence the badly needed revolution. And so, my friends, it is with a heavy heart we must conclude that The Devolution Will Not Be Realised
Welcome to this hilarity devoid, creative, post-humanist, part-algorithmic and provocative edition. Enjoy. uKUNST.
Der Herausgeber
July MMXXIV
Fuxus Kunst | Mother Swift
| Terry Choggis | Was getting dirty looks from a dodgy-looking spade on a train. Thought I was going to get a dig.
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MANIFESTO
Concerns have been raised that the Conservative Manifesto indicates they want to tear up the book on environmental regulations. And, thanks to a leaked policy document, we can confirm that those concerns are well grounded. Thanks to this internal memo, we at UKUNST can expose the Tories and their despicable attempts to exploit and monetarize the environment.
Here are some of the worst examples.
Change of definition for the Green Belt; large, mostly useless areas of countryside where previously a number of prohibitive building restrictions applied. From now on the Green Belt will simply refer to the narrow strips of land next to motorways.
All council allotments to be turned over to fracking. Contracts to be assigned based on a straw poll of party members to see which multinational they have most shares in.
All town and city parks and gardens to be turned over to housing. Contracts to be assigned based on a straw poll… etc. etc. The exceptions to this being Regent’s Park, which will become the new London Airport and Hampstead Heath, which becomes the exclusive Trump London Links Golf Course.
Redundant E.U. pollution regulations ripped up, all town and city pedestrian areas returned to road use and research into coal fired vehicles to be encouraged. This following strong lobbying from the soon to be incorporated Gammon Gasmasks Inc., the Tory Tarmac Corporation and Mone Mining Associates.
Not just the foxhunting ban overturned, but a new open season on all British wildlife introduced. This follows pressure from the Luton and Dunstable Vole Hunt, amongst others, whose members are eager to jump back on their Shetland Ponies and let loose a baying pack of Chihuahuas. Semi-automatic weapons to be allowed on all game bird shoots, as too many of the feathery bastards are getting away.
Whipsnade Zoo to be renamed Whipsnade Safari Park and Big Game Hunting Lodge.
All Whales to be removed from endangered species list and Whale hunting re-introduced. Funding earmarked for research into a possible new generation of blubber-fuelled power stations.
Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are banned. Membership of these organisations to be put on the same footing as membership of Al Qaeda.
Finally, and most despicably, Larry the Downing Street cat to be euthanised, even if there is nothing wrong with him, as we just don’t like him.
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