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POST-COLONIAL LIBERATION ARMY (rematerialización)

PCLA (r)



ETHICS AND THE OTHERS

Fourth Proclamation
(Research to one’s own advantage)


1.- The PCLA(r) states that everything I like is good

2.- the PCLA(r) defends that everything good for the PCLA(r) is also good for the lower middle class, for the immigrants, the unemployed, for culture, economy, the “chic” museums’ system, non-professional artists, alternative people, historical artists, for the aesthetics, the ethics, the leisure industry, for the free circulation of ideas, for the stimulation of the economy, and also holds that everything pleasing to the PCLA(r) is good for everyone in general

3.- the PCLA(r) affirms that every artistic act is a social action traditionally legitimated by the gestuality of individual freedom, which has nothing to do with either good or bad faith

4.-the PCLA(r) accuses as pampered every ethic or aesthetic gaze which does not assume the consequences of deconstruction

5.- the PCLA(r) denounces that art, having no ends or intentions, carries in its muddy waters the slime and embarrassment of the sediments of bad and good faith, of karma, of the rules of language, of the logic of supply and demand, and of the glory of the productive forces, whose will makes symbolic production into a relatively believable fact

6.- the PCLA(r) does not deny or affirm the study of what is good, nor pretends to procure it, nor questions the good intentions of the correct action, of the incorrect action or of the spectacular ethical action. The PCLA(r) minds its own business. Lives and lets live. The PCLA(r) does affirm that the ethical provocation is present in the messianic vocation of a narcissistic and insecure middle class who would portray itself as vanguard (* see authoritarian paragraphs)

* Authoritarian paragraphs to point #6:
a): the middle class is narcissistic, insecure, normative and would portray itself as contemporary vanguard
b): the middle class is politically opportunist, culturally normative and ethically coward
c): the middle class does not aspire, today, to objectives of progress and economic accommodation as an ethical end, but to elitist (and in good faith) symbolic transcendence, and gladly sends its children to study at art schools
d): the middle class rebels today against its former sanctimoniousness and assumes relative ethical values to help in renegotiating its elite opportunism
e): the middle class is, today, art producer in its capacity of main consumer of museum goods
f): the middle class wants to win, holds a grudge and is angry
f:a): the middle class is not what it used to be
g): the vanguard of the middle class is bigger than your vanguard
h): the middle class pretends things are hot because things got hot for the middle class
i): in what hotel do the globalized hide?

7.- the PCLA(r) recognizes that it is possible to assume power as the only real thing and as source of stoic pleasure; the PCLA(r) has nightmares and remorses which, sadly, affect the quality of its ethical judgements and, at nights, two white unicorns appear to the PCLA(r), one called Anythinggoes and the other Theendjustifiesthemeans, both of them singing a light and catchy tune inciting me to sign all the works of art, to sacrifice myself for my career, to suffer as a result of fame or lack thereof, and to add even more objects to a world already full of objects, full of objects, full of objects, full of objects

8.- the PCLA(r) laments its inexplicable romanticism by which it would pretend that the way to make a work of art should be, come rain or shine, constitutive and inseparable part of that work of art

9.- the PCLA(r) dreams of not escaping into the future

10.- the PCLA(r) recognizes its imbecility in thinking that to go no further is the only vanguard possible to it

11.- the PCLA(r) estimates that, probably, contemporary art will not need to formulate its own relationship to ethics, but (perhaps) to take into account that ethics is a political context of the contemporary

12.- the PCLA(r) believes it has arguments to say that, notwithstanding our purpose to work for conscience or thoughtlessness, the risk always exists of preaching or of giving oneself to the pragmatism of pleasure without need of confronting the consequences. The PCLA(r) makes no difference between representation and praxis, nor believes in quality criteria, given that art is a system producing objects (these being dematerialized or not), which may lead to believe that an art object is ostensibly different from an exhibition curator, whereas they actually both dance the same art perception mambo. Thus, the PCLA(r) wonders if ethics would be an attribute or an intrinsic quality of the actions composing our lives

13.- the PCLA(r) has reliable information that, in many cases, it is possible to cast the stone and hide the hand. The body does not begin at the centre and end at paring my nails. Every other is there even though my eyes may not see them. The objects in the mirror are closer than they seem. Narcissus, Epicure or the Stoics. Everything that happens is true, but some things have more reality than others. I cannot waste more time in this. The systems. Now or never!

14.- the PCLA(r) runs this research to its own advantage


In good faith, from the black horizons of the Galician seas!
For everybody’s advantage!
First Quarter of the Year 2003

Post Colonial Liberation Army (rematerialización)

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