Ha Karen I like your approach, if this is your approach.? They are all good gen-er-al (ha!) stretches to work with in life and why not in a practice... I'd love to hear what 'festo's people are working with and how it impacts on their work... I apologize for the incorrect address, I posted yesterday, some very smart cookies worked it out themselves which is very impressive. I use riddles a lot in my work but this was an accidental one. The main multi-MARYfesto's I'm working with at the moment are. that is my 'working' and liv'n maryfesto's. all up for revision, more like evolution and convolution always. 1 refuse to make statements 2 watch the shape of words 3 be trans... 4 resist propaganda 5 make culture 6 listen for the sound in / of things 7 make soapboxes 8 speak in other tongues 9 look for the vertical 10 refuse to abide by common sense 11 don't face facts 12 get used to vertigo 13 slur and mumble 14 act act act exuberant 15 privileged sound over grammar 16 listen to me and not to them 17 eat joy 18 learn to fly from the Sally Field, the flying nun series 19 connect with dead superheroines wherever possible, intimately 20 promote contradictions-become world famous yesterday 21 be mischief 22 repeat myself, repeat myself 23 disrupt borders in department stores and in knowledge disciplines 24 steal shopping trolleys 25 act slowly... ha! 26 jump up and down, jump up and down 27 mark the edge, the center 28 use a lot of butter 29 overshoot the 'mark' What are others cupa tea? cheers Jena http://multi-maryfesto.blogspot.com/ Listen to me and not to them. by the famously famous Ms Stein Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:56:34 +0100 From: karen blissett <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Multi-MARYfestos correct address To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi Majena and all, My list-suggestion for the multi-MARYfesto :-) Karen... 1 don't buy clothes share them 2 play with others more 3 laugh at patriarchs 4 rewrite propaganda and make it ours 5 make vulnerabiblity a skill 6 exploit tech but stay earthed 7 be proud and loud 8 believe in the humanity of diversion 9 acknowledge that knowledge is a currency 10 dialogue is action 11 intimacy is recognition not sex 12 climb higher but not alone 13 laugh at those muscles 14 question the noise and glide through it 15 observe, consider then walk around it 16 enjoy the lust but not if it is peocessed 17 wrestle with love and then live with it 18 see nuns as friends future liberators 19 unearth what was once invisible 20 don't climb mountains respect them 21 share and share and share 22 shoplift culture, reclaim our goods 23 remember that we are changing 24 our freedoms are not an object 25 speak when not spoken to 26 let the shallowness of power be noticed 27 treat ideoligy like a cup of tea, sip it and then try another blend 28 be a secret agent 29 leave messages for others to find, everywhere 2009/4/5 Majena Mafe <[email protected]> > Hi Christina, thank you for letting me know?yes I offered a very wrong > address, > > This is the right one, hope you enjoy? > > > > http://multi-maryfesto.blogspot.com/ > > > > Majena Mafe > > Let me listen to me and not to them... Gertrude Stein > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 6 > > Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:47:48 +0100 > > From: "cristina l. duarte" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace and multi-maryfestos > > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > > <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > Hi Majena! > > i appreciated very much your words, and I tried to enter the multi maryfest > > blog - excellent name and idea - but it was not possible. even when a add a > > l to 'bogspot' (http://multi-maryfest.bogspot.com), the result was nule, > > and the blogger said the name was not registered. So, it's only to relate > > this I'm writing to you, > > hoping you have a nice sunday, > > to you all, > > my best wishes > > cristina duarte. > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Majena Mafe <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > After the Ada extravaganza, I?ve been thinking about all these > wonderful > > > women and wondering where are their manifesto?s. I?ve decided they should > > > have be called multiple-maryfesto's rather than manifestos. The list of > > > recommendations for the Ada Lovelace list of women distinguished in > > > technologies has revealed a very very long and rich as bunch of little > > > known women and their creative works. What were these women thinking I > > > wonder, what was their frame of inspiration, how broad was their > maryfesto? > > > and how close or far from achieving it was their work as we now know it. > > > Is what we take to be their work ....'THE' work. Women's achievements in > > > the arts, is a marginalized & subversive force. (how exciting) ... but am > > > wondering what others think about re-visiting the manifesto and testing > > > applying some of the best to their own 'means' of mischief. > > > > > > So?a maryfesto is a ...is a list inspiring paradigms that shape creative > > > work, be it sonic art, creative knitting, experimental ecriture writing > or > > > avant-garde painting practices...this is the place where every > maryfesto's > > > written by a self identifying 'mary' is welcome. > > > > > > > > > Where are the lost maryfesto's, by all the brilliant mary minds of the > > > past? What is the maryfesto frame women and mary's are working with now? > > > > > > > > > I've started a new forum collecting and working with all sorts of > creative > > > MULTI_MARYFESTOS http://multi-maryfest.bogspot.com > > > > > > Please participate if this interests you too. > > > > > > Majena Mafe > > > Let me listen to me and not to them... Gertrude Stein > > > > _______________________________________________ >
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