This publication aims to open an interrogation into systems of living through a methodology of experimental, meandering impulse.

The entries included will be based around the notion of creative living, using performance art as a vehicle to disrupt and explore different ways of being in the world. We often follow rules that we did not impose; align ourselves with moral codes and social norms whose origins feel distant; accept standardised forms of order without understanding their complex genealogies. Practices of creative living have the potential to reveal the fragility of these regimes, and to prompt enquiry into the possibility of living otherwise.

The publication will take shape as a kind of instruction manual, in which each artist offers a cohesive walk-through of their engagement with experimental living in the form of a step by step guide. In theory, a reader could follow these instructions in order to undertake a similar form of experimentation or disruption. These instructions may be surreal or absurd, and need not be fully realisable.

The work is being independently published and produced by Open Performance Academy, an independent performance art organisation based in Rotterdam. We are set to release the work in June, following which there will be a number of activation events across London, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam

PURCHASING YOUR OWN BELONGINGS AGAIN IN THE DOWNTOWN
Yoshinori Niwa

Purchase a daily item you like, such as a magazine or fruit, at a kiosk or bookstore in town.

Bring the item into another shop and pay for it at the counter.

Repeat this action at several different shops on the same day.

FAKIR’S REST
Gilles Pate and Stephene Argillet

Defy ergonomic orders

Use things in spite of their spikes

Become burlesque

Included Artists (working):

Yoshinori Niwa 

Stephane Argillet and Gilles Pate 

Gelatin Collective 

Jennifer Calivas 

Ge Yulu 

Margot Wilson 

Karel Van Laere 

Kathrin Maria Wolkowicz

CIRCA (Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army)

Sebastian Stumpf 

Shizuka Yokomizo

Tianju Chen 

Yes Men 

Simon Rodia 

Laboratory of Insurrectory Imagination