MANIFIESTO
MANIFIESTO
MANIFIESTO COLECTIVO: THE ART OF UNMAKING
We, artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners, declare that artistic research is not a discipline but a space of encounter. It is a practice of unmaking—unmaking the boundaries between art and science, between author and participant, between knowledge and experience.
Inspired by the repair shops of Switzerland, the forensic investigations of Eyal Weizman, and the collaborative ecosystems of Basurama and Subtramas, we propose a new ethic of creation:
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FROM OBJECT TO PROCESS.
We abandon the cult of the finished artwork. The true outcome of artistic research is the process itself—the shared learning, the collective error, the social friction. Like the act of dismantling a smartphone, we value understanding over ownership, repair over replacement. -
FROM AUTONOMY TO SITUATION.
Art does not exist in a vacuum. It is embedded in streets, communities, conflicts, and bodies. We work with, not for. We listen more than we declare. Our research begins where institutional knowledge ends. -
FROM AUTHOR TO CO-RESEARCHER.
We dissolve authorship. In projects like Xoxo Clown Show or Errorismo, the artist becomes a facilitator, a companion in discovery. The community is not a subject but a co-creator of meaning and memory. -
FROM INFORMATION TO PERCEPT.
Following Vilar, we do not seek to produce data, but percepts—visual, sonic, and sensorial configurations that provoke thought and feeling. A comic panel, a forensic model, a clown performance: each is a thinking device, not an illustration. -
FROM EFFICIENCY TO ERROR.
We embrace the unproductive, the failed, the uncertain. The Manifiesto Errorista teaches us that to err collectively is to resist the logic of capital and control. We research by risking, by laughing, by doubting.
In conclusion, we call for an artistic research of the commons: open, vulnerable, and transformative. Let us unmake the old hierarchies. Let us build, together, a practice that thinks with its hands, feels with its mind, and exists only in relation to others.
Artistic Research Collective
“The Lonely Unmaker”
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