LIFT-OFF EVENT

9/11/2014

"We prefer that people voice their grievances in the form of art. In fact, the more noise art makes, the better – dissatisfaction circulates inside the arts, and the world can go on regardless. For the system of the world, art functions like a safety valve, taking the pressure of change away from the system’s integral structures."

Charles de Ganahl Koch, chief executive officer of Koch Industries

LIFE

SELF-CREATION AREASSetup:

POOF! All these areas are now creative mediums. Choose one. Create.

IDENTITIESROLESSKILLS

TECHNIQUESCONCEPTS

VALUES

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CREATE YOUR OWN WORK

SELF-CREATION AREASSetup: POOF! All these areas are now creative mediums. Choose one. Create.

IDENTITIESIdentity is a package around a self-like process, usually anchored by a name. Anyone who has the operative rights to an identity can enact it (like your body is enacting your “personal” identity).

SuPER-SImPLE CREATION mEThOd:1. Form an identity based on an image, a name, and a technique.2. Create an existence for this identity (on an online platform, during a moment of your everyday life, while engaging with public life...).3. Use the reactions instigated by the identity to develop it forward.

ROLESRole is a wearable, clothes-like variation of identity. It can usually be changed at a moment’s notice.

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SKILLS6NLOO�LV�D�ŵHOG�RI�NQRZ�KRZ��H[SHUWLVH�(e.g. drawing). It also refers to the FDSDELOLW\�RI�PRYLQJ�ZLWKLQ�WKLV�ŵHOG�

SuPER-SImPLE CREATION mEThOd:���)LQG�D�ŵHOG�RI�SUDFWLFH�WKDW�FRXOG�H[LVW�LQ�culture, but probably doesn’t (e.g. art by biting on paper)2. Practice the skill for a bit.3. Publicise your skill.

TECHNIQUESTechnique is a ritualised, pattern-based method of practice.

SuPER-SImPLE CREATION mEThOd:1. At a certain moment of everyday life, make a “wrong” (unexpected, unconventional) move.���6WRS��)LJXUH�RXW�D�ŵWWLQJ�FRQWLQXDWLRQ�WR�\RXU�“wrong” move.3. Continue your moves until you feel they form a pattern.

CONCEPTSConcept is a lego-block of culture, both for its construction and expression.

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VALUESValue is a concept that works like a lighthouse: It’s main function is to provide guidance for behavior.

SuPER-SImPLE CREATION mEThOd:1. Decide that something is very important, in whatever fashion.2. Because it is very important, it will guide your actions. Follow its guidance.3. After a while of following, you develop a sense of making choices for that important thing.���3UHVHQW�\RXU�ŵQGLQJ�DV�D�YDOXH�

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INSTITUTE OF ULTRAPERSON6SHFLDOL]HV�LQ�GHŵQLQJ�DQG�HQKDQFLQJ�personality traits, developing people into ultra-versions of their desired attributes.

SOCIETY OF SUBTLE NUANCEStudies the small an slight effects used in our social behavior. Develops new phenomena of human behavior, testing them as subtly as possible, and distributing them by subversive strategies.