To Manifestos

A Stuckist Manifesto

MANIFESTO
MANIFESTO
The Stuckists (est. 1999)
anti-anti-art
The first Remodernist art group

The spirit of what doesn't need to be done

1. If one manifesto is adequate, the rest are superfluous

2. Each manifesto nullifies the others.

3. Manifestos are like newspaper astrology. They have something for everyone by treating the sun sign as the rising sign.

4. We are not saying this is a bad thing.

5. It's like saying if one book is adequate, why bother with more books?

6. A manifesto can be adequate, hopefully much more than adequate, for what it talks about. That doesn't mean it has addressed every issue in the known universe.

7. It's time for a manifesto about manifestos.

8. This is it.

9. It's not totally successful.

10 The Futurists have to accept a large part of the blame for all ensuing manifestos.

11. Futurist manifestos are crap.

12. The Stuckist manifestos are the only ones worth reading.

13. A manifesto should at least have some truth and sense, even though most of it is a lot of baloney, including the Stuckist manifesto. Billy Childish is to blame for that.

14. Billy Childish is not to blame. The Futurists are to blame.

15. Who are the Futurists?

16. Essays are better, as they can actually explain things, or poems, which don't need to explain anything, but can just express something.

17. Artists write manifestos, because they can't write. That's why they're artists.

18. If you write a manifesto, it is best to keep it to yourself. You will be in the same position as someone who has farted in a crowded room, or, even worse, in a tube train, or worse still at a funeral or in an art gallery.

19. A manifesto is a more messy form of masturbation.

20. Twenty is a good number of points for a manifesto to have.

Charles Thomson
with The Stuckist Bureau of Inquiry
27.10.20

Published by the Stuckist Bureau of Enquiry