NEOIST WORLD CONGRESS plus NEOIST WORLD'S FAIR
OCTOBER 2005
Call for Avant-Garde Art

Dear prospective participant,

You might have asked yourself many times: What is Neoism, and how can I become a Neoist? The Neoist World's Fair now gives you the multiple opportunity to become a Neoist as well as a member of the International Post Dogmatist Group, The Fluxnexus, The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists and the Massurrealist Society of Mexico.

During October of 2005 (exact dates and times to be announced) both a World Festival of Neoism and a Conference about the present and future state of this century's Neoist Art is taking place at the Conservatory of the The Ontological Museum in conjunction with the Royal Embassy to Mexico and Central America of the Principality of New Utopia in Cuernavaca, Mexico, The International Post Dogmatist Group, The Fluxnexus, The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists and the Massurrealist Society of Mexico.

Everybody is kindly invited to forge Neoist artworks or performances. Although it is in no way necessary to know anything about Neoism in order to forge Neoist (anti-)artworks or to proclaim a Neoist manifesto you might appreciate some basic information on the subject...

It was in Portland, Oregon, USA in the late 70ies where Neoism emerged out of the Mail Art scene. Then, (anti-)art of the 80ies was heavily influenced by a number of Neoist Apartment Festivals. Neoism was defined as prefix and a suffix without anything in-between. The peak of historic Neoism was reached when an Art Strike was proclaimed by Karen Eliot in 1990. For three years no work of art was produced by Neoist anti-artists what eventually lead to the collapse of the art market in the early 90ies.

The central Neoist strategy is the use of multiple names, especially of "Monty Cantsin" and "Karen Eliot". Whoever uses these names becomes a Neoist. Whereas Monty Cantsin is conceived as multiple Pop-Star, Karen Eliot can rather be described as multiple signature for any form of (anti-)art.

In the year 2000, found abandoned and near death in a dumpster in Tepoztlan, Mexico, Neoism was taken over by and absorbed into the the International Post-Dogmtist Group (founded in 1987) as a subsidiary of the IPDG.

If you want to take part in this Latin American based Neoist World's Fair in October of 2005 (exact dates and times to be announced) please fill out this form and send it in (via e-mail or snail mail). We guarantee the acceptance of every single entry as long as there is enough space left in the Conservatory of the The Ontological Museum and time left in Oct. 2005. The only condition for the acceptance of (anti-)art works/performances is the use of the signature "Karen Eliot" and respectively the multiple name "Monty Cantsin".

ADMISSION FORM:


a) I want to take part in the "Neoist World fair" under the multiple signature "Karen Eliot" with a work of (anti-)art. I declare to agree
with my work bearing the signature "Karen Eliot" and being donated to The Ontological Museum, Cuernavaca, after the end of exhibition.
prospective title of work:

b) I want to use space and/or infrastructure of the The Ontological Museum during the month of October for the following anti- or non artistic activities under the name of Monty Cantsin: organizing discussions, holding political assemblies (illegal for foreign visitors), playing dominos, destroying Neoist art-works, eating, gluing posters to city walls, inventing bumper sticker slogans, etc.

c) I want to declare a Neoist manifesto (max. 5 min.) under the name of Monty Cantsin: prospective title of manifesto:

d) Could you arrange a reservation at Casa del Artista or otherwise finding a cheap accommodation for me?


My name:
Address:
City:
Country:
tel.No:
e-mail:
web site:


All (anti-)artworks can be handed over to The Ontological Museum - after prior announcement/arrangement via the form above - or can be installed by the respective Karen Eliots themselves during the Fair. The Ontological Museum guarantees the acceptance of every work of (anti-)art, performance/activity and paper. The artifacts generated for the Fair will be exhibited on line on the neoist.org website.

Please send the filled out form via email to The Ontological Museum or contact us for further information:

The Ontological Museum
5-B Privada Pericon APT 4
Colonia Miraval
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 62700
Tel: +52-777-317-0795
Tel: + 646-405-7232 (NYC)
e-mail: mail@neoist.org

"The Pie's the Limit",
a delicious documentary produced by the Whispered Media video collective, features a cornucopia of political pie-throwings in San Francisco and beyond; a brief history of consumable comedy; behind the scenes interviews with real underground pie tossers; corporate media analysis, and in-your-face politics. Watch in delight as a half dozen demagogues are served up their just deserts! Order it via

"A chronicle of the global pastry uprising of the Biotic Baking Brigade, starring San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and the CEOs of Chevron and Monsanto. This video features a cornucopia of political pie-throwings in San Francisco and beyond, including a brief history of consumable comedy and behind the scenes interviews with real underground pie tossers... Plus, corporate media analysis and in-your-face politics. Watch in delight as a half dozen demagogues are served up their just deserts!"

Im (Wiener) Aufruf zum Euro Mayday wird nun endlich die Rolles des Heiligen Prekarius entsprechend gewürdigt:

Statt dem Lumpenproletariat zelebrieren diesmal prekär Beschäftigte aller Berufsgruppen, seien es nun SoftwareentwicklerInnen oder andere atypische Beschäftigte die Mayday-Parade. Unter der Ägide des heiligen Prekarius anstatt der Patronanz einer Partei kann eigentlich nichts schiefgehen.

via Beschädigtes Leben

Auch nicht schlecht: Die Absageagentur
Anspruchsvolle Absagen auf unzumutbare Stellenanzeigen schreiben. Dabei unterstützt uns die Absageagentur:

"Herzlich Willkommen auf den Seiten der Absageagentur Sie erhalten auch immer nur Absagen auf Ihre Bewerbungen oder sind unzufrieden mit Ihren Arbeitsbedingungen? Wir schaffen Abhilfe. Schreiben Sie endlich selbst eine Absage, einfach und kostenlos. Viele KundInnen sind sehr zufrieden mit unserem Service. Wie es geht, erfahren Sie auf unserer Formularseite. Die Absageagentur möchte Sie gezielt dabei unterstützen, unzumutbarer Lohnarbeit eine Absage zu erteilen. Wir bieten Ihnen einen effizienten Service wenn es darum geht, problematische Stellenangebote zu erkennen und dauerhafte Lösungen zu finden. Nehmen Sie unsere Hilfe in Anspruch, um die Flexibiltiät der Arbeitgeber zu testen sowie anspruchsvolle Absagen auf aktuelle Stellenanzeigen zu schreiben." Formulare runterladen:

William Kristol: Latest victim of the global pastry uprising!
(Project for a New American Century Founder Splattered In Indiana)

Report from "Indiana Pastry Partisans"( 30 Mar 2005)
Videos and text at Indymedia

Neo-Con pundit William Kristol was creamed with a Pie last night
while speaking at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

William Kristol, founder of the Project for a New American Century (a leading neo-con think tank) and a key figure in American foreign
policy for over 20 years, was hit by what appeared to be a cream pie
tonight in Richmond, Indiana. Throughout his speech, given at Earlham College, he defended the "Bush doctrine" of pre-emptive war and state terror and was in the process of comparing current policy challenges to those of the early Cold War when a young man calmly lifted himself onto the stage and quickly walked to the podium, splattering a delicious dish all overthe speaker as well as the college's president (collateral damage, perhaps?)

Unfortunately, after a period of shock, many people in the audience
stood and clapped to show support for Kristol (for a total of three
standing ovations), including many self-professed peace activists and liberals who were afraid that this succulently sweet action would
discredit Earlham College. They apparently forgot, perhaps due to his liability as a speaker, of Kristol's central role in the Reagan and
Bush I administrations, his long efforts as a Harvard-trained
political scientist to provide the intellectual justification for the
Bush agenda of foreign intervention, and his current place as an
architect of a war in Iraq which has claimed tens of thousands of
innocent lives.

Nicht geworfen, sondern fast gedrückt

There has been an escalating hysteria among some sectors of Earlham College, which is supposedly dedicated to pacifist and Quaker values, demanding a range of responses from expulsion (if the confectionary offender proves to be a student) to the pressing of criminal charges against the as-yet-unidentified revolutionary baker. We will post more updates in the next days. Please be ready to support this bold pie-slinger. contact: indiana_pastries@hotmail.com

Der Beitrag von Rudi Maier (Mediologische Vereinigung Ludwigsburg) über die Ausstellung im Lentos-Museum in Linz in der jüngsten Jungle World gibt uns den Anlass auf seine "so geht revolution"-Ausstellung hinzuweisen: "Werbung & Revolte - ein Ausstellungsprojekt in progress"


"So geht Revolution"

Hier findet sich jeweils zu Monatsbeginn die "Anzeige des Monats"

Die "Anzeige" stand mal auf dieser Webseite:
Inzwischen soll LEGO inteveniert haben und es ist verschwunden. Warum eigentlich?