The Fucked-Up Drawing Party #14 : FUDP
Jan. 19, 9PM – 2AM
FUDP: NYC ¡PROPAGANDA OF CHAOS!
“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.”
OR
“I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.”
-Thomas Jefferson
There is no better time than now for The Fucked-Up Drawing Party to uproot from its Los Angeles post and manifest itself in New York City. There is has been a lot of fucked-up stuff going on, hurricane Sandy being one of them, yet there is so much more.
Developing community, sharing ideas, and mobilizing are the first steps towards change. Images and symbols can galvanize revolutions
Commune with us and your fellow citizens as we voice outrage and frustration through one of the most ancient and powerful means of creation and communication. Let’s fucking draw!
Bring some of your favorite booze and art supplies. You must be 21+ to attend.
Cash donations to support EYEHEART, Local Project, The Ho_se and TheFUDP are very much appreciated.
MANIFESTO
The purpose of a Fucked-Up Drawing Party is to get fucked-up (i.e. intoxicated) and draw things that are fucked-up (i.e. disturbing or unsettling). What constitutes a Fucked-Up Drawing is different for everyone. Some people express the fucked-up in aberrant sexuality or perverse violence, for others it may be politically charged. Styles range from abstract mark making to soft-core realism. The drawings can be eccentrically overt or decidedly subtle. The ultimate test is that when you look at a drawing, you should think to yourself, “whoa, that’s fucked-up.”
ucked-Up Drawing Parties are for everyone, you don’t have to be an artist. No one is pressured to make a “good” drawing in the conventional sense– perspective, accurate anatomy, composition, chiaroscuro, crosshatching.. such skills are not required. Collaboration is encouraged! The resulting collective momentum ensures that each individual has a network of creative support. With this momentum, Fucked-Up Drawing Parties can happen anywhere, whether it be in the alley, the foyer, or Texarkana. And while these events are considered “parties,” production of drawings, addressing the “fucked-up, and getting fucked-up is essential.
Ideally, the Fucked-Up Drawing Parties create a space where all types of people can gather and feel free to voice their deepest, darkest concerns, without fear of castigation. This creation of shared abject imagery and the address of political and social injustice, disrupts the hegemonic flow of mass media, and acts as a primer for change.
The affects of a Fucked-Up Drawing Party can be seen in the residue of drawings and inebriation the morning after. To exit a Fucked-Up Drawing Party is to embark on a walk, not of shame, but of revitalization towards your freshly fucked-up life.
STATEMNT
The Fucked-Up Drawing Party creates a temporary community for the creation of art without rules or hierarchies. It is fully participatory — one is welcomed and encouraged to do so — and relational, but without the trappings or the demands of the art market.
The Fucked-Up Drawing Party is an aesthetics that foregrounds one’s existence as aesthetic and it engages with the politics of aesthetics, which is to say that it highlights that all aesthetic practices are political and they are also ethical.
The Fucked-Up Drawing Party creates a de-stratified space for others to participate, gather, and collaborate — even if only for a night, which shows that even fleeting social relations are valuable and have the potential to un-do the subject, while strengthening notions of community and politics.
The Fucked-Up Drawing Party is an inheritance of the sensibilities of Dada, Surrealism, and some tactics of the Situationist International. However, it pushed these historical avant-garde groups further and in directions not previously mapped out by them.
The resulting performative momentum of The Fucked-Up Drawing Party ensures that each individual joins in the collective endeavor to distant ourselves from the ongoing threat of cultural hegemony.
For more info, visit these links on the interweb:
The FUDP
www.facebook.com/thefudp.