FUTILISTIC MANIFEST (Extracts)

An (im)possible description of futilism:
The meaning of the source word, futile, finds itself unrestfully among the semantics of words as meaninglessness, aimlessness, targetless, emptyness,
worthlessness etc.
And trying to avoid misunderstandings right from the beginning, I say:
Futilism is not about worshipping, visualising or representing the futile.It is an exploration process of an unprejudiced view of futility as an abstract
idea. This process aims to invent and reveal new patterns of inspiration as we seem to have run out of socio political truth.
This exploration process of the futile, I call futilism. The largest problem of communicating the idea of futilsm is, by experience, the hurdle of negativism. The hurdle of negativism is an obstuction the general and understandable conception of the semantics of the futile. Most people are brought up with a negative idea of the futile as being nothing but worhtless noise.
The hurdle of negativism can only be overcomed by explaining that futility easily can be regarded as a neutral space of useful and potential noise and not as the traditionally concieved dangerous wasteland. The image of the space of potential noise can be used to pass the hurdle ofnegativism.

The image of the space of useful noise:
Picture you a homogeneous landscape without noticeable differences like a mental desert. Okay ?
When entering this futile landscape you notice a number sporadically placed monuments of about the same colour and materiality as the overall mental desert. These monuments are not immediately detectable because they represent burnt out historical metaphysical ideas and are today reduced to relics of almost archaeological sites left to the mercy of eroding desert storms.
You discover that these monuments represent concentrations of essence and values in which humanity has sublimated faith through time. You decide to name them relics of metaphysical monuments, r.o.m.m.'s. Around these r.o.m.m.'s you find yourself in a homelike position as you immediately understand the sounds and impressions you sense. But after a cheerful short term recognition you find yourself in a mood of passive
nostalgia. You seek some of the other monuments only to experience the same
as with the first r.o.m.m.
You almost by chance detect strange noises and shapes of the areas between the r.o.m.m.'s and you decide to explore it further. You feel strange because your brain tells you that you are way off track, but your heart feels good. You decide to name the space between the r.o.m.m.'s and you call it interland.
As time goes by, you feel in a better mood. All the noise and useless shapes of the interland seems to inspire you to many new and totally different
combinations of thoughts. You feel better as you recognize that all these new configurations are free of the heavy bonds of nostalgic feelings you were used to around the r.o.m.m.'s.
Slowly you recognize this interland as something usefull and not as meaningless noise like they taught you in school. And the interesting part of it is that you do not feel a sense of denying history because a lot of the new ideas from the interland involves and deals with elements and fragments of the r.o.m.m.'s. You find your self in a peaceful kind of neutral space where all depends on your own actions of mind. So, having cleared away the problems of the hurdle of negativism by the help of the image of the space of potential noise, I will leave you with a number of, I hope, entertaining aforisms on futilism.
Have I lost you, you artlovers?

Kristian Hornsleth

artist - Copehagen DK

http://www.hornsleth.com