Take Kafka as an example of how you can build your personal system-strategy to do things in life. How you can stand apart from your homogenised surroundings. How you can take part in the world and at the same time not to be what the world wants you to be. How you can take advantage of the world's mechanisms in order to build your own. How you can shift continuously from one situation to another in the constant rebuilding of your own personal strategies.
We, Savage School, resist the outside world's impulses to incorporate and destroy difference. We do this by producing new difference all the time. Every time we have the chance to deal with a new major territory, we manage to build our own system, always prompted by the major one, but at the same time oppositional to it. As well as minor art we construct minor economies and minor managements, minor entertainments, minor fashions, minor cinemas and so on.
Minor art can necessitate becoming minor curators in order to provide a collaboration pitched against against the macho fellowship of the art world. It can mean us producing a beautiful, scruffy art (for instance, a bar made with cheap wood and plastic mirrors). Minor economy can consist of advertising shabby bars and shops in Shoreditch through covering our own car with huge advertising stickers we've designed. Minor entertainment can be a pistol range which we can organise everywhere; minor cinema a cinema as social sculpture intended as a collective participatory event.
We think this kind of creativity is everywhere in the visual arts London, at least in the East End where we live. The extraordinary shop windows around Whitechapel, especially the most ragged ones, are "minor visual". What we are looking for is, always, oddness; an uncomfortable oddness you cannot really grasp the meaning of. Is it art or advertisement? Is it a cinema or fashion? Is it a post-fascist head-quarters or what? There is a component of challenging madness in all this; a madness which challenges the expectation of the Major Man. Savage School is about minor life before it is about minor art. It is about the reterritorialisation of different spaces of life.
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