Nervism: of mouth, eyes, ears and skin: the texture and temperature of the world in our touch, on our breath.
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Nervism is to say in public what one dare not say in private, to make a public life free of fakery, secrets and lies.
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Nervism is the art of Roughness and Risk. Roughness and Risk create accidents and mistakes which open the cracks of the World’s terrible edifice – to create anew. Accidents and mistakes are True Successes.
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Nervism: create and think through the nerves. There are 7 billion nerve endings in the human body. Without nerves, the brain is mush.
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All art is lifelong play and dancing.
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Nervism lends itself to collaboration with others: a “nerve fest” can create a mountain of electricity, an ocean of imaginings.
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Artificial Intelligence has no nerves. Fingers up to AI!
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Nervism on craft: make patterns to break patterns.
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Nervism on tradition: create your own rituals, rewrite the rules, make your own rules.
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Nervism is a theatre of contradictions, an art of opposites, a poetry of Faraday’s dream-dancing snakes…
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Surrealism gave us “psychic automatism” and spontaneity. Nervism goes Beyond in the immediate impulse in fingers, on the breath, in the moment, in the movement…
I can see the lush green grass over the wall and the blue, blue sky of freedom beyond.
Hold your nerve – let it free! This is Nervism.
Rupert Mallin
Rupert Mallin is a member of the NR3 Art Depot Collective.
He blogs here.
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