The End of Surrealism
BOB EZERGAILIS
THE MORPHEALIST MANIFESTO
We, Morphealists, believe in Change.
We, Morphealists, believe in nothing else, as being absolute, other than Change
Morphealists, believe that everything Changes.
We believe that everything that existed in what is commonly referred to as "the
that exists in what is commonly referred to as "the present", or that could exi
what is commonly referred to as "the future", is subject to Change. In fact, so
is past, present and future, subject to Change.
We believe that anything, that is either imaginable or unimaginable, has existe
could exist, somewhere in the absolute of all of space and all of time. We bel
the limits of the human imagination are also completely subject to Change. We b
that what was, what is, and what shall be, imagined in its distinction to what
subject to change.
We believe in the power of Change as being the last and only remaining genuinel
supernatural power. The power of Change remains supernatural, because Change an
only Change transcends all previously existing, now existing, and future existi
and potential natures and powers, as their only constant. There are no other, r
constants in Nature or in Science. All other apparent constants are subject to
Even the effective processes, that existed, exist, or that shall exist, are all
Change.
Causalities, all causal relations themselves, are potentially subject to Chang
that a particular observable cause gives rise to a particular observable effect
that is commonly believed to be predictably thus, is not necessarily thus in th
in the future. It was only thus at that moment of the observation and predictio
apparent thusness, no matter how many times the same is observed or how careful
and closely it is scrutinized, is subject to Change. This is not negated by any
continuous series of similar or identical causal relations, having been apparen
observed, between any particular kind of presumed cause and any particular pres
kind of effect. The only certainty in causality is Change.
Change is not a theoretical principle, or an idea, or an existent, or an energ
and yet there is nothing whatever, that ever existed, that exists, or is yet to
is not subject to Change, and which does not exhibit the effects of Change.
Change is everywhere, and in everything, and yet change is not any particular t
any particular principle. It is the most fundamental characteristic of everywhe
everything.
In fact there is no thought, and there are no ideas, without Change. The very i
of keeping an idea in mind, as it has arisen there, itself involves Change. Any
activity involves Changes. The mind is essentially Change. Minds constantly Cha
We believe that everything that once existed, and does not now exist, is subjec
power of Change, such that shall somewhere, someday, exist again. In fact we be
that, subject to the power of Change, that which did not ever exist and that wh
appeared to have passed from existence, might subsequently have existed, or not
have not existed. We believe then, that neither the logical proposition that it
exist, nor the logical proposition that it never did not exist, is falsified. T
departure from all previous beliefs and thinking.
Similarly, we believe, with equal resolve, that, subject to the power of Change
exists and was known, with absolute certainty, to have existed, might, hencefor
exist and then be known, with absolute certainty, as never having existed. We b
then, that neither the logical proposition, it existed, nor the logical proposi
never existed, is falsified. This is another radical departure from all previou
We believe that Change is the fundamental paradox, and that all paradoxes of ti
and space are ultimately resolvable to that fundamental paradox.
We believe that Change is absolute and that all changing is itself subject to C
We believe that the rate of change might be stopped, accelerated, or decreased,
instance of anything changing, by means of Change. The apparent limitations as
effecting this, whether they are limitations as to thought or technology, are s
Change. Ultimately even the means of effecting such Changes could themselves be
effected by Change and could be themselves Changed.
Morphealism is the belief in the effecting of changes.
The advance forces of the Morphealist movement are the artists. Morphealism is
successor of Surrealism. Where Surrealism dealt with the idea and its transmuta
and permutations of possibilities, Morphealism deals with the manifestation int
of the Surrealist Idea. The Surrealists were the early prophets of Morphealism
domain was the production of icons and symbols, within a language that pertains
the transformations of the mind as its thoughts. This was the first realization
world as being Morpheality.
We Morphealists recognize the fact that the mind is a mirror of the external wo
Thoughts are the mirror in which the world reflects. The nature of the mind's
processes reflect the nature of the world as manifestations of the very same
Morpheality. We Morphealists recognize
that the mind and its thoughts, as it was, is, and shall be, is subject to bein
as a part of the world as Morpheality.
The stuff that the world is made of, its matter and energies, its quanta, are t
that Morpheality is comprised of. Morphealism in the arts is the forerunner of
Morphealism in those realities that go beyond the arts. The arts provide the
experimental basis for the implementation of the techniques of Morphealism to t
whole of the world as Morpheality.
Whereas Surrealism was a new school, a new style, a new genre, of art and withi
arts, we Morphealists announce the end of all schools, styles, and genres of ar
Morphealism art is liberated from the categories that human thinking imposed up
and from all the traditional categories that did, do or ever could, defined the
Morphealists believe that all transmutations and transformations, all
transubstantiations, of anything that was, is, or is yet to be, are an art. Tha
art that is no longer art as it was known, and the final art that is the culmin
of the arts, and of all artistic schools, styles and genres. It is not where ar
once met or meet, but instead where art and life become the same. It is where a
life and life is art.
Morphealism is the first advance in thinking that has no ancestry. All of Morph
predecessors and ancestors are subject to Change. All of Morphealism's methods,
techniques, means and ways, are subject to Change. This distinguishes Morpheali
from all precedents. All of Morphealism's's results, products, effects, are sub
Change. Unlike everything before it, Morphealism has no ideology, and refuses t
used by any ideology as with the advent of Morphealism we Morphealists believe
all ideologies are subject to Change.
We Morphealists announce the final end of art and the beginning of Morpheality
where Morphealism has no specific materials or effects distinctive unto itself,
previous arts and technologies, but instead is inclusive of all the potentialit
possible involvements with all possible and imaginable past, present, and futur
materials and means, of Change. Morphealism is the culmination of the prophecie
alchemy, and thus of the dreams of the sciences, as to the Great Work of
transmutation that becomes Morphealism's Changing of everything.
Morphealism and the production of Morpheality is the final purpose of humanity.
Morphealism is the final method inclusive of all methods and t the liberation f
methods. Morpheality is the final result, inclusive of all possible results and
liberation from efficacies. Morphealism is the new and constant dynamism that
productive of the world of human and non human beings, of all existed, exists o
shall exist, as becoming the whole of the Morpheality.
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July 21st, 1996 Bob Ezergailis
* SLMR 2.1a * bob ezergailis bob.eze...@ghbbs.com
Carlos Martins
End of Surrealism?
As whole detractors of Surrealism produced in a massive way by
the several institutions of the system, and despite the value of your
theorization about Change (as you know all dialectical movements are based on
it) you also talk about a called "end" of surrealism. Why? If you are very
conscious what Surrealism is, why you talk about the end of Surrealism? You
mean the end of defense of poetry, love and freedom from people to the people?
You mean the end of struggle against all the chains that blocked the spirit
and prevented it to be totally free? You mean the end of exaltation of Desire?
The so-called end of Surrealism is a matter that really works with those
detractors that try to hide the truly revolutionary nature and principles
of Surrealism. Only academics of any kind (and even some "surrealists")
try to convince us that Surrealism is dead and not active in present times.
Have you heard about the surrealist activities in Lisbon, Leeds, Chicago
in present days? No?
Surely what those detractors called as Surrealism is of course different that
we as surrealists think and are doing. As the mediocrats they try to convince
the masses that the surrealists main concerns - the whole mind`s emancipation
- is already done, and we live in the "realm of the imagination". Imagination
or just mind`s torture? How we may speak about the "realm of imagination" when
the world is treated as a capitalist big farm, peoples from evrywhere are
treated as slaves and childreen are being treated as hamsters definively
with their souls definitively rapped by a very sofisticated army of "matter
over mind" theorists of any kind. How we can talk about the end of Surrealism
when we see free minded spirits like Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested and comdamned to
death in a Pensilvania jail manly because he is a political activist for
freedom and not a silenced lamb as million of others in USA?
Certainly Surrealism (why you don`t say "the end of impressionism" or
"the end of realism"? you think they are also ended? and only post-
-modernists theories like yours are existing now? )is not the same thing
we are talking. Probably you emphasize a kind of "surrealist style" as per my
friend Joao Garcao says "...frequent and wrongly Surrealism is connected
to a pictoric representation of biologically desfigured characters with the
hears on the ass and the teeths in the axillas". However Surrealism is much
more a revolutionary movement of free thought expressed in different
domains and by different means so we refuse a proper style for the surrealist
expression. Still quoting my friend Joao Garcao (in "Surrealist theater in
Portugal") "may be surrealist either the denouncement of a corrupted
politician as also the spontaneous transposition from a tempestuous interior
life to the written word or any other mean of expression".
Probably for centuries there will be always people that enjoyed to deal
with lie and mistification. Probably for centuries there will be
millions of people that submit their minds to deviated theories about
what surrealism is and the so-called "end" of it. Totally in vain. Since
the begining of times the struggle for freedom and love never ends.
regars
carlos martins
http://www.openart.com/artistes/martins/accueil.htm
Erik Rot
Morphealism something really different or the
n-attempt to pose something new?
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> THE MORPHEALIST MANIFESTO
>
> We, Morphealists, believe in Change.
> We, Morphealists, believe in nothing else, as being absolute, other than Change. We,
> Morphealists, believe that everything Changes.
>
> We believe that everything that existed in what is commonly referred to as "the past",
> that exists in what is commonly referred to as "the present", or that could exist, in
> what is commonly referred to as "the future", is subject to Change. In fact, so is what
> is past, present and future, subject to Change.
>
> We believe that anything, that is either imaginable or unimaginable, has existed, or
> could exist, somewhere in the absolute of all of space and all of time. We believe that
> the limits of the human imagination are also completely subject to Change. We believe
> that what was, what is, and what shall be, imagined in its distinction to what is real, is
> subject to change.
>
> We believe in the power of Change as being the last and only remaining genuinely
> supernatural power. The power of Change remains supernatural, because Change and
> only Change transcends all previously existing, now existing, and future existing, actual
> and potential natures and powers, as their only constant. There are no other, real,
> constants in Nature or in Science. All other apparent constants are subject to Change.
>
> Even the effective processes, that existed, exist, or that shall exist, are all subject to
> Change.
>
> Causalities, all causal relations themselves, are potentially subject to Change. The fact
> that a particular observable cause gives rise to a particular observable effect, and that
> that is commonly believed to be predictably thus, is not necessarily thus in the past or
> in the future. It was only thus at that moment of the observation and prediction. That
> apparent thusness, no matter how many times the same is observed or how carefully
> and closely it is scrutinized, is subject to Change. This is not negated by any fact of a
> continuous series of similar or identical causal relations, having been apparently
> observed, between any particular kind of presumed cause and any particular presumed
> kind of effect. The only certainty in causality is Change.
>
> Change is not a theoretical principle, or an idea, or an existent, or an energetic force,
> and yet there is nothing whatever, that ever existed, that exists, or is yet to exist, that
> is not subject to Change, and which does not exhibit the effects of Change.
>
> Change is everywhere, and in everything, and yet change is not any particular thing, or
> any particular principle. It is the most fundamental characteristic of everywhere and
> everything.
>
> In fact there is no thought, and there are no ideas, without Change. The very intention
> of keeping an idea in mind, as it has arisen there, itself involves Change. Any mental
> activity involves Changes. The mind is essentially Change. Minds constantly Change.
>
> We believe that everything that once existed, and does not now exist, is subject to the
> power of Change, such that shall somewhere, someday, exist again. In fact we believe
> that, subject to the power of Change, that which did not ever exist and that which
> appeared to have passed from existence, might subsequently have existed, or not ever
> have not existed. We believe then, that neither the logical proposition that it did not
> exist, nor the logical proposition that it never did not exist, is falsified. This is a radical
> departure from all previous beliefs and thinking.
>
> Similarly, we believe, with equal resolve, that, subject to the power of Change, what
> exists and was known, with absolute certainty, to have existed, might, henceforth not
> exist and then be known, with absolute certainty, as never having existed. We believe
> then, that neither the logical proposition, it existed, nor the logical proposition, it
> never existed, is falsified. This is another radical departure from all previous thinking.
>
> We believe that Change is the fundamental paradox, and that all paradoxes of time
> and space are ultimately resolvable to that fundamental paradox.
>
> We believe that Change is absolute and that all changing is itself subject to Change.
> We believe that the rate of change might be stopped, accelerated, or decreased, in any
> instance of anything changing, by means of Change. The apparent limitations as to
> effecting this, whether they are limitations as to thought or technology, are subject to
> Change. Ultimately even the means of effecting such Changes could themselves be
> effected by Change and could be themselves Changed.
>
> Morphealism is the belief in the effecting of changes.
>
> The advance forces of the Morphealist movement are the artists. Morphealism is the
> successor of Surrealism.
Are artists not the most backward forces of society living in there
autistic, hermetic
worlds. And also aren't they also the most reactionairy force in modern
post-capitalism.
Like junkies they're always on the search for money to finance their art.
And a good
artist even wants to die for his/her piece of shit.
Sucessor of surrealism
What was surrealism after "the artists" to hold of the movement in the
mid 20's? Yes,
A productionmachine expensive merchandise.
Other movements that claim to be succesors of surrealism leaving away the
100's
of imitators:
Lettrism
Situationism
Fluxus
Wiener Gruppe
Zero
Cobra
& all the neo/post etc. versions
Not a follow-up but something worth for you to investigate:
La Grande Jeu
> Where Surrealism dealt with the idea and its transmutations
> and permutations of possibilities, Morphealism deals with the manifestation into reality
> of the Surrealist Idea. The Surrealists were the early prophets of Morphealism. Their
> domain was the production of icons and symbols, within a language that pertains to
> the transformations of the mind as its thoughts. This was the first realization of the
> world as being Morpheality.
Ever read a guy called Baudrillard?
> We Morphealists recognize the fact that the mind is a mirror of the external world.
> Thoughts are the mirror in which the world reflects. The nature of the mind's
> processes reflect the nature of the world as manifestations of the very same
> Morpheality. We Morphealists recognize
> that the mind and its thoughts, as it was, is, and shall be, is subject to being Changed
> as a part of the world as Morpheality.
Hmm, leibnizian metaphysics. As there had not even been a GWF Hegel.
Where did you start thinking?
> The stuff that the world is made of, its matter and energies, its quanta, are the stuff
> that Morpheality is comprised of. Morphealism in the arts is the forerunner of
> Morphealism in those realities that go beyond the arts. The arts provide the
> experimental basis for the implementation of the techniques of Morphealism to the
> whole of the world as Morpheality.
>
> Whereas Surrealism was a new school, a new style, a new genre, of art and within the
> arts, we Morphealists announce the end of all schools, styles, and genres of art.
In which manifestoes did I read that too?
> In
> Morphealism art is liberated from the categories that human thinking imposed upon it
> and from all the traditional categories that did, do or ever could, defined the arts. We
> Morphealists believe that all transmutations and transformations, all
> transubstantiations, of anything that was, is, or is yet to be, are an art. That is the final
> art that is no longer art as it was known, and the final art that is the culmination of all
> of the arts, and of all artistic schools, styles and genres. It is not where art and life
> once met or meet, but instead where art and life become the same. It is where art is
> life and life is art.
Did you ever reseached why there's no longer an Avant Garde? Except a
simulation
of so called Avantgarde movements.
A suggestion for reading:
The theory of the Avant Garde - Peter Buerger (1974!)
>
> Morphealism is the first advance in thinking that has no ancestry.
Heracleitos???
> All of Morphealism's
> predecessors and ancestors are subject to Change. All of Morphealism's methods,
> techniques, means and ways, are subject to Change.
I'm curious? What are the Morphealist methods NOW! This could probably be
of some
interest.
> This distinguishes Morphealism
> from all precedents. All of Morphealism's's results, products, effects, are subject to
> Change. Unlike everything before it, Morphealism has no ideology, and refuses to be
> used by any ideology as with the advent of Morphealism we Morphealists believe that
> all ideologies are subject to Change.
Sounds more like post modernism than something new...
>
> We Morphealists announce the final end of art and the beginning of Morpheality
> where Morphealism has no specific materials or effects distinctive unto itself, as did all
> previous arts and technologies, but instead is inclusive of all the potentialities of all
> possible involvements with all possible and imaginable past, present, and future
> materials and means, of Change. Morphealism is the culmination of the prophecies of
> alchemy, and thus of the dreams of the sciences, as to the Great Work of
> transmutation that becomes Morphealism's Changing of everything.
Who's interested in the end of art nowadays. I heard too much of that
sort of
proclaimations in the past 10 years. It's not only an empty but also a
boring statement.
>
> Morphealism and the production of Morpheality is the final purpose of humanity.
> Morphealism is the final method inclusive of all methods and t the liberation from
> methods. Morpheality is the final result, inclusive of all possible results and thus the
> liberation from efficacies. Morphealism is the new and constant dynamism that is
> productive of the world of human and non human beings, of all existed, exists or ever
> shall exist, as becoming the whole of the Morpheality.
>
>MorphealISM the most stupid word-choice for something that pretents
change.
An Ism is something that is, something you can get grip on.
Read Heidegger:
"Sein und Zeit."
And learn that "Seinsvergessenheit" is something you can't theoretical
discuss.
This where just some remarks about the content. I just jumped over the
the internal logic.
Overal note 4 (on a scale from 0 to 10 where 10 is the highest)
Forget the concept of morphealism, it will probably never be
something inspiring.
E.R.
Joep de Graaff
To 24-07-96 17:28, in message <3282.5358...@mail.telepac.pt>, Carlos
Martins <ana...@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
> End of Surrealism?
> As whole detractors of Surrealism produced in a massive way by
_cut_
> The so-called end of Surrealism is a matter that really works with those
> detractors that try to hide the truly revolutionary nature and principles
> of Surrealism. Only academics of any kind (and even some "surrealists")
> try to convince us that Surrealism is dead and not active in present times.
> Have you heard about the surrealist activities in Lisbon, Leeds, Chicago
> in present days? No?
No, inform me,please
> Surely what those detractors called as Surrealism is of course different that
_cut_
> Probably you emphasize a kind of "surrealist style" as per my
> friend Joao Garcao says "...frequent and wrongly Surrealism is connected
> to a pictoric representation of biologically desfigured characters with the
> hears on the ass and the teeths in the axillas".
True. Most people think surrealism means paintings in a realistic style that
depict weird fantasies that cannot exist in the real world. But that is not
what surrealism is about. Surrealism shows there is not such a thing as 'the
real world'.
Of course Salvador Dali was a great surrealist painter. But I prefer Magritte.
Magrittes realistic style is clumsy, but the contents of his paintings always
are clear while disturbing and confusing. The realism of Dalis paintings is
sophisticated but the contents often are clumsy and only amusing amusing. Art
should not be amusing. Art should reveal truth or invent it.
> However Surrealism is much
> more a revolutionary movement of free thought expressed in different
> domains and by different means so we refuse a proper style for the surrealist
> expression. Still quoting my friend Joao Garcao (in "Surrealist theater in
> Portugal") "may be surrealist either the denouncement of a corrupted
> politician as also the spontaneous transposition from a tempestuous interior
> life to the written word or any other mean of expression".
True, surrealism is not a style, it is a state of mind in which the individual
explores his perception and his creativity by denying the limitations of the
rational. Even old techniques the surrealists invented (automatic writing,
painting, "le cadavre exquis") can turn in a rational trap when applied as a
stylistic gag.
> Probably for centuries there will be always people that enjoyed to deal
> with lie and mistification. Probably for centuries there will be
> millions of people that submit their minds to deviated theories about
> what surrealism is and the so-called "end" of it. Totally in vain. Since
> the begining of times the struggle for freedom and love never ends.
Once more: true!!
The surrealistic state of mind has always been a source of artistic invention.
It didn't start with Huelsenbeck, Breton or Tsara. It will never stop.
> regars
> carlos martins
>
> http://www.openart.com/artistes/martins/accueil.htm
>
--
Joep de Graaff
joe...@worldaccess.nl