'Manifesto'

n. pl. man-i-fes-toes or
         man-i-fes-tos
A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially of a political nature.

An artist's manifesto may follow this conventional definition to an extent. However, they often differ in the vagueness of the subject matter and opinion. Thus, many of such manifestos can be broadly interpreted among individuals. It was through this nature of art manifestos that I considered how I may produce my own, according to specific A0 format we were required to produce our piece on. My intention was to produce a 'manifesto' based on the vaguest possible response/s developed for the most common basis to questioning:

I set out to persuade people to provide me a series of questions for me to respond to, as long as it was possible to answer them by only stating 'yes' or 'no'. Even then, my answers did not correspond to the order of the questions which I received them, making any understanding to my response lost to anyone besides myself. This was to adhere to a personal element behind my manifesto while letting myself confide in productivity despite a disinterest in expressing the project brief to such limitations.

My 'manifesto' Yes/No as presented for exhibition.

Yes/No (2010)

However, once I was able to produce this response, I immediately delved into an additional project that was still closely knit to the intention of the project brief. As an attempt to express concerns over the pressures art in British academia has been facing, I toyed around with the idea of the notion of pursuing and supporting arts as a rebellious attitude, albeit minor.

Therefore...

I also wished to toy around with the unusual commercial accessibility and exploit the anarchy symbol has experienced and therefore incorporate it into an accessible and commercially exploitable slogan:

 

I developed this through a simple media, as fabric paint onto t-shirts as bought on-masse from a major clothes shop.

I was able to get multiple students and even some tutors involved getting them to wear the shirts. I asked for appropriate shirt sizes in advance of buying them for painting.

"I am Anartist" (2011)

I definitely found the t-shirt the more entertaining of the outcomes I developed for this project brief and it also drew in the most intrigue compared to my more restrained project idea.