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Director's Statement
“… There’s a benevolent psychopathology that beckons towards us …”
… Mandatory J.G. Ballard quotation aside, let’s analyze this statement…Benevolent … Hmm … Interesting choice … But how can we objectively investigate the impact of sickness as a positive force of change and creativity? … How can we measure the benevolent impact of pathologies and psychopathologies in our lives? … Is so-called “normality” necessarily malevolent, brutal and quite simply too cheap for words or is our judgment impaired? … Is madness solid? … Liquid? … Maybe a gas? Can we bottle and drink madness? Can we feed on art? Can we propagate madness, spread it like a virus, celebrate its rampaging destructive exhibitionism and feel exhilarated by its abject beauty? Yes we can … Can we operate benevolently within the inane organisms of normality and sanity and slowly erode their fundaments? YES WE MUST!!!
… We are driven by our very own sense of alienation and we will have to act accordingly … We will live in parallel worlds of depraved words and sounds … We will move along parallel and never converging trajectories … We will cross the main road only to cause havoc and malaise … We will watch the lights of manufactured reason from our hideout on the hills and attack the flocks of sheep at night leaving incomprehensible graffiti on their carcasses … We’ll never lie, not to ourselves, at least … TRUTH IS TO BE FOUND IN SICKNESS AND MORBIDITY ONLY … We will obsess, we will obsess, we will obsess … and we will document our obsessions in fragmented and sublime verses …
… We will never belong … Never ever … We will never read the instructions …
We will improvise and deconstruct our thoughts and actions … And ultimately we will refuse to act as planned and will destroy and rebuild … destroy … rebuild … and leave roadkill behind …
… And is this going to make us happy? No…but maybe next time it will … or maybe the one after … or somewhere in the proximity of never … Never ever …
… So, going back to the core of our main question … Is Madness a form of Art? Or rather is Art a form of Madness? Can Sickness lead to Greatness? …
These and other Big Issues will all be dissected and quartered in MUFF 8 … MUFF has always been a joyous gathering of uninhibited serial psychopaths so I don’t anticipate any changes this year … Richard Wolstencroft will personally guarantee consistency and continuity and will gladly invite every guest and visitor to actively manifest publicly their deepest and most unconfessable pathologies for everybody’s enjoyment … And if someone out there has a problem with it … Well that’s jolly good, chaps … He’ll ride the controversies as usual, knock out a few critics, smash a few glasses, step on plenty of toes and, when all is said and done, he’ll make sure that we won’t go gentle into that good night, but that we’ll rather RAGE, RAGE, RAGE (repeat ad libitum) against the dying of the light …
And if this doesn’t make sense don’t blame me. I take no responsibility. I make no apologies.
I’m obviously a psychopath.
Not a benevolent one.
Just a nasty old bastard …
