Undercover anti-gentrification

Our Story

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Formed in Weisensee in 2011, :Artwât! emerged in

response to the changing international art

landscape after two of its founding members met each other at the Dubai Biannale. 

:Artwât! is a collective, a space, a concept, a philosophy.

:Artwât! has since curated a number of underground

pop up events internationality under different

titles including Rambling Tongue (Oubliette Art

Collective), Reel to Real NightLife (California

Academy of Sciences) Details Unknown, Utopia (with

Penny Woolcock at Roundhouse London) and Penguin

Plays Rough.

Manifesto

The world of Artwât:!

A world of abandonment, transcendental abandonment.

A world of cosmetic surgery where people make themselves 5 times the size of normal people

A world we sleep in nature or on the street once a month

A world with starved bouncy castles

Adverts so invasive they slap the audience

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An orgiastic explosion every week at the same time

Begin the real quest to define the absurd as no one really bothered before 

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Blood sweat tears and cum

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Break into theatres during shows and storm the stage. Invade the classical rich houses with armies of performers.

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Capital punishment for architectural offences

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Each day of the week to be allocated to the mood of a Grecian god

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Extremely long performances tapped and sold as b sides.

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Gain a better understanding of hatred

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I don’t want to hold hands in a circle, I want our legs wrapped around each other

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We want prejudice rooms, a racist room, and a sexist room where we get it all out and put it in the bin.

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Make productions for furniture

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Maniacal

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More nature to mutate and become half man half moss

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No literalism

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No shoes Mondays

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Of a pink quivering blamonge

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Ooze dripping audience

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Pleasure

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Porn to be played behind us when we do company administration

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Reappropriating spaces for performers

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Speak poetry, eat poetry, shit poetry, fuck poetry

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The inside out and the outside in, adopt external structures and consciously take them in

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To become artistically pregnant and to give birth and eat your own placenta

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To investigate how what we consume actually hits our body

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To orphan our creative spawn where they are cut off and survive on the love of others

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To really breed, extended over very long periods of time

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To really find out what the orifice is

to redefine the word enemy

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Turn everything upside down and stick everything onto the ceiling

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Uplifted by the fists of people below me

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Visceral

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A world where Björk is forced to sell frozen foods

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Where it is a legal requirement to talk to trees

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Where we accept a fence is still a wall

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This is the world of Artwât:!

Still works