MANUAL: MONTH #145
"introducing my filming of public spaces work saying that it has been often about getting into a city that since the beginning of my project has got more and more gentrified nd siding with people like me living in the periphery who are forced to work for the city seeing my work has rather that of extracting from such a power structure rather than serve it and be extracted in turn"
MANUAL: MONTH #146
"developing a critique of modernity not really allowing the type of depth that society was able to conceive when it was left to its own devices slowly negotiating its space as part of a local environment and seeing more and more the vanishing point of a space as this holly depth which has been central to my memory cathedral on which my whole life-project is based and in this respect seeing the need to propose to top relying on the centralization of the system and regain back our own human centrality so as to make our local society and local environment benefit"
MANUAL: MONTH #147
"going into how cities at the core are turning into highly gentrified malls and how this commercialization is not only unsustainable for the environment but forced people to become materialistic and consumer oriented proposing instead my practice as that of an animal reclaiming these spaces but also going as far as suggesting that everyone should use them to manifest their own nature and with it reawaken their more immaterial and healthy side"
MANUAL: MONTH #148
"describing how conviniently the capitalist system and the financial elite has locked up people in its corporations and have left public places either empty or invaded by mass tourism and with my practice of filming avoiding the gentrification that this invasion brings trying to keep in the periphery but even here disrupting the system by not going to work in the end only working for a real public space that is my ark in which i can show the hospitality and generosity that characterized places before the capitalist system was enforced"
MANUAL: MONTH #149
"telling on how have been often assaulted when filming public places coming to the conclusion that those who assault me have something to hide and describing how in the past people who did not interact with the public were considered threats while now those who are not at work and are out in the public are the actual threat but claiming in the end that only by returning to a natural type of surveillance we can grow a counter-power strong enough to subvert the panopticon power of the system"
MANUAL: MONTH #150
"expressing my concern that the present civilization is too stuck and unable to re-imagine itself so while the whole nature is changin radically big cities are becoming more conservative and entrenched in this sense also reflecting that the only way to counter this global conservatism is by cultivating our mindfulness and redesign the cities of the future within us"
MANUAL: MONTH #151
"discussing my practice of exploring the surrounding as a a ritual to reconnect to it and in turn develop a sort of human consciousness rather than keeping behind glasses in an office and enforce a type of artificial intelligence via a boring a life-taking bureaucratic work but also mentioning that is there is no other option then being encapsulated along with the surroundings we ought to anyway aspire to get back to the real not as adventurous heroes but just subtle like deer in a landscape without any pretentious events but simply with out own human presence"
MANUAL: MONTH #152
"departing from the dutch town in which i ended up living describing how dead it is but once again coming to criticize to begin with mandatory education that disable the possibility for young people to develop their personal cultures and use the commons to perform them spontaneously without all the strict restrictions that particularly in the west and in the netherlands are in place not even allowing a musician to perform on a street without a strict permission and seeing in my filming practice a playful ritual bringing life to a public space that is otherwise constantly filmed by the police to detect anything anomalous and out of the ordinary such as spontaneous life itself as that i have experienced with m children keeping them off school as long as i could"
MANUAL: MONTH #153
"reboosting my polemic against centralization in general and telling on how after becoming more integrated in the social fabric of the dutch village where i ended up living with my family i regularly went for excursions to the villages of the nearby germany and france finding them very desolated and squandered by centuries of war very much victims of central powers to which they have been bent and from which by now they are highly dependent despite the fact that these central powers are once again crumbling and in my opinion it is the periphery once again that has to reinvent an ecological type of society more in symbiosis with itself and the environment"
MANUAL: MONTH #154
"discussing how irrelevant is actually the focus on the tools i use to film but how in fact my operation at large is that of breaking down the wish of the authorities to keep people locked-down experiencing realities on big screes using instead a little screen to be int eh open and reclaiming spaces that are kept empty and regulated and almost as a compensation to it they suddenly get hit by incredibly violent events that can be natural but can also be a sudden war or terrorist act and in order to avoid such great violence inviting people to disobey and go out of their home and office lock-down and re-appropriate themselves with their own rituals the commons so as also evict an apocalyptic destiny"
MANUAL: MONTH #155
"considering my filming of the vanishing point i find in public spaces as mind opening in the sense that thanks to this riutalistic practice of mine i am now able to spot the natural wombs that the environment offer which retain the potential of creating the beautiful places antiquity produced until modernization and central-power set in and imposed its top down ugliness and in this sense considering how detrimental it is for both people and the environment to leave within such artificial structure disabling them from developing their own creative mindfulness and way to enhance their surroundings and make a happier living for all"
MANUAL: MONTH #156
"clarifying the idea that i consider the ultimate exhibition resulting from my project a kind of public space of public spaces giving recovering a sort lost aura but also enabling me to fully grow my nature without the constraint that the centralized system imposes on everyone of us for the sake of keeping us at its service seeing therefore this architecture not as a cage but as a big space i have been determined to fully grow within"
MANUAL: MONTH #157
"introducing my drawing project as more of a quest to keep up human imagination in a time in which the establishment is becoming more and more dogmatic especially on the subject of representation as if a form of neo-puritanism triggering iconoclasticism is prevailing and in time in which the very system is endowed with artificial intelligence which in the long run is enslaving humans to their bureaucratic jobs claiming on one hand that with my drawings i make fun of these humans and on the other i struggle to create a natural intelligence as a human counter-force to the of the establishment"
MANUAL: MONTH #158
"putting not so much focus on the traumas that i have experienced in my youth which might have eventually lead me to drawing as a therapeutic practice but insisting that i draw as also a counter-work to the annihilating and harmful work that is driven by profit alone describing how my type of work is something enriching me and that is a counter form of power to the capitalist and destructive power of the system and that it should be this sort of mindful ecology that the youth should be focusing on"
MANUAL: MONTH #159
"mentioning once again my reluctance to partake in the system as a creative being conceiving the system as a monster stripping life from people and turning them either too dionysian or too apollonian but never able to establish a balance between and thinking about my voluntary subtraction to the system as in fact a way to achieve this balance having the time to take care of my project on one hand but on the other getting completely exposed with no backing up institution but my partner and my children"
MANUAL: MONTH #160
"telling on how my mother and her husband wished for me to become an entrepreneur of some kind and hindered me to pursue my artistic ambitions but how i just pursued them nonetheless and became almost like an homeless person in canada and seeing later in life how any of these homeless persons had the sensibility to drop out of the system but had no way to encourage themselves to build an alternative in the end seeing my life-project as a way in which this alternative can begin to take roots and become more and more powerful in face of power"
MANUAL: MONTH #161
"discussing how i developed a sort of artistic talent of my own not listening to what i was told but just pursuing my own instinct and soon realizing most people find it very hard to confront the content i generate mostly because they are the ones to be too rigid while with my flexibility i am more prone to evolve culture rather than enforce the establishment inviting others in this respect to do the same given that the energy i gather from nurturing my project is an energy i wish to delicate to my community and an energy that erases from within me any worldly ambition"
MANUAL: MONTH #162
"seeing my drawings of ideas not for the final result but for the actual associative mind it was able to generate within me and find this associative mind very relevant in being able to create a syncretism of reality which is otherwise kept dangerously apart by the system which does not allow to make any form of merging but keeps humans and their notions and institutions apart and sterile and worse of all conservative and ready to fight with one another"
MANUAL: MONTH #163
"taking about my drawing as just a representation of my very social and funny character which is quite in contrast instead with my writings that can be quite grumpy at times but possibly because there is very reception in todays society for the type of buffoon-character i am abut either way opting to keep at the bottom of the social pyramid because i believe from here only a new social ecology can emerge seeing more and more also my writings as rather jucy fruits for hope"
MANUAL: MONTH #164
"seeing my drawing practice as brutal and not too processed not because i am lazy or too eclectic to just make it good enough for the audience but because all the perfectionism characterizing society under the yoke of a centralized power only sustain this power and my ideal is that of keeping up my entire humanity and generate something that is more folklorist and come to constitute a more horizontal type of ecology along ith who ever ventures to do the same"
MANUAL: MONTH #165
"still making a point that i am simply trying to represent my imagination and in doing so i can offend a lot of people that i begin to view as dogmatic and radicalize in old but also new forms of fundamentalism telling other people what is good and what is bad and in this respect inviting the youth to break free from all such dogmas and begin to think with their own brain breaking boundaries rather than demanding more because they are born within them"
MANUAL: MONTH #166
"reiterating the fact that culture today is but an instrument of power as it was in a stalinist regime and that i rather keep in a zhivago-like cabin cultivating my poetry without attempting to get famous because thie would not only compromise my production but also y intimate relationship with my community and its surrounding i think i put back a live right because through my practice i give meaning to what ancient chinese people called the ten thousand things and in this respect inviting others to do the same so as to divert the catastrophic struggle for power continuously fabricated via the mass-media"
MANUAL: MONTH #167
"justifying my at times quite aggressive way of manifesting my ideas both in writings and drawings saying that in fact i as well as the majority of humanity live in a state of imposed aggression in which all our small communal living of the past have been re-engineered to be part of a central power system causing much environmental destruction both on the small scale with silly and unnecessary middle-class behaviors but also on the big scale with inevitable wars and environmental disasters finding it important then to recreate my autonomy through my art and be openly cynical"
MANUAL: MONTH #168
"making a last essay about my drawing work talking about how visitors inside the cathedral-like memory theater should flow inside it and let the content flow to them and in this respect also going more in details in criticizing these artists that instead specialize in one single idea and get fixated with it as farmers with their monocultures which can be more rewarding but are based on competition and require much fertilizers and enforce the system and its predatory nature in this respect coming to conclude that my cathedral is more of pirate ship seeking a colony where to give birth to a stateless ecology"
MANUAL: MONTH #169
"introducing my work in which i daily grade the air quality i experience and also introducing my general experience with pollution at first growing up in a pristine village in the alps being forced to resettle in the heart of what used to be one of the main industrial hubs in the world also describing how i managed to escape from there and intuitively in the end making it up to scandinavia prior it turned capitalistic making me in the end move back to the alps just as they began to rewild"
MANUAL: MONTH #170
"talking about the fact that not only i assess the pollution i inhale that is caused by others but i also assess the very pollution i generate in the attempt of making an ecology back in nature and seeing this attempt as necessary to both have part of my mountain property to on one hand turn fully primordial but also within this primordiality carve a spot where to host my humanity and considering this spot essential in the creation of an ecology that does not exclude humans but make them a driving force"
MANUAL: MONTH #171
"presenting my life-dilemma aspiring to make it back to the wilderness but being stuck in the very civilized netherlands and all its absurd progressiveness finding only the fact that i am witnessing it of relevance and proposing my approach of anchoring oneself to the wilderness as helpful to them who are also captives of civilization and its suicidal tendency"
MANUAL: MONTH #172
"criticizing technology not so much on the basis of whether or not it pollutes but on the basis of it breaking up the social fabric of human collaboration and solidarity making individuals not in the need of others discussing how thanks to my project that seem to be very individualistic i in fact pushed myself so much to the bottom of the social pyramid that i conceived the need to grow a more ecological life with others willing to merge with nature to such a degree without constantly aspiring to make it up in rank"
MANUAL: MONTH #173
"criticizing technology not so much on the basis of whether or not it pollutes but on the basis of it breaking up the social fabric of human collaboration and solidarity making individuals not in the need of others discussing how thanks to my project that seem to be very individualistic i in fact pushed myself so much to the bottom of the social pyramid that i conceived the need to grow a more ecological life with others willing to merge with nature to such a degree without constantly aspiring to make it up in rank"
MANUAL: MONTH #174
"openly declaring myself as a non-environmentalist and going in detail how the big political union in which i ended up living in has created a whole new set of divides and finding more important to try to disrupt these divides not complying with such a giant megamachine buying becoming a clerk in one of its departments and buying myself an electric car but buying myself an old van to go the opposite way away from the center of power smuggling cultural content to the periphery where life could be born again without being hit by the very catastrophe that the center of power will unleash on itself"
MANUAL: MONTH #175
"considering the role of the artist as who is brave enough to show that life off the system is possible and certainly who not keep within the system and just grows frustrated about it mentioning how in opposition to all environmental policies artists ought to really get their furnaces going and make use of all skill and materials to build the lifeboat within the titanic power-structure in which humanity is relegated rather than conforming to it and have trust in its ruling class”"
MANUAL: MONTH #176
"reasoning how what i find suffocating is not an overcrowded world but the way power concentrate people into its centers creating much unbalance and really forcing beginning with education to have people dependent from such power considering in the end how my approach of relating to the environment i have access to it is on the other hand generating a bottom up type of power that brings life instead of suffocating it"
MANUAL: MONTH #177
"speculating on the fact that maybe because agricultural community are dying out there is more wilderness especially in the more hostile places like the alps where the ark is located and that in this wilderness humans could develop their own new modality to relate to it but also coming to the conclusion that the majority who will opt to live in urban dwellings will eventually want to get rid of this wilderness being too overly-scared about its beastly side thinking however that i am myself most scared about the civilized folk and there ways of implementing policies that are too artificial and has absolutely no relation to reality in this case opting to establish and cultivate for myself this relation because it does not standardize reality so that a policy can be applied but it in fact exalt it"
MANUAL: MONTH #178
"understanding that is not that i want to pollute but it is the system that hinders me to fully manifest my will with the resources my local environment has to offer me in the end making me pollute but this pollution in that end is that of a giant vehicle that has ultimately brought me back to a natural dimension in which after so much packing it is time to unpack and attempt to recover the direct and mutual relationship with the environment i sought in the first place"
MANUAL: MONTH #179
"talking about how my project has in essence enabled me to know nature in all its variety and that people so much comply to the system of power that they are no longer able to appreciate such wilderness nonetheless pursuing it to the end in all its stages coming to a sort of maturity that can be hard to deal with for these same people who just ended up in the corporate fridges but also pointing that behind this shell of mine there is much sweetness and playfulness and the will to influence others to also grow mature their humanity"
MANUAL: MONTH #180
"seeing how the world is now made up of many safe green-houses on which to take shelter from the very toxic fumes these green-houses themselves are producing and seeing more and more my life-project also as a green-house but really meant to regenerate a human ecology in view of its reconciliation with the environment as more of a lifeboat on board of a spaceship that is the system"