THE DEFASTENIST PARTY
MANIFESTO

1. We believe that art is a mission demanding complete fanaticism.
2. It is our duty as Defastenists to excavate fully our fetishes, obsessions and desires through material forms of cultural production.
3. We oppose aesthetic dematerialization and are dedicated to the art object, the obsessive generation of which manifests itself in all aspects of Defastenist activity.
4. Our meticulous process of production in any and all media reflects a fundamental faith in the Utopian functions of art.
5. We reject cynicism and disaffection. We are allied to the founding Fathers and Mothers of Modernism and share their faith in progress.
6. Defastenism proposes an art that is all encompassing. Our practice unites the conscious and the unconscious, the private and the public. It is inflected with a nostalgia for the past; it is of the present and for the future.
7. The Defastenist Party and its members assume an auto-propulsive role in the actualisation of personal and professional ambitions, while maintaining complete loyalty to the Party.
8. We aspire to be both an institution and an Establishment. complete with rules and rigour.
9. At all times there exists a physical headquarters from which we conduct our ventures and campaigns.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS/CAMPAIGNS;

Kunstbahnhof(f);

Produced by Gary Farrelly

Distrubuted as pamphlet throughout Paris.

Exhibition Title; PLANS, SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS

Location; Royal Institute of Architects,8 Merrion
Sq.Dublin 2.

Dates; May 8th-May 31st 2008.

Participants;

Detta Allessi
Gary Farrelly
Christoph Kronke
David Turpin
Maurizio Scalera
Swollen Design
Andrzej Wejchert

Curated by Padraic E. Moore 07.

Unreal City (The Gropiusstadt Edition).

Curated by Padraic E.Moore

An Exhibition Without Walls.Edition of 200.

To the people of Dublin,Paris and Berlin.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007 IN DUBLIN AND IN A LIMITED EDITION IN BERLIN AND PARIS

PERMANENT;

THE BUREAU OF GARY FARRELLY , ON PERMANENT DISPLAY AT;

GALERIE W, 44 RUE LEPIC, 75018 PARIS.

Open 7 days .

10:00-20:00

DISPLAY OF OBSESSIVE OBJECTS (Aesthetics of Administration) BY GARY FARRELLY;

CONSTITUTES THE FIRST PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF DEFASTENIST ART IN THE HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT.

INFO: WWW.GARYFARRELLY.BLOGSPOT.COM 

RESIDENCY

Obsessive Artists' Retreat - Japan

OAR - Japan invites applications from obsessive artists of all nationalities over 18 years of age for participation in its 2007-2008 inaugural retreat programme. OAR offers a bucolic retreat for obsessive artists in Japan's inter-culturally historic Kagoshima prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

The retreat is available rent-free to selected obsessive artists working in any medium and features a six-tatami studio space, private balcony, stocked private bar, metropolitan rail access as well as cooking, laundering and bathing facilities and sleeping space for up to three artists. The retreat is run by a resident artists' hostess and patron. Beginners' Japanese classes, life modeling and miscellaneous artists' materials may also be provided on request. Length of stay is subject to the discretion of the OAR council.

Please forward applications/queries to dmodonov@gmail.com or alternatively to OAR - Japan, 302 Arimura Biru, 285-32, Kamitaniguchi-cho, Kagoshima-shi, Nippon.