Magique – guide, manifesto & instructions

Skry: fashion-guide

1. If there is something you want to do, ask yourself when and where you want to act.

2. If scrupulously precise when deciding what you want to do, you will oddly find that you are not alone.

3. The power and command of illusion lies here, and the key to how mind is ruled by matter (plain matter, mirror matter and dark matter).

4. You will then wander in the realms where matter minds and mind matters, and will keep this to yourself because it is fashionable.

5. You will discover that simplicity and extravagance are complementary approaches, that are based on adding and removing.

6. Skry is fashion because it brings an edge to everyday life, and trivialities to an end (so there are no parties, there is always a party).

Un-being: manifesto

1. Existentialists were either atheists or lazy magicians, who discovered that action brought about something different than what minds can imagine.

2. If lazy, they were mainly tired of the surrealist queries into the traces of ruling, fooling, shooting, eating and working in the unconscious (thinking, mistakenly, that the surrealists were concerned with fiction).

3. Today the hierarchy of the ruling, fooling, shooting, eating and working classes has flattened out – either to define different realms in our lives, or to relocate in different parts of the world (mushrooming).

4. In our current situation, the skry fashion therefore is a way of coming apace with the world through a documentary strategy (to pace and lead).

5. Inspired by Sartre’s wayward path from existential philosophy into the realms of kabbalistic wisdom, we follow this groove into contemporary culture.

6. Like magique and mushrooms, this groove is not: it exists.

Un-fair: instructions

1. Select an alias that will define your rule at the SpaceShipEarthSalon – afore hand or from a bowl with token images.

2. Follow that rule as you a select a fair sample of other people at the event whom you must try to fool (your alias is a carnival mask).

3. Bring a digital/disposable camera to the event and shoot pictures to map possible encounters (following Guy Debord).

4. Eat and drink in order to appear to be like everyone else (and divert other people’s attention away from your act).

5. Use this cover to do the magical work you have the unique opportunity to initiate at the SSES (use the fashion-guide above).

6. Select images that encode your magical work to the organisers, and they will be included among the 256 images that will hallow the next Salon Merkavah.

Theodor Barth

(physical anthropologist - propaganda department)