Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke: The 3D Additivist Manifesto, 2015

On view 1 – 31 May 2016

Almost 100 years after its publication Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke are updating the Futurist Manifesto (1909) by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in a dark but appropriate way.

„Derived from petrochemicals boiled into being from the black oil of a trillion ancient bacterioles, the plastic used in 3D Additive manufacturing is a metaphor before it has even been layered into shape. Its potential belies the complications of its history: that matter is the sum and prolongation of our ancestry; that creativity is brutal, sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. We declare that the world’s splendour has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of crap, kipple and detritus. A planet crystallised with great plastic tendrils like serpents with pixelated breath …for a revolution that runs on disposable armaments is more desirable than the contents of Edward Snowden’s briefcase; more breathtaking than The United Nations Legislative Series.

There is nothing which our infatuated race would desire to see more than the fertile union between a man and an Analytical Engine. Yet humankind are the antediluvian prototypes of a far vaster Creation. The whole of humankind can be understood as a biological medium, of which synthetic technology is but one modality. Thought and Life both have been thoroughly dispersed on the winds of information. Our power and intelligence do not belong specifically to us, but to all matter. Our technologies are the sex organs of material speculation. Any attempt to understand these occurrences is blocked by our own anthropomorphism. In order to proceed, there-fore, one has to birth posthuman machines, a fantasmagoric and unrepresentable repertoire of actual re-embodiments of the most hybrid kinds.

Additivism will be instrumental in accelerating the emergence and encounter with The Radical Outside.

Additivism can emancipate us.

Additivism will eradicate us.“

(extract from The 3D Additivist Manifesto, 2015)

Morehshin Allahyari, *1985 in Iran, media artist, art activist and, temporarily, a curator, , lives and works since 2007 in the US, studied at the University of Denver, USA, recent grants: Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University 2015, Vilém Flusser Award 2016

Daniel Rourke, *1982 in the UK, philosopher, lives and works in London, and is finishing his PhD on the topic ‘Figuring the Posthuman’ at Goldsmiths, University of London, Vilém Flusser Award 2016