Billy Childish

Hangman Communication 0001

7.7.1997

Crimes of the future: The role of the artist against

conceptualism and the idiocy of ideas.

1. Good taste is fascism. "Either all are special or none."

2. It is the artist's responsibility to smash style.

3. Artistic talent is the only obstacle.

4. We must embrace the unacceptable in all spheres.

5. We use the tough language that only children can

bear.

6. Art is made to impress, but we are not in awe.

7. Artists don't laugh in case the mob should discover

that they are pathetic.

8. Western art has been stupefying its audience into

taking the position of an admiring doormat. We, at

Group Hangman however, intend to wipe our

mud-encrusted boots on the face of conceptual

balderdash.

9. Fashion and its role in art. The artist as social

terrorist or on the pay-roll of the conservatives and

the Saatchi's ?

10. Art can achieve nothing.

11. The negative and bogus posture of being positive.

To like something or 'be positive' has always been

held up as a laudable attribute. We, at Group Hangman

however, believe that it takes consciousness and

intelligence to dislike something. As if being a fan

of some moronical half-wit artist or musician is an

achievement. How often in life have we met 'a fan' who

by their violent devotion to the god-like status of

their chosen infatuation is really only puffing up

their own shabby ego and trying to allude to some vast

expansion of their pathetic brain.

12. The conceptual artist arrives on the scene and

frozen with fear, like some anal retard, is too scared

to transmute their ideas into paint and commence a

string of unacceptably pathetic canvasses and thereby

experience themselves as crap. It is essential for

every artist to paint a succession of unacceptably bad

paintings.

SUMMARY OF COMMUNICATION 0001

People have allowed themselves to be robbed of their

child's right to paint by giving up their power to

communicate to the pathetic professionals. We at Group

Hangman denounce the violence of the so-called

'professionals' and stand firm by the rights and

laudability of the intrepid explorer. In short the

critic without and within must be smashed and trampled

underfoot. Above all else we uphold the individual's

right to remain ignorant.

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