Monday, September 12, 2005

Pornoheftist movement - The origins reviewed

The origins of the Pornoheftist movement can be traced to the founding of the band in Frankfurt in 2002. Sif Dishes, Vink Sperber and Fisz Dipn started Pornoheft and in a matter of days, they had assembled the core of the Pornoheftist movement. Although a major point of Pornoheft is that is a not supposed to be a movement, several of the artists released manifestos, the most significant being 'The First Pornoheft Manifesto' by Fisz Dipn released on October 24, 2001. In his manifesto, Dipn professes the philosophy of Pornoheft which consists of three major points, "1. Pornoheft is international in perspective and seeks to bridge differences, 2. Pornoheft is antagonistic toward established society in the modern tradition of criticism, and 3. Pornoheft is a new tendency in performance that seeks to change conventional attitudes and practices in aesthetics, society, and morality."
"Pornoheft is a state of mind... Pornoheft is artistic free thinking... Pornoheft gives itself to nothing... ." So is Pornoheft defined by Sif Dishes. This is not to say that Pornoheft is definable, for it was one of the primary goals of Pornoheft to avoid the labeling and legitimizing of the establishment. Early on in the development of the band, Vink Sperber made it quite clear, "How can one get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, Europeanized, enervated? By running Pornoheft..."

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