I've seen a ton of "communities" popping up lately, complete with their own tokens and Discord chats and hashtags for posts---and I would like to hypothesize the NEED for the existence of ANOTHER one:
NON-COM-ARTS!!!
Non-compromising...
Non-commercial...
Non-complacent...
I'm suggesting the need for a place where people who are creating punky, personal, raw/rough, not-necessarily-commercially motivated, experimental, creative works, whether cartoons, zines, collages, music, poetry, performance, digital/crypto art, weirdo memes, or any other stuff that you wouldn't necessarily find in a gallery or museum or for sale in a sea-side beach shop, can "get together" and discuss making NON-COM-ART.
I wish I knew how to make a token and start a chat thing and gather like-minded persons together---because I would love to start a coin (for supporting artists of all stripes...and plaids) and a Discord chat and to have meet-ups in Portland, Oregon, every three months or so where we discuss zines and insurrection and cartooning and screen printing techniques and culture jamming and graffiti (followed by drinks at a nightclub that plays GOOD 80's music, like Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League and Eurythmics and The Cure, but NOT Bruce Springsteen or Bon Jovi...)
Communities are GREAT when people are sharing ideas, bouncing off each other's work, responding, inspiring, cross-pollinating, maybe competing a bit and trying to out-do each other (in a non-threatening way...)
My favorite art movements have always been outrageous and (initially) less focused on commercial interests: Dada, Fluxus, Situationists, Mail Art, Beats, Punk, Underground Comics, Subgeniuses, Discordians, early Hip-Hop, Bizarro Lit, and early Zine culture... AND, I could arguably add early BLOG and MEME creators to this list and not feel too self-conscious about it.
These groups integrated a variety of media: literature and maga/zines, music, performance, fashion, philosophy... and they frequently had multiple (sometimes clashing) personalities doing individualistic / iconoclastic work---which sometimes lead to schisms (Surrealism slimed its way out of Dada, and punk splintered into hardcore, new wave, post-punk, ska, and retro-rock styles.) But the ENERGY AND EXCITEMENT that came from these transgressive movements inspired a ton of interesting, culturally significant, massively influential works of art (before being re-absorbed into the commercial machine.)
I'm not against people making money from art or creative work---I'm VERY pro that---but I'm also painfully aware of the fact that SOME people create art and write words that aren't going to be sellable in a traditional marketplace. THESE folks need a place to talk tactics, share idiosyncratic work, and support one another---plus, I'd love having an easy way to FIND weirdo art that has a subversive, punky, outsider, indie, raw, scratchy, disturbing flavor to it!
The NON-COM-ART! All in one place! Am I the only one who thinks this would be nifty???
If not, let me know! Maybe "we" could use #noncomarts as a tag to make it easier to find cool stuff... If someone knows how to make a chat thing, I'd also be interested in sharing influences and personal creations and seeing other folks' work in that format, too.
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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