January 7: First Thursday – Art exhibit, comic-zine distribution + Komikaze Vol. 8 book release, circus @ Floating World
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WHO: KOMIKAZE
WHAT: Art exhibit, comic-zine distribution + Komikaze Vol. 8 book release, circus
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 7th, 6-10pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave #101
Little crumbs from the manifesto:
“KOMIKAZE” is a gang of crooks which disturb and provoke the public with their appearance… Our wish is to pluck out the glass eyes of the habit and by our own example show how everybody can see well with thir own eyes. ////Since our aims are brutal and bizarre, we have directed our knife points towards the field of artistic expression in order to save the innocent… …Our actions are various. The act of exhibiting itself is not crucial for a medium in which the reproduction is equal to the original. Today photography, a good photocopy, digital copy and print, speak equally strongly as the original….The point of the story is that everyone is the courier of an important message if they follow their inner wild eye. By this I want to say that the stress is on the process of viewing, not the exhibited objects…
My vision of the future is a constant circulation of comics on the Internet, and they will be printed and pasted inside or outside, according to anybody's needs. In the woods, too, if desired. These will be the real culture factories, an old idea in a new package. It is just a question of time when everyone will realize that to spill ink on paper is an act of freedom.
