US Department of Art & Technology
PO Box 32265 Washington, DC 20007
http://www.usdept-arttech.net
[email protected]
Press Secretary
For Immediate Release: August 19, 2002
Roberta Breitmore
Named National Chairwoman
USA Exquisite Corpse
of the Experimental Party
Washington, DC - At its Summer Meeting today the members of the
Experimental Party National Committee named Roberta Breitmore the
first National Chairwoman of the USA Exquisite Corpse of the
Experimental Party.
In accepting the position, Ms. Breitmore told EP members, "As
National Chairwoman, I vow to provoke presumptions and constrain the
rational."
Lynn Hershman, longtime associate of the new appointed Chairwoman,
stated, "Ms. Breitmore is a natural, her life experience has
exquisitely groomed her for this position." Hershman serves as Under
Secretary of the Bureau for the Protection & Immunization Against
Mediation & Alienation of the US Department of Art & Technology.
The focus of the Summer Meeting was preparation for the 2004 election
and Ms. Breitmore's remarks reflect a clear focus on the party's
future. As an initiative of the Experimental Party, the USA Exquisite
Corpse is well-positioned to build on the great promise of the
artistic avant-garde by enabling Americans to participate directly -
in their own communities - in creative acts of freedom of association
and the transformational properties of the ceremonies of art. Ms.
Breitmore's agenda, accomplishments and leadership, along with her
commitment to activating the young and alienated, is focused on
driving the Bush Men out of the White House by means of acts of
artistic mediation, appropriation, manifesto and demonstration, love
and politics.
The USA Exquisite Corpse, announced earlier this spring at the Thaw
Festival of Media in Iowa City, Iowa, is a call-to-arms to think and
act anew, to develop techniques of surprise and methodologies of the
fantastic, to enliven the Experimental Party at the grassroots level
with a purpose and a cause greater than our individual lives. The USA
Exquisite Corpse is intended to take us in exciting new directions
where we have not gone before, issuing oracular truths and the most
radically liberating critique of reason. As the President leads us
down the path of destruction with his obsessive death-wish for our
nation and the world, we have the responsibility of transforming
ourselves into what we can be and what we need to be, to insure a
future.
Ms. Breitmore outlined three major priorities for her chairmanship of
the volunteer-based USA Exquisite Corpse: engage citizens directly in
celebrating the universal spirit of collective expression; individual
empowerment through dynamic interaction between the viewer and the
artwork; the use of technology to illuminate the cultural process
through which icon and illusion become the substance of truth.
Ms. Breitmore, who has long explored issues of identity and
alienation in her personal and cultural investigation, stated that as
Chairwoman of the USA Exquisite Corpse, she would continue to support
the construction of "multiple identities that can continually change
their manifestations and adapt to new conditions."
Randall M. Packer, Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
and Chairman of the National Committee of the Experimental Party,
provided the following remarks: "Ms. Breitmore is exactly what the
Experimental Party needs right now. She is our response to the
reality of a post-apocalyptic 21st century, in which we must fuel the
momentum against anachronistic tendencies, the corporatization of
media, and the threat of homeland insecurity resulting from corrupt
politicians and greedy CEO's. Roberta Breitmore stands for greater
integrity, concern for the resonant nuances of alienation, mystical
insight gained through personal experience, and the free expression
of the individual to reveal the basic truth of character with which
to analyze culture - those values that are essential to our survival
in these times of extraordinary crisis."
For additional information, visit: http://experimentalparty.org/USAcorpse/
or contact Roberta Breitmore: [email protected]
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Roberta Breitmore
National Chairwoman of the USA Exquisite Corpse
[email protected]
Roberta Breitmore was recently appointed to serve as National
Chairwoman of the USA Exquisite Corpse of the Experimental Party. Ms.
Breitmore's evolution from temporal victim to eternal victor to
political crusader was intended as an ascetic conversion that
transcended cultural values in an increasingly technological society.
She hopes to engage the public in the challenging issues that face us
today.
The Experimental Party
http://www.experimentalparty.org
The Experimental Party is a new artist-based political party,
heralding a new era for the nation - the "party of virtualization" -
to be built on the inherent strength of the artists' message. The US
Department of Art & Technology has formed the Experimental Party in
order to activate citizens across the country in its effort to bring
the artists' message to center stage of the political process.
'Representation Through Virtualization' is the major political thrust
of the Experimental Party, it is the driving force.
The USA Exquisite Corpse
http://experimentalparty.org/USAcorpse/
The USA Exquisite Corpse will promote a culture intended to free
words and images from the constraints of rational and discursive
order. It will work with key service agencies in government and the
non-profit sector to provide incentives and new opportunities to
develop techniques of surprise and methodologies of the fantastic.
The USA Exquisite Corpse will draw on help from Americans of all ages
and of every background, it is an integrated citizen service
initiative - and the US Department of Art & Technology believes it
can and will do great good.
The US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdept-arttech.net
The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States
principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend
aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real
action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of
all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity
from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere.
Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
[email protected]
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