Once again, Hi there!
There has been for a long time some drive to be creatively active, within a group of my friends and me.
Two of them created the band called "Erosion".
But this was not the end of our longing for creativity.
But mainly all these activities were driven, and possible through and by our friendships.
We never had a uniting concept, besides the band and the meetings, how we should approach our endeavour.
This diversity, bound together by our friendship-culture, which is not to be defined, is our capital, and the challenge to old concepts of creative interaction and collaboration (cooperation).
The only thing, which I want to say, is that I do not want to force us into any concept, or any concept over us. Because it is not possible, and not equal, as well as artificial to our friendships, which never had a concept, besides the very deep friendships.
But still I have the feeling, that for being creative we need a symbol, a representation, a trademark for our creativity. Not for us, but to represent the creative unit we form.
And here comes the concept, and paradox. Because it would be perverse to enforce a group which is so intuitively generated, in the purest form of friendship, that it would be perverse, to present us as a unit, and also to set us in relation to "the others".
So the message would maybe, that we want to tell the others, that we are no group, and do not want to build up that wall between you and us, because then we would force us into a more fixed form.
Thus our group is more a wish, and concept of interaction.
We want to interact as free and creative with you, as we do with each other within our friendship.
I must correct me, because I cannot speak of "us", because I am just one part of it. Thus I want to represent our individualistic party, as a group of friends, that is organised in that type of individualistic (creative) party, and also interacts internally and externally like such.
Inspiration for that idea, gave me the attendance, by me and one of my friends, of the Viennese Zombie Brood, organised by a very creative Viennese group, called monochrom.
Further inspired by that very interesting whole concept of flash mobs, which I now include into the concept of individualistic (creative) party.
For explanation, party is here used in a multiple sense, especially as a celebration. This celebration, is very important, because celebrating what we have by haveing each other, or what we have and can achieve, is far too seldom celebrated, and thus not felt anymore, an all our existance is constructed only on our individuality, it is then not suprising that all of our life is controlled by competition thinking.
Thus it also points out the group, a creative, but very individualistic and even anonym network.
Thus concentrating on you and the proper concentration on your world, not killing your individuality, or the specialness of your friendships, acting within this loosely connected mob, is one main concern. But at the same time, pronouncing the binding excitement, rather than a centre or central concept, like only a concert or better put, music, or a flash mob could provide.
It is something that binds, but doesn't need a body, it is omnipresent, and is the strongest representation of the modern individualistic feeling of togetherness, that is very much provided by networks, especially communities, internet, or even new generations of web 2.0 religious groups, which have no definition or example yet, but they somewhat echo in the dark, just waiting to come into existence.
"Les Assistantes"
