DRATER Manifesto
The freedom that defines art is the ideal that strikes at the monstrous body-politic of exploitation and misery. The creative struggle of the artist is the germ of that eternal struggle against the forces of oppression. Art must recognize its own truth. Down with irony, capitalist expressionism, the glorification of banality – still-birth of the complacent acceptance of defeat and boredom. Death to the cynical acceptance of the logic of capitalist truth – the creative power of money. We resist the morbid embrace; the stepping-into-place; the narcosis of fashion. Infected by dreams of a primised land, confronting the falsehood – are we not Drater?