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The OBJECT:PARADISE (O:P) Manifesto was written in Prague, Czech Republic in 2020 where it was first drafted by Tyko Say and later edited by the O:P board members at that time, specifically Sandra Pasławska, Jaromír Lelek, and Roksan Mandel.
The objective of the Manifesto is to set the paramaters in which the O:P collective works, functions, and presents itself. All actions, curations, and projects that fall under the O:P name must abide, in full or in part, by the Manifesto’s mantras.
In 2018, OBJECT:PARADISE had its first event, Poetry of Sound, at the Czech Inn in Prague, Czech Republic. The happening would inspire later events that emphasize the connotative forces of language; specifically, performance, sound, and space.
The collective has three equal governing bodies which are reflective of their mission to celebrate language in context: poetics, performance, and sound.
Since its creation, the collective has curated and directed various performances, installations, and multi-media projects in light of their Manifesto, generating a strong following of community members who seek to engage with poetics in a low-brow, accessible, and immersive way.
Follow the collectives work at their website: www.objectparadise.com
The only thing that is constant is change; a single moment can never be replicated again. OBJECT:PARADISE applies this notion to language to celebrate the innate uniqueness of utterances happening in a single time and space specific context.
Because language is always happening for the first time, we aim to release it from its intention and foster a space where it can exist as its implication. To do this, we encourage the language user—producer and receiver, performer and audience—to embrace miscommunication to observe how connotative forces shape shared experience and understanding of the languages before them.
When we erase the restraints of denotation, the super ego of language, we find that we cannot produce poetry, but only receive it as it happens for the first time before us in the objective moment.
What is the objective moment?
Along with sharing a moment in time, comes the space where that time happens. It is often that at poetry readings there is a prescriptive space--meaning that the attendees of the event have prescriptive roles they must fulfil in order for the reading to achieve its intention: the poet stands before an audience (often in a turtleneck), and the audience listens (often with their hands crossed on their knee). If this act is not fulfilled, then one of two reasons are likely given:
In both incidents, language is the enemy. This raises the core question, “is there a perfect poetic language, a language which embodies the correct amount of ambiguity and directness to be deemed poetic verse?”, but the answer is simple if we view language from a social perspective: language is not biological; or from the physics perspective: language is always changing. There is no one best word nor best order of the best words, only social perception and trends that make language knowable or hip.
So if language can’t be objectively qualified as good or bad, then what would make it poetic in the first place? What would send chills down the spine and raise the hairs of our moles? We will argue that meaning is derived from context: time and space. This is clear when we think about our language choices; why is it that we can read the same poem at both a wedding and a funeral? Did the speaker really see two paths diverged in a wood? And what does that choice mean when taking a hand in marriage versus a hand in the casket?
It is only evident that because language relies on context to give it meaning, then poetry must as well. At poetry performances, the audience and the poet--which, according to this argument, we shouldn’t be making such distinctions--share only one thing: that moment, which constitutes time, space, and the actions before them. This time and space specific context creates new forces on what the language once was, and in turn, forces intended denotation into implicated connotation. Language then begins to happen--it exists in the moment--and is always new if we accept, understand, and explore the pragmatics of the utterances before us.
To celebrate a language happening is to open up our senses to everything occurring in the objective moment: sound, action, language, and physical space. Again, the poetry reading at the wedding and at the funeral taste differently.
With some orchestrated performances of sound, action, and language, unorchestrated happenings begin to be highlighted--the man spilling an entire pint on his crotch: is that part of the performance? Of course it is. It must be; it has to be.
It is when everyone who is part of the objective moment begins to ask themselves these questions we can see a true rejection of the “poet” providing meaning, but the moment itself and all of its chaos providing meaning. It is when this happens, we know we have provided a context for the subjective world to be experienced in the objective moment.
OBJECT:PARADISE presents OBJECT:PRAHA III : The Manifesto (2023) now with English subtitles and remastered audio.
The film was captured over 2019 - 2022 and documents the O:P Manifesto which calls for the public sharing of poetry to be an interdisciplinary, contextually-specific action.
The film follows iterations and attempts to manifest the twenty mantras of the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.
Runtime: 24:42
Format: SD (PAL) VHS
Directed by Tyko Say
Produced by OBJECT:PARADISE, z.s.
The objective of the Manifesto is to set the paramaters in which the O:P collective works, functions, and presents itself. All actions, curations, and projects that fall under the O:P name must abide, in full or in part, by the Manifesto’s mantras.
In 2018, OBJECT:PARADISE had its first event, Poetry of Sound, at the Czech Inn in Prague, Czech Republic. The happening would inspire later events that emphasize the connotative forces of language; specifically, performance, sound, and space.
The collective has three equal governing bodies which are reflective of their mission to celebrate language in context: poetics, performance, and sound.
Since its creation, the collective has curated and directed various performances, installations, and multi-media projects in light of their Manifesto, generating a strong following of community members who seek to engage with poetics in a low-brow, accessible, and immersive way.
Follow the collectives work at their website: www.objectparadise.com
Read the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto below:
The only thing that is constant is change; a single moment can never be replicated again. OBJECT:PARADISE applies this notion to language to celebrate the innate uniqueness of utterances happening in a single time and space specific context.
Because language is always happening for the first time, we aim to release it from its intention and foster a space where it can exist as its implication. To do this, we encourage the language user—producer and receiver, performer and audience—to embrace miscommunication to observe how connotative forces shape shared experience and understanding of the languages before them.
When we erase the restraints of denotation, the super ego of language, we find that we cannot produce poetry, but only receive it as it happens for the first time before us in the objective moment.
What is the objective moment?
Along with sharing a moment in time, comes the space where that time happens. It is often that at poetry readings there is a prescriptive space--meaning that the attendees of the event have prescriptive roles they must fulfil in order for the reading to achieve its intention: the poet stands before an audience (often in a turtleneck), and the audience listens (often with their hands crossed on their knee). If this act is not fulfilled, then one of two reasons are likely given:
- The audience does not understand the language of the poet; or
- The poet does not understand the language of the audience.
In both incidents, language is the enemy. This raises the core question, “is there a perfect poetic language, a language which embodies the correct amount of ambiguity and directness to be deemed poetic verse?”, but the answer is simple if we view language from a social perspective: language is not biological; or from the physics perspective: language is always changing. There is no one best word nor best order of the best words, only social perception and trends that make language knowable or hip.
So if language can’t be objectively qualified as good or bad, then what would make it poetic in the first place? What would send chills down the spine and raise the hairs of our moles? We will argue that meaning is derived from context: time and space. This is clear when we think about our language choices; why is it that we can read the same poem at both a wedding and a funeral? Did the speaker really see two paths diverged in a wood? And what does that choice mean when taking a hand in marriage versus a hand in the casket?
It is only evident that because language relies on context to give it meaning, then poetry must as well. At poetry performances, the audience and the poet--which, according to this argument, we shouldn’t be making such distinctions--share only one thing: that moment, which constitutes time, space, and the actions before them. This time and space specific context creates new forces on what the language once was, and in turn, forces intended denotation into implicated connotation. Language then begins to happen--it exists in the moment--and is always new if we accept, understand, and explore the pragmatics of the utterances before us.
How do we celebrate a language happening?
To celebrate a language happening is to open up our senses to everything occurring in the objective moment: sound, action, language, and physical space. Again, the poetry reading at the wedding and at the funeral taste differently.
With some orchestrated performances of sound, action, and language, unorchestrated happenings begin to be highlighted--the man spilling an entire pint on his crotch: is that part of the performance? Of course it is. It must be; it has to be.
It is when everyone who is part of the objective moment begins to ask themselves these questions we can see a true rejection of the “poet” providing meaning, but the moment itself and all of its chaos providing meaning. It is when this happens, we know we have provided a context for the subjective world to be experienced in the objective moment.
︎Manifesto Mantras︎
- OBJECT:PARADISE IS THE INDUCTIVE SEDUCTION OF THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT
- USE THE LANGUAGE THAT THE PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE CREATE IN THAT MOMENT
- CONTEXT IS COTEXT
- MEDIATE THE THOUGHT AND THE BEAT
- EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE PERFORMANCE
- THE AUDIENCE IS THE POET
- DETHRONE, THEN DEMOTE THE POET WHO CAME KNOWING
- ELIMINATE THE EGO
- DEPLATFORM THE STAGE
- ORCHESTRATE THE CHAOS
- LANGUAGE EXISTS ONLY IN A SINGLE MOMENT, THAT MOMENT
- DOWN WITH DENOTATION
- INTERACT THE REACTION
- CELEBRATE THE PARTY THAT LANGUAGE IS
- THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER DOES NOT EXIST
- LET ALL PLANS GO WRONG
- DEMONETIZE LANGUAGE
- DEDOOM THE WRONG NOTES
- EMBRACE MISCOMMUNICATION
- PROMOTE THE CONTEXT FOR THE SUBJECTIVE WORLD TO BE EXPERIENCED IN THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT
See the O:P Manifesto in Action:
OBJECT:PARADISE presents OBJECT:PRAHA III : The Manifesto (2023) now with English subtitles and remastered audio.
The film was captured over 2019 - 2022 and documents the O:P Manifesto which calls for the public sharing of poetry to be an interdisciplinary, contextually-specific action.
The film follows iterations and attempts to manifest the twenty mantras of the OBJECT:PARADISE Manifesto.
Runtime: 24:42
Format: SD (PAL) VHS
Directed by Tyko Say
Produced by OBJECT:PARADISE, z.s.
