Mutants and Maffidiots
An e-mail interview with Tamás StAuby, the vice-dispatcher of IPUT







Are you still conducting an artists strike, and if so, what is its aim?

IPUT recommended back in 1974 that we abandon everything and start the whole thing again. In 1980 though, we organised the Art Strike in Geneva, and then the Art Hunger Strike in 81 etc. Steward Home and Associates initiated the "Art Strike 1990-93". The IPUT, which has been on strike continually, routinely joined in. At that time, I counted somewhere in the region of 45 Art Strike committees world wide. At the end of 1993, for its part, IPUT extended the strike for an indefinite period. Its aim continued to be the reporting of Genesis Myth 3. 1. 24. Among other justifications, the following also featured: "the consumed forbidden fruit's genetically operated restoration back to the tree in an automised, Subsistance Level Society.

How would it be possible (how was it in 1974) to start art all over again?

IPUT began it again in 1974. On the basis of its myth. And with the Subsistance Level Standard Project (SLSP 1984 W.)

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