An
aspirant to Everythingism must be pretty good at five or more
expressive disciplines - pretty good means either earning a living
from the practice of the discipline or being publicly recognized
as a practitioner by regularly performing, exhibiting, publishing
etc. An expressive discipline is any activity that successfully
conveys ideas, experience or emotion.
It
is also desirable that the disciplines be diverse, it doesn't
really count if the candidate is pretty good at five styles of
dance, for instance. Everythingism is the space between supposedly
unrelated processes and activities. I say supposedly because
adjacent things naturally grow connections and this is how knowledge
is created. Every expressive practice nourishes some aspect of
self, and amps up expression in general. Everythingism is a movement
that supports the desire to do it all, because fusion and integration
is an appropriate response to duality and multiplicity.
Dan
Kelly's five or more disciplines include painting - I am selling
my work and exhibiting regularly, music - specifically singing
and percussion for which I earned five bucks in the subway during
my December 2000 visit to NYC, writing - the foundation for most
of my grant funded projects, acting - specifically on stage and
improvisational street performance such as the 1994 performance
of Box, stints of sidewalk chalk and a more recent smattering
of community theater, and finally interactivity - software development
for Storypaint and Perception, and the participatory sculpture
Find the Creator. I might also include my physical practice like
yoga, running or swimming because I am
approaching the performance of a professional athlete, and this
totally supports and supercharges expressive power.
Here
is a short list of what I can do, what I have expertise and experience
with. |