The artist ScottKing talks to writer JonSavage about King’s new work. 'The Debrist Manifesto' is a ten thousand word “guide book” on art world failure, inaction, popularity, identity, and the pursuit of perfectionism in a world that doesn’t care.
is scathing about the media world. Is that from personal experience or just from observation?
KING: I think it’s scathing about both the media world and the art world, and it comes from personal experience. It’s embittered, but it also attempts to offer a solution . I wrote about these ‘worlds’ because they are the ones that I know, but I think the manifesto is written in such a way that anyone reading it can apply the rules or examples to their own world.
KING: I’d say it’s an “anti what you currently perceive to be success handbook.” Someone else suggested that it could have been called, which I thought was funny, and there is a large element of that. But I think it’s important that I wrote it as a truth— I didn’t set out to write it as an anti-self-help book. Quite the opposite, really. I wrote it as my truth. I didn’t edit it, I just let it pour out, and I wrote the bulk of it in two days .
KING: I know you hate that! I remember you telling me about this years ago, and I copied you. I think it’s important that people in our position, “the self-employed culture worker,” if you will, don’t work for free. I mean, I’m 51 and I still have people trying to convince me that “this new project could be a good portfolio piece,” or, “do it for free and it will look good on your website.” So, I try not to work for free, unless it’s for a charity or something.
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