ArtistPride Manifesto Calls for Artists to Form a New Civilization

Antonio Barrese has published a manifesto for ArtistPride, a movement that urges artists to abandon traditional political and social engagement and instead pursue 'speciation'—the formation of a new cultural species. Drawing parallels with the LGBT Pride movement, ArtistPride aims to address the identity fragility, marginalization, and lack of recognition faced by artists. The manifesto argues that the art world has been co-opted by power structures, turning art into a commodity and schools into factories of unhappiness. It proposes a collective effort to harness the holistic values of art—energy, knowledge, vision—to design a new world, akin to the Enlightenment's Encyclopédie. The first step is joining the ArtistPride Facebook group.