INTERACTING ARTS is one or all of the following: a group of cross-disciplinary
artists, media critics, an activist network, a conspiracy, a brand,
a think-tank and a magazine which is circulated both on the web and in
print. We aim to inspire and activate people into becoming our fellow
creators of fully lived and experienced lives. Our theories are nothing
other than the theories of our real life and of the possibilities experienced
or perceived in it. We strive to coordinate our refusal of existential poverty
through affirmation of creativity, co-operation, solidarity, play and
our blistering desire for freedom.

During a live role-play we construct a new reality together. As children
of a post-modern paradigm we have been taught that “everyone experiences
the world in a different way” and that “no way of looking at the
world is less valuable than any other”. Ergo, if we create a reality, it has
the same value as the “real” reality. The only difference is that we have
the power over our collectively created reality. We can disappear – live
beyond sheepish politicians, invasive corporations, a troubled past, a fatassed
patriarchy and a state monopoly of violence. Together we write
new social protocols, find an aesthetic, develop a rhythm of life and allow
our bodies to become tools for new, interesting ways to interact.

MIDDLE GROUND
Of course it must be possible to find tools for interaction between collective realities and consensus reality. Why not be satisfied with temporary zones? Perhaps this is what we should do, and what we, in a way, are doing. That means we can pause a while, rethink, and start fresh. Another path is to make collective re-interpretations of consensus reality in order to break free from its constraints.

There is nothing to stop us from forming many alternative bubbles which
can cooperate within federative structures. They can communicate and
trade in some fitting manner. Perhaps through potlatch, after all. Imagine
being a vagabond of realities – what if a biking trip between Stockholm
and the suburb Södertälje could offer as diverse cultural shifts as between
Wall Street and Mecca? Imagine a network of people and groups with
a common approach – the creation of new worlds.