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  • 1969 :: the rationalist' manifest
  • why to work.

    f r e e
    against dualities
    for the love of complexity
    for a durable changing world
    a permanent dynamic humanity
    a world without conventions or prejudices
    a world full of love and development
    in diversity
  • to realise this in visual forms
    to realise this in language
    a language free for all purposes
    with 100100 and more possibilities
    of communication
    try it too
    be free
    f o r   e v e r y o n e
  • TEXT CREDITS
    'the rationalists' manifest' was written on February 10, 1968 for the fiumbalo international festival, modena and published as 'why to work' in Pantabox (1969). Reprinted in (among others) Ta'box n° 2 (Copenhagen 1969), as a pamphlet the rationalist' manifest' by Galerie Riekje Swart : Amsterdam 1970), in the exhibition catalogue herman de vries. random objectivations (Kunsthistorisch Instituut : Amsterdam 1970), in herman de vries : vijf manifesten over taal - en een gedicht = fünf manifeste über sprache - und ein gedicht ... (artists press : bern 1975) and in to be (Stuttgart 1995) 64.