Stuckism, BlackIvory and Socialism are inseparable. So alike, but unlike Socialism, where millions extra people die as soon as it leaves the text book, Stuckism and BlackIvory don’t need to function in any worldly sense. The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists are not of your planet. We don’t obey your rules.

I’d probably be a socialist on another planet or a different species, like an ant or a bee. As art’s a planet and species independent of the laws of Earth, I started The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists, and later, BlackIvory. Here on Earth, Stuckism, BlackIvory and Socialism share the same fate despite their wonderful manifestos. Take them into the “real” world and you get, in Stuckism’s case, exhibitions where you’d be forgiven for thinking you were at the RA Summer Show, in BlackIvory’s, video podcasts watched almost exclusively by its participants, and in Socialism’s, carnage. In all three cases, you need everyone to play ball, which never happens. Like the campaign to destroy all nuclear weapons, where all the nice countries destroy theirs and the bad ones don’t. In art, it works. I don’t disagree with a lot of the anti-Stuckist brigade and have blogged similar, but it’s all a Stuckism net positive. I think The Art of War says something along the lines of “The best way to destroy the enemy is to trick them into doing it for you.” Genius. Enough silly talk, here’s some real Stuckism: