I am JADA. JADA is me. JADA is you.
JADA expands and embraces — Selectively, idealistically, and pragmatically.
JADA is universalist, globalized, a 21st century creative movement of togetherness.
JADA learns the rules, masters the rules, and in the end, breaks the rules.
JADA values timelessness, by challenging the trend, by causing meaningful change.
JADA believes in achievement, with a deep sense of purpose and intention.
JADA rejects art for art’s sake, as we are observers of the Human condition, and defenders of our ancient narratives and folklore.
JADA values rigorous studio practice, discipline, and action, for the sake of changing the state of affairs today, and not tomorrow.
JADA respects all Human complexities, our mutual connection, and a strong commitment to Society.
JADA holds a philosophical approach to life, art, and to the artistic exceptionalism.
JADA defends that creatives will design a better tomorrow!
It has become imperative that artists embrace the mission to spark deeper conversations and wonderment with one another and their viewers through the designing of new grand narratives and the stark retelling of the plight of The Other. Metamodernism, a worldview built of a longing for a deeper investigation on the world around and within oneself, is a manifestation of digi-romantic psyches and tendencies in context of an art world left hungry for raw sincerity and emotional authenticity; Modernism and Post-Modernism no longer meet the appetite created by the challenges of the present day. JADA, a movement of resonant thinkers and makers, advances Metamodernism through a manifestation of its ethos in action. This is the JADA ART MOVEMENT MANUSCRIPT.
The JADA Paris Declaration
Today we come together as The JADA Paris Art Movement!
JADA Paris is committed to a discourse dedicated to PURPOSE, as we invest ourselves in the search for deeper meaning within the intellectual and immaterial realms.
JADA Paris reacts against 20th Century’s systemic deconstruction of norms, morals, and institutions, by responding to the demands of the second decade of the 21st Century, with an ever-adaptable and open-source form of structure.
JADA Paris acts with a new kind of sincerity, true to our Digi-Romantic condition, with an earnest desire for mutual connection as we occupy meaningful spaces within society and ourselves.
JADA Paris acts out of necessity, by responding to the pressing demands of the 2020s, as we position ourselves as thinkers and makers within the context of contemporary Parisian society, locally and globally.
JADA Paris upholds a deep belief in Education, as a valuable vehicle capable of imparting our most valuable narratives, shared knowledge, and mutual appreciation for our earned Freedoms.
The JADA Paris Art Movement is a Metamodern collective that believes that art and intellectual endeavors are essential to inform, comment on, and influence all spheres of life, be they social, economic, political, spiritual, or intellectual.
We are JADA Paris!
The undersigned,
Nea Tandini,
Ninon Lacoume
Aurelien Tranchet
JÔNATAS
Dana Blickensderfer
Sam Loetscher
November 16th, 2020
JADA Brazil Declaration
Da melancolia pragmática ao futurismo ingênuo.
As aparentes contradições por trás do niilismo pós-moderno parecem perder o véu diante da sociedade digital caracterizada pelo seu imediatismo e superficialidade.
Estamos no meio de uma pandemia que, noutros tempos, nos traria reações artísticas que seriam compreendias por poucos ou décadas depois.
Contudo, verificamos um fervilhar de ações e reações em todas as esferas da sociedade que nos situa e identifica-nos no meio de tudo.
A experiência brasileira contemporânea não nos distancia do fenômeno “maniqueísta” vivido por quase todo o planeta, embora vivamos o resultado de um projeto de sociedade que começa a ganhar corpo há quase 200 anos com a instituição da primeira e única monarquia da América do Sul e que pragmaticamente institue a manutenção de classes, evidenciado historicamente com as questões de discriminações raciais e de gênero.
O afastamento e a elitização da literatura e artes plásticas classificados como “boa cultura”, furtou a grande parte da sociedade a familiaridade com tais formas de expressão, o que resulta numa sociedade contemporânea pouco afeta e conhecedora do papel da arte como ferramenta de autoconhecimento e emancipação.
O movimento metamodernista será o apogeu de nós mesmos, é o enxergar-nos disruptivamente percebendo a complexidade de sermos múltiplos em nossa singularidade.
Manu Militão
Iasmin Benayon
JÔNATAS
Dana Blickensderfer
16 de Julho, de 2021
This is the DECLARATION OF THE BIRTH OF JADAISM (Mid the Great Pandemic of 2020)
