As such everything done under the banner of Neoism , from writing a poem or letter to being interviewed by a newspaper or magazine is to be considered a performance which in turn forms part of the performance of a movement called Neoism . Of course the performance of a movement called Neoism is simply a cynical play to gain attention for the individual performance pieces which go to make up the performance of Neoism . However the performance of Neoism is no more contrived or unreal than the performance od Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, Situationism or Fluxus. In the performance of Neoism actual performance pieces play an important role because in Neoism we have chosen to perform a late twentieth century movement whose precursors are Situationism and Fluxus , so it logically follows that the artistic substance of Neoism will be performance and text , especially manifesto s, rather than painting which characterizes nineteenth century art movements. In Neoist performance as the performance of Neoism actions should be humorous, with particular emphasis laid on the slapstick, farce and parody.
Neoist performance emphasizes roughness, irregularity and sudden variation.
It is boisterous and because of our belief in relative naturalism and synoptic realism always deadpan. Neoist performance and the performance of Neoism is concerned not with a collection of image but rather with a social relation among people mediated by image s. Neoism is concerned not so much with the creation of myth but the uses to which myth can be put once it has been created. Thus in the performance of Neoism we are more concerned with creating a media representation of ourselves than with what we actually create physically in our performance pieces. We are not so much interested in our imaginative vision as in what we are popularly imagined to be.