Welcome to the final Third Friday of the year, and what a great year it has been. From Denver to Denmark. From Athens, Georgia to Athens, Greece and far beyond; the New World Creative has grown exponentially! We would like to take this opportunity to thank every creative and patron who helped make the past year possible.
A very special thanks to Mary Rutelidge of Federal Heights. As the year 2017 draws to a close, we would like to take a moment, not for retrospection on the past year, rather projection of what is to come. We look to 2018 with a sense of purpose and gratitude as we enter into a golden era of artistic innovation, rejuvenation, and reinvention. At this very moment in time we stand on the precipice of a monumental undertaking into the evolution and renewal of ourselves as human beings and the reevaluation and reassertion of ourselves to our vocation as artists. Welcome to the era of R3VOLT! Sierra MatzAlexandria RomeroJim MazzoccoRick AndriolaDavid MacDowellGus Romero IVSteven Lee MatzSteven Johnson Leyba
I am Steven Johnson Leyba and I live to create.
This is a new chapter of my life moving from my book of WATER into my book of FIRE. I'm in R3VOLT. I left the cultural swamplands of Washington state to create further. To create from myself. I am now on the Navajo reservation living in a hogan. Studio Hogan is my new studio. I left my thousand-square foot studio for a dirt floor and a wood stove dwelling on the Continental Divide. I turned my back on living in the art slave systems of cities. I needed to concentrate on creating and turned my back on censorship. I am in R3VOLT. Inner space. A place of my own within myself. R3VOLT is the outrage over the star system of artists that seek validation by ARTWORLD and so called “civilization.” Stepping aside for awhile to gain the electricity from thinking and creating in solitude. As John Trudell said before he died a year ago, “We need a new fusion of new energy” R3VOLT is that energy. It is a RE-CHARGE; A RE-VOLT. I need the voltage and this new energy that comes from creating and blossoms outside of the spectacle. Inner space. A place of my own within myself. R3VOLT is the outrage over the star system of artists that seek validation by ARTWORLD and so called “civilization.” Stepping aside for awhile to gain the electricity from thinking and creating in solitude. I am finishing up my 16th hand made book WATER for my solo exhibit at Dark Arts Emporium in Los Angeles (Cities are once a gain trading posts. No longer centers for creation. Only places to take your goods, purchase goods and then return to your creation station.) It is hard to work on my mixed media pages in the WATER book when it is 10 degrees in the morning. There is the original homemade steel wood stove that was in this hogan. Initially made to keep the sheep and pumpkins warm through the winter. Fire threatens to melt the acrylic on the pages and ignite the book when it is too close to the fire. FIRE also being my next book. Book 17 of which I am starting here and will work on in my travels on the road. When I got to New Mexico over a month ago and made my friend's hogan Studio Hogan there was no WATER and I had to change the wood stove to have a big enough FIRE to stay alive and to create. I am freer here than I was in my live work space among mostly parasites who did not make art but got a slightly discounted rent and called themselves artists. Imagine scientists who all lived next to each other who did not practice science. Perhaps they did a science project years ago in school. Art is a good cover for the non-creative. What I mean by R3VOLT is not a blasphemy against the Corporations that control most of our life. That would make me a believer. I believe they exist. So do I. Multi-National Corporations are the new government and I am the new Pilgrim. A pioneer on the new frontier of my world. R3VOLT is when you are disgusted by the systems of control, whatever they may be. But why be controlled? Why not create? From the heart and not for mere fame and fortune? To start a “revolution” against our corporate masters only feeds the beast just as John Trudell would say. I have been saying it for years as has Trudell and artist Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye P-Orridge “VIVA LA EVOLUTION!” meaning one’s evolution is most important. Why else are you alive? A revolution is like a hamster wheel it goes round and round and the new boss is just as the old boss. “The revolutionary has never won. The revolutionary has always become the state. Because the state has to protect the revolution. This is reality... Life is about EVOLUTION not REVOLUTION” John Trudell 
R3VOLT is not a protest it is a detest. It is one’s personal creation away from what often times destroys the creativity in us. R3VOLT moves us away from the energy prisons. A more personal place to be away from the selfie sticks we shove up each other's asses every second. It is one’s own views and what one thinks and creates not what one believes.
Personally I get tired of the social templets and scripts. I seek to go inside myself to create what I want to see in this world, not what I am told to look at and see. I have stepped out of auto-pilot and I am seeking actual authentic experience not a prescribed virtual reality or a life lived through a celebrity. I want something to show for the time I am alive. Individuality and fame can be a culture trap. Rather than completely dropping out I seek to bow out momentarily to make shit I believe in without the distractions of the spoon feeder validation police and priests of society. I seek to speak of our time and have perspective. One grows tired staring at shadows on the cave walls. It can be revolting. So I live my life in R3VOLT. Right now I type this in my ancient computer on my painting/ bead table. The reservation dust is so fine I can taste it constantly and it is all over these smaller WATER paintings I am working on. It is hard to paint the details when everything is coating everything. Most days I prefer this to the constant bread and circus of social media. The Internet and social media are like cities, they are also a trading post. A good place to bring your goods and get a few but not much is actually created there. The rez dogs are at the open door of Studio Hogan begging. I gave them bag dog food, but they want my canned human food. Right to my left is a White Mountain Apache mug full of black number six glass beads. Several times I have almost drank that. Nearest hospital is almost two hours away. Lots of physical work that needs to be done around here like chopping wood. It is still the wild west. These are the happiest days of my life, perhaps not the easiest but in some ways it is. Very real problems and I am not concerned with so called leaders and their manipulations. I am focusing on what I can truly think and make. I am making a new pattern in my life. I am creating new options from my R3VOLT. When I did my first documentary movie “What is Art?” I asked fellow artists “what is more important the artist or the art?” most said the art but many said both. I think one said the artist. I realized the act of creating was the most important. More important than the artist and the art. Yet I cannot separate any of these things. The act of creating is a R3VOLT. The moment you create you are placing a portion of reality in jeopardy. That is a good thing because creating the same nonsense is the act of making stillborn art. Vital art is fluid. It is life and ritual in motion. Energy flowing. Electromagnetic energy flowing from your body and not a robotic repeat of all the recycler artists of the world reposting and rehashing the hashtags of misplaced meaning. R3VOLT is not a protest it is a detest. It is one’s personal creation away from what often times destroys the creativity in us. R3VOLT moves us away from the energy prisons. A more personal place to be away from the selfie sticks we shove up each other's asses every second. It is one’s own views and what one thinks and creates not what one believes. 
R3VOLT asks more out of us each day. Did you create today? What did you think? I don't believe in believing in anything I believe in action and R3VOLT. Belief is stagnation and repeat. Beliefs constantly change as does life. I prefer change to belief. Creating, thinking and change = R3VOLT. I am in constant R3VOLT. To truly create from oneself is R3VOLT. Life truly being lived is R3VOLT.
RE VOLTING one’s self is FIRE and PASSION. The poet Lorca spoke of DUENDE which is a Spanish word that speaks of the traditions of true passion. Of THE BURN OF BLOOD and the FIRE IN THE BELLY. We are in an age of complainers and victimology. That is the new belief. World culture is often concerned with victimhood, finger pointers, tattle tales and complainers. Who are the doers? Who are the EVOLUTIONARIES? There is a Renaissance in science and technology and many artists are dropping the ball. Where is the art that truly speaks of the spirit of the age? Not how much someone is making, who they are fucking and what their outfit looks like. Quantum Physicists tell us the very nature of reality is being questioned. That excites me. Celebrities don't. Making my art exactly as I choose is an act of R3VOLT. R3VOLT is a Temporary Autonomous Zone. A creation station without societal rules or regulations. It happens when you create. Often times solitary but not always. It can be a cabal of thinkers and creators. Not as an alliance but as accomplices accomplishing something in that Temporary Autonomous Zone. Think of it like a jewel heist. You find your accomplices for the job. Not alliances because alliances can be infiltrated, compromised and may turn on you or turn you in at the new heist. Accomplices are in it for that particular manifestation of creation. Time for me to break the patterns and habits scripted to me. Some are easier to drop than others. Why not put a ripple in the matrix? Throw your wrench into the societal control machine by your creations. Create your way out. Create your way forward. Protests give them validation. Voting for or against gives them your energy. Why not create what you want to see in this world? Why not R3VOLT?
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A great specter is looming over the art world: the specter of Inter|Sekt. For far too long we have watched the artists of our generation turned into a disposable commodity, bought and sold by the galleries, stifled in their expression by the tastes of the art consultants who purchase pieces on behalf of financially minded clients who want a "solid investment".
They have been amalgamated into schools, said schools are a device of gallerists and art historians to divide and conquer the creatives and free thinkers. For we live in a nation which thinks itself to be free yet is not, they expect the same of their artists. Our culture has been raped and plundered by the upper echelon, picked apart and sold by the same greed mongers who claim to be it's patrons. The tool which has most effectively stunted the growth of modern American art in particular is the clever indoctrination of this idea of schools to not only the art student but anyone whom even reads a brief survey of the history of art sees that it is broken up into these categorized schools; the philosophies of these various sects creates conflict, division, and ultimately destruction of the morale and submission to the established order. Thus rendering the creative spirit confused and useless. This helps curb the rebellious spirit of the average citizen outside of the art world in other spheres of society. Art history is a lie and galleries are dens of thieves! Inter|Sekt is not destroying the schools or the galleries, we are simply showing you they were never real, at least not in a world outside of that constructed by academics to sell text books to art students. The reign of the gallerists and art consultants is over when you want it to be. From the ashes of the indoctrinated schools of every form of art shall arise The New World Creative. -Steven Lee Matz- The inter|sekt manifesto
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