2. Challenge all forms of authority with an open and critical mind.
3. Make your art relevant to the world, not just the art world.
4. Discuss politics and culture daily with friends and colleagues.
5. Distrust mainstream media. Go out of your way to remain informed.
6. Practice intelligent skepticism. Question simplistic formulas, easy narratives, dogmatic solutions and self righteous positions.
7. Travel to other countries for extended periods of time.
8. Learn other languages, especially those that will help you communicate with your surrounding 'others.' We must all be fluent in at least 3 languages.
9. Don't be a purist. A 'performance purist' is a contradiction in terms. Challenge yourself to reinvent your practice on an ongoing basis.
10. Be an 'outsider/insider,' a temporary member of multiple communities. Artists need to be everywhere: in the media, in academia, in the major institutions as well as the community based ones. We also need to be in the streets.
11. Devote equal energy to work and play.
12. Experiment with your identity and sexuality. Add a performative dimension to your daily life.
13. Practice responsible hedonism. Re-vindicate the sacred right to party and fight puritanism.
14. Be humbly accessible to others. Share your knowledge and connections with others. Support your peers. See their work, write about it, reference it. Collaborate. Don't be selfish.
15. Deliver critiques to your fellow artists gently but deliberately. Expect the same in return.
16. Don't take yourself too seriously.
17. Don't be a princess or a mindless bohemian.
- Guilermo Gomez-Pena, Excercises for Rebel Artists & Radical Performance Pedagogy, 2011
