Weird dancing in allnight computer banking lobbies.
Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earthworks as bizarre alien
artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave
Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy. Pick someone at
random & convince them they're the heir to an enormous, useless & amazing
fortune--say 5000 sq. miles of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an
orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical mss. Later they will come to
realize that for a few moments they believed in something extraordinary, & will
perhaps be driven as a result to seek out some more intense mode of existence.
Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have
experienced a revelation or had a particularly fulfilling sexual experience,
etc.
Go naked for a sign.
Organize a strike in your school or workplace on
the grounds that it does not satisfy your need for indolence & spiritual
beauty.
Graffiti-art loaned some grace to ugly subways & rigid public
monuments--PT-art can also be created for public places: poems scrawled in
courthouse lavatories, small fetishes abandoned in parks & restaurants, xerox-art
under windshield-wipers of parked cars, Big Character Slogans pasted on
playground walls, anonymous letters mailed to random or chosen recipients
(mailfraud), pirate radio transmissions, wet cement...
The audience reaction
of aesthetic-shock produced by PT ought to be at least as strong as the emotion
of terror--powerful disgust, sexual arousal, superstitious awe, sudden intuitive
breakthrough, dada-esque angst--no matter whether the PT is aimed at one person
or many, no matter whether it is "signed" or anonymous, if it does not change
someone's life (aside from the artist) it fails.
PT is an act in a Theater of
Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of seats, no tickets & no walls. In order to
work at all PT must categorically be divorced from all conventional structures
for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerilla
Situationist tactics of street theater are perhaps too well-known & expected
now.
An exquisite seduction carried out not only in the cause of mutual
satisfaction but also as a conscious act in a deliberately beautiful life--may be
the ultimate PT. The PTerrorist behaves like a confidence-trickster whose aim is
not money but CHANGE.
Don't do PT for other artists, do it for people who will
not realize (at least for a few moments) that what you have done is art. Avoid
recognizable art-categories, avoid politics, don't stick around to argue, don't
be sentimental; be ruthless, take risks, vandalize only what must be
defaced, do something children will remember all their lives--but don't be
spontaneous unless the PT Muse has possessed you.
Dress up. Leave a false
name. Be legendary. The best PT is against the law, but don't get caught. Art as
crime; crime as art.