.waiting line theory.

    Growing from the depths of metropolitan Detroit for countless years, Waiting Line Theory was born January 2005 to an art scene bloated and festering in its cliquish elitism.

    At Waiting Line Theory, we believe in art as a communal process.   One that brings together those of us destined to be forgotten by a history whose only desire is to marginalize and reduce us to a squabbling holier-than-thou crowd of naysayers in-fighting our way to oblivion and self inflicted insignificance.

    Art is about picking up a handful of berries and smearing images of the hunt on our cave wall.   Art is who we are when we are where we are.  Art is not the patch on my skull cap as I spin Clicks&Cuts vol.2 at your dimly lit gallery showing.   And above all, for god's sake, art is not about manifestos.   Art is its own manifesto screaming at the top of its asbestos charred lungs; clawing maliciously at the throats chorusing McDonald's slogans as hiphop anthems; burning triumphantly executive summaries of "indie film" styled beer commercials.

    Waiting Line Theory is a hub for artists from the Detroit area who are so so sick of the current state of the local art community.  We're tired of being associated with so much unbecoming of what we feel in our hearts to be the true definition of art.

    At Waiting Line Theory, we believe everyone can make art.   We don't issue pass cards, we merely offer a community wholy dedicated to saving itself and the world through art.   Of course, we are fully aware of the futility of our aims, and in the face of this we can only restate what a wise man once said, while sincerely apologizing for finishing this with someone else's words:

How do you protest a system that coopts and marginalizes almost every unique and original thought that confronts it? And how do you stay silent?" - Dave Douglas