there
is this tension too I think between the protection and insulation that
'art' practices/ performances have, the way they are performances of
money so to speak, , and how when the 'real' public is invited, that is
the poor angry, disillusioned, to 'have a say' what gets said. The
vandalism of public sculpture for example, for an artist as my self, IS
the Fn point. To see the invisible SPEAK. But for most it is a great
tragedy. So in Abramovic's piece, for me there is this strange, but I
would postulate, joy, in the 'realness' of it. Yoko's too. - Tao Wells
Wells Tao Thanks Dick Whyte
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Alan Francais Stuart Shred a Billy Apple.
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Wells Tao I
think it was Schiller who talked of animals playing as a natural
cruelty that the human can not accept and therefore creates pathologies
exactly where we build. I see it online, where the emotions of two year
olds, reign in a kind of free to roam terror, that to me has great
beauty, for it's virtualness. AS if the internet was a nerve system of
an animal we've exterorised, to play, to be cruel.
Alan Francais Stuart MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Alan Francais Stuart “The way towards simplicity is through outrage.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible
A variation, I guess, but exploring the same territory.
― William Golding, Darkness Visible
A variation, I guess, but exploring the same territory.
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Barry Thomas I recall a few weeks/months back with the vandalism of Tiffany Singh's work and then another with the theft of a bike with Paul Forrest
and found myself saying the same idea really... if you put yourself up
in public - expect the very worst... and even that is of value because
it is saying... this is what reaction 'my' work stimulates... and is
therefore a cultural metaphor/mirror.
Wells Tao YEH
BUT the cultural norm for the pose you've descirbed has a default of
'you just don't get it' which f's me off, with the 'artist' hiding
behind their PR machine enjoying the god power. F that.
Erica Duthie We
made a work for Cuba Dupa - lots of prep ground piece - had to struggle
with huge crowds walking over it oblivious (not all of course but
enough) first time I thought - hey I can understand why people encase
their art in glass and big "hands off gold
frames" and place them in culturally exclusive institutions... was a
weird experience.. encouraging people to touch your wall art is very
different to seeing the walk on your art...try to be generous but felt
definate flashes of rage...
Barry Thomas Par
for the proverb Erica... if you do it in public expect the worst. I
mean... with the cabbage patch I deliberately chose that my part would
only be illegally occupying the privately owned site, planting the
cabbages and I said publicly "The rest is up
to wellington..." ie the vandalism as Tao suggests - was designed in
from the outset... and my ownership, care was altered to accept that
whatever came as a result/reaction was part of it and is/was part of the
culture/art.
Erica Duthie yeah
in hindsight we should have factored that but have been strangely naive
- likely because our wall art tape work was so fragile but yet not
destroyed gave us a sense our work was respected and seen...
:)
:)
Erica Duthie Yeah
silly really spose, many of our projects have been about people seeing
and talking to us - and through us the art is an extension so the
connection to the makers and making is high - they are not pieces of
plop art
Barry Thomas I
think your work is brave, clever, dedicated... drunken yobs in festival
mode are kind of like hoping for a swim in the desert nay?
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Hope Williams Food for thought. I appreciate your depth of perception 
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Pete O'Blivion Thicko.
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