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pyramid scheme
Another reminder at the British Art Show that our current, western culture is one of collecting random, possibly needless, objects, is Keith Wilson’s “Ziggurat” which itself is one of many pieces touring the country throughout 2011. A ziggurat of ziggurats, if you like. I had to look up the word “ziggurat” in my iPhone dictionary,… (read more)
Insurrection Inc.
“Culture is capital”. So reads a stray billboard, and a mis-placed poster, and are probably not the only two locations in Liverpool where a Liverpool Biennial visitor would chance upon this logic statement. This simple mathematical equation is ripe for contemporary time. Rarely, if ever, do we think about our own, living culture as capital;… (read more)
Trecartin: Turgid Waters
Ryan Trecartin is a former art student from the Rhode Island School of Design, and makes videos that he claims are scripted. The results prove otherwise, as amateur actors appear in various forms of drag and costume, seemingly having a ball slinging phrases about that don’t pretend to make any sense. The direction is a… (read more)
hello down there
Imagine you’re floating in a narrow hole in the ground, a mile deep in the earth’s crust. It’s useless to scream because nobody would hear you. And there you are, for the rest of your very quiet and still life, getting to know your new neighbor, mother earth. It wouldn’t be a comfortable way to… (read more)
art for one
Attention all artists: stop the inconsequential discussion with yourselves in the secluded and singular vacuum World Of One. The reason nobody understands what you’re doing is very simple to explain: your work doesn’t mean anything to anyone but you. This is not public art. It’s not even contextual art. It’s Art for One. I hope… (read more)