paintings
Revel in an anti-celebrity activity, making tapes seems like the most backward, irrational ambition that’s possible but all the creations and technologies that we rely on day to day have resulted from idiosyncratic and eccentric invention or discovery; behaviour that might easily be classed as 'mental disorder' by modern standards. Peoples mental health will decline if culture is consumed by excess, then it will regress, adopting a warlike mentality. There is a battle with the past, a desire to expand like a force fed animal, swallowing up everything to get fat profits....
Ready made art, this is the idea behind each hand made cassette tape, just as artist Marcel Duchamp proposed in 1915. Every tape represents an altered state, a mass produced commodity customised by hand into something individual, like some fictional droid that forms its own character and consciousness once let loose into the world. These are Tapes of Wrath that take as their theme modes of oppression and its continuous defeat by those who resist control. A relentless vigil that takes in the perspective of the flaneur, who strolls through streets of Blade Runner cool, except its set in Charles...
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art".[1] By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, tilting and signing it, the object became art. As the process involved the least amount of interaction between artist and art, it represented the most extreme form of minimalism up to that time.
Duchamp was not interested in what he called "retinal art" — art that was only visual — and sought other methods of expression. As an ...
the artwork is produced alongside the audio work utilising the same warped perspective on things, oblique, unique like a squeak or a leak in the roof of proof and truth..
using oil paint on a peice of canvas is a reference to a previous age of technology, we take it for granted that the language we use is commonly understood, although there are infinate interpretations we can still follow the thread of things. The meanings we attach to things through this language came into existance a long time before we were around, this legacy is our heritage and if we take it for granted we risk corrupting it..