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Monday, November 20, 2006
I don't like religion and therefore I don't like art - I'M NOT SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO EVEN THINK ABOUT EITHER OF THEM, IT'S ALL BOLLOCKS - WHY SHOULD I CARE - WHO GAVE ME THE RIGHT TO THINK ABOUT THE MEANING OF LIFE.
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I think jeremy deller thinks he is an iconoclast - first of all it's been done before mate and better - just cause you're not overtly political don't mean shit, you're still political cause you are making art and art is saying something and saying something is political. You are just a trendy version of someone else that might not even exist but the thought has existed before you a million times in a million people. The fact that you enter the turner prize and say it, makes you an idiot beyond comprehension. It makes what you say (and far more importantly what has been thought a million times before) a load of bollocks laughing stock thing. Which isn't fair because we need it, you've let it all been bought up and commodified - you've let the idea get bought up, now it's useless. I know you, at this stage your gonna click away from this webpage thinking bloody commie underground twat (you maybe right, i don't even know anymore) but I think you're wrong - I don't want to pretend anymore - I'm a capitalist, you are a capitalist lets just accept it. The commies are capitalist, except the thick ones that actually went along with it all. All anti-capitalism is, is being fed up about parking tickets - it equates to the same thing. I'm annoyed cause mcdonalds does this blablabla. Some guy over there is dieing of something - I care, I do actually care about people in africa dieing of something it upsets me that I've got all this stuff they've got nothing and they're dieing. it upsets me, but that doesn't make me a commie or a socialist or a anti capitalist. I'M A CAPITALIST PIG WANKER BUT I CARE ABOUT THE AFRICANS and shit. I CAN"T HELP BEING A CAPITALIST PIG WANKER.
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Everyone is trying to be big and clever - even the ones who say : I'm not trying to be big and clever.
Everyone loves what they produce.
Everyone hates what everyone else produces.
Unless they use the fact that they like what other people produce to define they're own identity in which case they are produce they're own thing they curate their own thing they produce it, they love what they produce.
Everyone should just produce their own things. ¶ 3:16 AM 0 comments
Everyone loves what they produce.
Everyone hates what everyone else produces.
Unless they use the fact that they like what other people produce to define they're own identity in which case they are produce they're own thing they curate their own thing they produce it, they love what they produce.
Everyone should just produce their own things. ¶ 3:16 AM 0 comments
Everyone is trying to be big and clever - even the ones who say : I'm not trying to be big and clever.
Everyone loves what they produce.
Everyone hates what everyone else produces.
Unless they use the fact that they like what other people produce to define they're own identity in which case they are produce they're own thing they curate their own thing they produce it, they love what they produce.
Everyone should just produce their own things. ¶ 3:16 AM 0 comments
Everyone loves what they produce.
Everyone hates what everyone else produces.
Unless they use the fact that they like what other people produce to define they're own identity in which case they are produce they're own thing they curate their own thing they produce it, they love what they produce.
Everyone should just produce their own things. ¶ 3:16 AM 0 comments
I like bananas but I don't like melons - does that make me gay.
I hate post-modernists cause they're just bullshit artists - stop running away there is no use. ¶ 3:13 AM 0 comments
I hate post-modernists cause they're just bullshit artists - stop running away there is no use. ¶ 3:13 AM 0 comments
I don't want to be an artist - but there is too much baggage involved in being anything else.
We had this guy do a project at my uni (I won't name names). He said that he wasn't an artist - he was a visual practitioner - the word artist (he said) had too much baggage whereas visual practitioner didn't.
If you agree with him you are an idiot - or am I a capitalist pig for saying that. ¶ 3:10 AM 0 comments
We had this guy do a project at my uni (I won't name names). He said that he wasn't an artist - he was a visual practitioner - the word artist (he said) had too much baggage whereas visual practitioner didn't.
If you agree with him you are an idiot - or am I a capitalist pig for saying that. ¶ 3:10 AM 0 comments
Art is the only religion still taken seriously - and it is the most ridiculous one (nearly).
May be I should become an architect. bitchin' loads of money. ¶ 3:08 AM 0 comments
May be I should become an architect. bitchin' loads of money. ¶ 3:08 AM 0 comments
Multiples are shit, but mass production is good. At least we won't be hypocrits.
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Maybe we all just revolt. Grass is always greener.
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The Reason Ronald Reagan Got into Power was the hippies.
I swear it is true, I saw a documentary that explained how he got into power. It said that he appealed to all these hippies that didn't want the state breathing down their backs.
Shit, those thick americans again. ¶ 3:03 AM 0 comments
Shit, those thick americans again. ¶ 3:03 AM 0 comments
I don't want to be an artist.
Its shit being an artist - it doesn't mean anything - your the biggest puppet of the system.
We're (artists) the biggest puppets of the system because we actually believe that we are not puppets of the system - how ridiculous is that. Everyone is a puppet of the system.
No one loves art, least of all me.
Artists loves success and praise - they're all the same: stock brokers, doctors, artists.
Maybe I should leave doctors out at least they save our lives when we need them to - after all i don't want to die: i have fun some of the time.
artists are arseholes because they actually believe they have something to say - at least everyone else realises that they've been told what to say and they just say it.
We as artists, try so fucking hard to say something that no one else has ever said, and then we realise that in fact its pointless because its all been said. There's a guy sitting there waiting for us to say something no one else has said and as soon as we do he turns us iinto a commodity - You can't say anything about anything that REALLY matters because they will just turn that into a commodity and it won't mean anything.
IS THAT WHY KURT COBAIN COMMITTED SUICIDE!!!!!! ¶ 2:51 AM 0 comments
Its shit being an artist - it doesn't mean anything - your the biggest puppet of the system.
We're (artists) the biggest puppets of the system because we actually believe that we are not puppets of the system - how ridiculous is that. Everyone is a puppet of the system.
No one loves art, least of all me.
Artists loves success and praise - they're all the same: stock brokers, doctors, artists.
Maybe I should leave doctors out at least they save our lives when we need them to - after all i don't want to die: i have fun some of the time.
artists are arseholes because they actually believe they have something to say - at least everyone else realises that they've been told what to say and they just say it.
We as artists, try so fucking hard to say something that no one else has ever said, and then we realise that in fact its pointless because its all been said. There's a guy sitting there waiting for us to say something no one else has said and as soon as we do he turns us iinto a commodity - You can't say anything about anything that REALLY matters because they will just turn that into a commodity and it won't mean anything.
IS THAT WHY KURT COBAIN COMMITTED SUICIDE!!!!!! ¶ 2:51 AM 0 comments
Does the existing system exists, are we all just individuals pursuing what individual humans tend to pursue.
Is this the system where there is no system.
hmmmm. I just don't know anymore. ¶ 2:50 AM 0 comments
Is this the system where there is no system.
hmmmm. I just don't know anymore. ¶ 2:50 AM 0 comments
Even Marcel Duchamp admits that he is no longer an iconoclast.
Is it possible to be an iconoclast, does everything end up being concumed by the exiting system. ¶ 2:49 AM 0 comments
Is it possible to be an iconoclast, does everything end up being concumed by the exiting system. ¶ 2:49 AM 0 comments
I have, and other people have - misunderstood my work to be about 'issues' concerned with the third world etc. or about poverty. It is true that I am concerned to some extent with this. However I think now that this is just the signal to my overiding interest - I'm not sure what this is though.
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Actually I'm going to come back to work that I've done in the past 2 months or so:
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I want to walk around tate britain/national gallery/tate modern/hayward/cork street etc. clutching obsessively an african mask. I will have to dress as a tourist - preferably american.
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Then I want to broadcast it on 'you tube' and then re-record it with a video camera to document it. I will ask a random a person as possible (without getting my camera nicked) to film the actual event/performance/happening/defecation/thing.
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'Thing' is probably the best way to describe anything that I have done. ¶ 2:26 AM 0 comments
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Then I want to broadcast it on 'you tube' and then re-record it with a video camera to document it. I will ask a random a person as possible (without getting my camera nicked) to film the actual event/performance/happening/defecation/thing.
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'Thing' is probably the best way to describe anything that I have done. ¶ 2:26 AM 0 comments
I have been reading the essays which are in the front of the book 3 - infinity : new multiple art, which is published by the arts council of Great Britain in 1970.
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I want to stop destroying everything that I do.
I don't want to create multiples though.
The essays in front of this book:::::::
firstly make a mockery of multiples
secondly make a mockery of art
thirdly make it impossible to address either problem
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I've got a big ego or at least am quite ambitious, and so , fuck you JANET DALEY, KARL GERSTNER, REYNER BANHAM, JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, ANTHONY WEDGWOOD BENN and JOHN BERGER.
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I've met Anthony Wedgwood Benn - Tony Benn - I asked him whether politics was just this thing controlled by the media and wouldn't it be more important to elect the people that were in charge of the mass media or at least hold them to account. He didn't seem very interested in my question - I was 17 at the time. ¶ 1:37 AM 0 comments
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I want to stop destroying everything that I do.
I don't want to create multiples though.
The essays in front of this book:::::::
firstly make a mockery of multiples
secondly make a mockery of art
thirdly make it impossible to address either problem
??????????? HOWEVER ??????????????
I've got a big ego or at least am quite ambitious, and so , fuck you JANET DALEY, KARL GERSTNER, REYNER BANHAM, JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, ANTHONY WEDGWOOD BENN and JOHN BERGER.
??????????? AN ASIDE ??????????????
I've met Anthony Wedgwood Benn - Tony Benn - I asked him whether politics was just this thing controlled by the media and wouldn't it be more important to elect the people that were in charge of the mass media or at least hold them to account. He didn't seem very interested in my question - I was 17 at the time. ¶ 1:37 AM 0 comments
First of all I have to make it clear that I haven't added anything to this blog for a number of months. I have decided now to begin again to record and document things that I do using this blog. There is a gap which I cannot be bothered to fill which is probably very important but I can't go backwards now. Also, this blog's remit now covers more than just a particular module of my course, it will encompass everything I do and think about which I feel is significant to the fact that I call myself an artist.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006
I want to come back to Guy Debord; because more than any other figure I have talked about I think he is important to my interests.
The idea of 'the suppression of art', that like the Dadaists', the Situationists were concerned with, is important to an understanding of the relationship of politics and art. The Situationists were against the categorization of art and culture as separate activities from society, preferring instead to include them in everyday life. They saw this categorization as another expression of capitalism and the market. The Artist and The Audience can be seen as The Producer and The Consumer. Fundamentally the Situationists were against work - they saw work as a barrier restricting the natural and instinctive creativity of people. Everybody should be creative, everyone can create art.
There are elements to the Situationists aims that ring true and others that do not. I agree that the categorization of art and culture as separate to society is an expression of capitalism - art and culture can exist happily within society. Taking the same forms and being created from the same means of production as any other 'thing'. An art work is political simply because it exists within society, no attempt should be made to avoid this. The concept of the 'original' is to keep it separate from society. With the concept of the 'original' there is the baggage of the spiritual, religious object of divine importance.
I am unsure about the Situationists claim that everyone is instinctively creative and that work inhibits creativity. But haven't yet come to my own conclusion about this. ¶ 3:37 AM 2 comments
The idea of 'the suppression of art', that like the Dadaists', the Situationists were concerned with, is important to an understanding of the relationship of politics and art. The Situationists were against the categorization of art and culture as separate activities from society, preferring instead to include them in everyday life. They saw this categorization as another expression of capitalism and the market. The Artist and The Audience can be seen as The Producer and The Consumer. Fundamentally the Situationists were against work - they saw work as a barrier restricting the natural and instinctive creativity of people. Everybody should be creative, everyone can create art.
There are elements to the Situationists aims that ring true and others that do not. I agree that the categorization of art and culture as separate to society is an expression of capitalism - art and culture can exist happily within society. Taking the same forms and being created from the same means of production as any other 'thing'. An art work is political simply because it exists within society, no attempt should be made to avoid this. The concept of the 'original' is to keep it separate from society. With the concept of the 'original' there is the baggage of the spiritual, religious object of divine importance.
I am unsure about the Situationists claim that everyone is instinctively creative and that work inhibits creativity. But haven't yet come to my own conclusion about this. ¶ 3:37 AM 2 comments
I am thinking too simplistically about a mass produced work of art.
I am falling into the capitalist trap of a concept of the 'original'. It is possible to not have an original. Mass production becomes the mode in which the art is made, it becomes the medium, it is not separate from the medium or additional to it, it is the medium. ¶ 1:49 AM 0 comments
I am falling into the capitalist trap of a concept of the 'original'. It is possible to not have an original. Mass production becomes the mode in which the art is made, it becomes the medium, it is not separate from the medium or additional to it, it is the medium. ¶ 1:49 AM 0 comments
There is a sense that a mass produced object has an ideology. In essence it is an ideal, it has an original which is chosen and then replicated.
If the object is an ideal - possesses an ideology. It cannot as a material (in a sculptural sense) represent a dystopia. ¶ 1:46 AM 0 comments
If the object is an ideal - possesses an ideology. It cannot as a material (in a sculptural sense) represent a dystopia. ¶ 1:46 AM 0 comments
