Some key visual aids of my own practice and others and influential texts for a presentation I gave to my classmates and lecturers about where my thoughts and creations have taken me since dissertation.
Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation
"retro fascination"
"only nostalgia endlessly accumulates"
Video and Still from One Day in America video installation
Ars Industrialis: International Association of Industrial Policy and Mind Technologies
“It is such a context that the question of care can be posed in a new and political way, not confined to the medical field or the ethical field: the question of care must go to the heart of political economy – and with it, clearly, a new cultural, educational, scientific and industrial political culture capable of taking care of the world. This is why we propose as an axiom of our reflections that – as the first meaning of the verb “economiser” say, and as at bottom each of us knows – to economise means first of all and before anything else to take care.”
McLuhan's and Fiore's The Medium is Massage
Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle
The Spectacle is 'not a collection of images,' but rather 'a social relation between people that is mediated by images.'
Superflex
Superflex stages unconventional artworks that use social intervention as a means of calling attention to such issues as democratization, environmentalism, and consumerism.
SUPERFLEX BIOGAS IN AFRICA
Work made by Consumers with me when working as an Arts and Crafts leader in Upstate New York
Tommy from Aestheticizing the Workplace print series
Pull
Detail from Constants and Variables 2010
'The idea of empowering the viewer - any viewer, independent of his or her origin, culture or education...'
'... what I care about is letting the viewer know that they're what is important...'
Image from Collections Part II
Extracted from: Stephen Willats, Multichannel
Workshop – Practice in the Art Museum,
Control Magazine Issue 16, 2001
Within the institutional reality in which contemporary
art predominately currently exists, a realm of art museums,
art journals, art schools, art collectors etc., there is still
an innate aversion to the agencing of practices in art
that are founded on the complexities of social exchange.
that are founded on the complexities of social exchange.
Thus the ‘art museum’ is represented as a context that
defines a social environment that from the outside is to be
looked up to as a symbol of transmissional authority, and
from the inside operates as a modus operandi for
society’s institutions that is increasingly at odds
with the social processes of exchange that are actually shaping modern daily life.
with the social processes of exchange that are actually shaping modern daily life.
"...Intervening in the fabric of society."
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