Archive for the 'frame' Category

Smiles on Paper

November 30, 2009

On Saturday I presented a new work at the Stanley Picker gallery during the Writing Exhibitions symposium. Here’s an outline of my work, which I called Genuine Smiles:

A sheet of paper is attached to one wall of the gallery, and attached just below it is a long piece of string with a sharpened pencil fixed to the other end. Visitors are invited to hold a pencil and do whatever they need to do to muster a genuine smile. Read the rest of this entry »

MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I AM MAKING ART FOR 15 MINUTES

November 16, 2009

Resonance fm is broadcasting a new audio work of mine this afternoon as part of Digestives, the ongoing art writing radio series from antepress. It’s going to be be aired on today at 4:30pm and repeated Friday 20 November at 7:30pm.

You can listen live by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune in to 104.4fm inside London. Afterwards it will be available to download as a podcast at www.antepress.co.uk/digestives.php.

Genuine Smiling

November 8, 2009

smiles

The Real Experiment

November 4, 2009

Come to Some Arrangement

October 26, 2009

arrangement

STUDIO AND CUBE

October 24, 2009

white-studio

This is our new home. In a complete change of everything, this home consists of a white studio. It means rather than making artwork in a domestic space as I have been for the past few years, I’ll be doing domestic things in an art-making space.

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Proposed Positivity Posters #3

October 13, 2009

hypnosis

THIS

October 11, 2009

THIS

Address labels you can stick to things. I made these a few years ago but stamping ’stamped’ on things reminded me of them. They’re like inside-out frames.

THE PEAR HOLDER IS BACK

October 10, 2009

pear-holder

Some other holders are here.

Nontheatrical Performance

October 8, 2009

Allan Kaprow wrote

“[...] here is the ball park I perceive: an artist can

  1. work within recognizable art modes and present the work in recognizable art contexts (e.g., paintings in galleries; poetry in poetry books; music in concert halls, etc.)
  2. work in unrecognizable, i.e., nonart, modes but present the work in regognizable art contexts (e.g., pizza parlour in a gallery; a telephone book sold as poetry, etc.)
  3. work in recognizable art modes but present the work in nonart contexts (.eg., a “Rembrandt as an ironing board”; a fugue in an air-conditioning duct; a sonnet as a want ad, etc.) Read the rest of this entry »