Giuseppe Penone

VIDEO

Maurizio Cattelan

WEBSITE

martin creed at the ica, i just have a thing for scottish people

If you're lonely...

Work... this is work. This is hard work. Talking about work is work.
Thinking is work. Words are work. Words are things, shapes. It's hard
to compose them, to put them in any kind of order. Words don't add up.
Numbers add up! Things are everywhere. Everything is something,
everything has something, but not everyone has someone. It's hard to
distinguish between things, to separate things. I'm in a soup of
thoughts, feelings and things, and words. Actually, it's more like a
purée... or thick and stiff, like a paté. I'm in a paté and it's hard
to move. It needs a lot of work to get out of it — or to separate it
and find something in it. Thoughts, thoughts, sometimes I want to stop
them, but it's hard to stop them. It's work. Dealing with thoughts,
that's work.
Thoughts, thoughts, don't come! Stop! Please! When you're going to
sleep and you can't stop thinking, thoughts queueing up, that's when
you need drugs — or a notebook.


I want something to ease the pain. I want to get out of my head.


Smoking used to help. For a long time smoking made my life bearable. I
gave up smoking because I couldn't do it enough. I couldn't smoke
enough. It was never enough. I wanted to smoke all the time, to breathe
in all the time, but I couldn't, not in the shower, not when I was
talking, not when I was eating. I wanted something I could do all the
time. Not smoking, that was something I could do all the time.
I am an addict in search of drugs.


Maybe working is trying, and work — the result of work — is everything
that one tries to do. Trying... looking for excitement, or trying to
handle it and use it to get out of the paté. Trying to do things;
talking. Or maybe testing is a good way of putting it: testing things
out. Testing things out by putting things about, and all the time
trying, hoping to be excited, wanting. Wanting is what makes me work:
excitement, desire for something.


Sometimes people say: 'What the fuck do you think you're doing? That's
not art.'
I say: 'Fuck off, assholes!'


Assholes... they are something to get excited about, something to work
for.
Work is a fight against loneliness, against low self esteem, against
depression, and against staying in bed. Sometimes my self esteem is so
low that I cannot reach it even when I'm feeling down.


I want to be on my own, but I don't want to be alone.


Work is everything, I think. Everything is work. Everything that
involves energy, mental or physical. So... everything, apart from being
dead. Living...


I don't know how anyone can do it.
How can anyone get through it?
I can see why people hide.
I can see why people commit suicide.


If you're lonely,
If you're sad,
If you're lovely,
If you're mad,


Then this is for you.


Text taken from his WEBSITE .

Ed Templeton

Ed Templeton from Iconoclast Editions on Vimeo.

he seams great... tell me more

GABRIEL OROZCO

all images taken from 'Contemporary Art Blog'

So you might have noticed how embarrassingly dyslexic I am. Well this does not stop just with writing, but affecting my working and long term memory, it makes me pretty useless at wanting to have 'interesting'  conversations.. simply cos no-one takes you seriously if you cant remember the name of the artist/photographer/film-maker/author of the piece you are claiming you like so much. And then you try to at least remember what the damn thing is about but the information is just not there. You just know you love them... no use, you are just a douchebag.

Im mentioned this cos one of the pieces I saw today at the Tate seamed to be like what this feels like. It was lines and lines similar to this: a famous artist who's best work was never shown

Anyhow, for this reason is sadly often that I find myself missing out on many exhibitions cos I cant remember I like this artist,  or that I go there and I cant remember what the concept of their work is about, so I kinda miss out on a lot of the joy. 

But in this occasion I was really really waiting for this exhibition, and it was incredible, also to recognise so much of his work and also make sense of it hahah. 

Anyways, sorry if I disappoint you, Im not gonna give you an analysis of the exhibition, Im just gonna tell you that you HAVE to go and see it, cos its gorgeous. I got to see lot of my favourites and also lots new stuff. In fact I am going to go and see it again. 

And I might start a little charity  box: help mara buy a book about Orozco, cos there is at least 4 that I fucking want.

Video Installation, Burning Building that is not really burning...

Found at JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE

LUKE JERRAM

Aaaaaarggggggg this guy is so amazing i'm feeling sick .... eeew eeeew

this has given me a very nice twist to my dissertation subject.... so is very exciting that I can again borrow books from the library!!

Retinal Memory Volume

'Retinal Memory Volume' is an interactive installation that builds sculpture using the biological mechanisms of the viewer's eyesight. During the experience the viewer's eyes both construct, then erode the form.

The patented retinal after-image process can be considered as a form of printing or photography, where the retina replaces the paper or light sensitive film. The object is created from the absence of photopigments in the eye."

Matrix

MATRIX is an interactive installation which uses retinal after-image technology to create virtual light sculpture within the mind of a viewer.
Formed within a new perceptual world, sculptures exist in an altered dream like reality. Created from the absence of photochemicals within the eye, the mechanisms of the viewer’s vision, firstly construct then erode the form.  The work asks how numbers are stored in the mind, where do they exist? How are numbers or units visualised?


Tunnel Vision

The artwork aimed to evoke the imagery experienced in worry and problem solving as he lay in bed at night on the edge of sleep. An atmosphere of the industrial age was created with sound and a beautiful sense of loss was described through music. Trains appeared to move along the length of the disused railway track passing through any visitors present.

"The sculpture is like a solid presence, more real than a memory. It is like an object in a dream, yet your eyes are open."

As the work is formed inside the viewer, documentation of the sculpture is impossible. The work allows people to observe their own eyesight, and asks the question, at which point does perception end and memory begin?

Sculptural and perceptual studies
Fog Forms 2004

Light study - refocusing light off the surface of a butterfly


First Breath

During our lifetime the majority of us experience the same mundane and life changing moments. Whether we're cleaning our teeth, having our haircut or getting married, it's these common experiences that help us to connect with one another. At any given time in each city, there are disconnected individuals and hidden communities living through the same life experience. First Breath reveals and makes visible one of these communities.


Tide

A gravity meter located in the gallery space measures the changing gravitational pull of the moon and sun on the earth. This information is represented as a video projection showing a full 24 hours of altering gravity. The received data is then made to control water levels automatically within each sculptural object. A friction device makes the glass of each sculpture resonate and sing, like rubbing a finger around the rim of a wine glass. The rise and fall of water levels over time from high to low tide changes the note produced by each singing sculpture.

Portrait Projecting Ring




All images and text taken from his Website, where you can also find some essays...