OMFG! (neon sign) and Elaborate Hoax (thirteen variously destroyed paintings).
OMFG! at C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, 2009. Group show with Adam Cruickshank, Hit & Miss, Rob McLeish, Dell Stewart, Kotoe Ishii, Simon Pericich, Emile Zile. Co-curated with Dell Stewart.
OMFG! was foremost an investigation into the subjective nature of offensiveness, combined with the sometime related aesthetic of DIY. In a world where big culture costs trillions, is cynically target-marketed and controlled by even bigger economics, the individual artist deciding she or he can brazenly contribute to culture on their own divisive terms is tantamount to fucking revolution. (via @darren)
Can I just give a really fucking huge HELL YES! and maybe even a fist pump to this. I love scripty, lurid neon signage.
See also: Hopscotch Films logo which has a slightly geometric yet scripty feel to it (look ma, I’m trying to describe fonts!). When I was a kid I used to write my name in script as one word (amandawheeler); when I’m rich from clocking the internet & writing several best-selling-though-not-truly-understood novels I will have my name spelt out in a neon sign just like that. Now you know.
Wendy Kawabata, Withdrawn From Circulation, 2008
Corban’s Art Estate, Henderson, Auckland, NZ.
Kind of blasphemous but kind of amazing! I may have to go and look at it very soon.
Thirty days to thirty
We’re ten days in. What else do you want to see? Ask!
Experiments in real life
R. observed: You live only half in the real world when you are here. You live through the camera instead of living in the present.
R. is the type of friend whose thoughts generate thought; I trust his creative instinct and his critical eye. His intelligence is well respected. He shuns time online as lifestyle choice rather than luddism.
The comment crystallised into an experiment. I decided to restrict my camera use for six months to see what would happen. To see if I would actually live a little more in the present and to see what it would do to the memory process.
From January to June I took minimal photos. Where I did, these were usually iPhone shots or a few on my small camera. I made conversation, I waited through pauses while others set up their shots and ignored the twitch towards camera case.
The outcome? A six month gap in my timeline.
There’s no artifact to mark Peter and Katherine’s visit, the Pixies concert or remember the particular moments in time: that light or the attempt at visual representation of an idea. I remember these things but have no sense of context and order (was the Pixies concert before or after P&K were here? when did summer end?). Other people’s photos are like crime scene recreations without the personal layer, the EXIF data of my memory.
I’ll go back to chasing and then tagging the butterflies on pins. R. may disagree, but I’ll know when I see him next. There will be another photo of him & me.
New project starts today - Thirty Days to Thirty:
- a countdown to thirty
- a reflection on personal status quo
- some nice pictures (one a day for thirty days, in fact)
“ I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
Auckland Zinefest is approaching!
Come along and get a copy of Subject’s second issue, which quite literally has words and pictures in it. We’ll also have some other words and pictures, printed out on pieces of paper, and stapled together.
In even more exciting news, Amanda is going to be right next door to us with her own picture and word based products!
It’s a great day, and you can get a whole swag full of interesting, unique stuff for like $20, or, goods of equal value. So come.
Yes! Come!
I will have a new zine, some copies of old zines & some of Cameron’s new poetry zine “declarations and wine”.
As far as i know, old zine friends like Moira and Amber are going to be there also, so it will be just like 2003 all over again.
xo!
YouTube playlist of videos made of the (mighty) Code Blacks during FullCodePress 2010.
Code Blacks timeline o’ tweets
Compiled in a very manual fashion for your viewing and my archival pleasure.
View slideshow for tweets & related photos in the timeline or browse through from the beginning for related links etc where relevant.
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