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Art Writing Now

12/14/2016

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Last week I travelled to Hestercombe, Taunton for Art Writing Now - a day of seminars hosted by the Art Writers Group.

​As I continue through the slip'n'slide life of an artist and graduate, the day helped to consolidate my practice as (among other things) a writer for magazines and blogs (most recently for Newfangled Press)

​Here are some phrases and tips that landed in my ears throughout the day:

​Patrick Langley (The White Review)
​- art writing as memoir and/or fiction
- the novel as curated form
​- 'professional hybridisation'
​- "we need an erotics of art" - Susan Sontag

​Mary Paterson ('It Moves' - a performative lecture)
​- "this is a lie"
​- the gaps in language that can be filled in/expanded
​- "language is a suit of someone else's clothes you try on" - Tim Etchells

​Phil Owen (Tertulia)
- experiments in voice and language
​- this made me think about the use of Instagram and the production of performance videos using recorded voice and text. I'd like to work in this way on I CAN//I CAN'T and other past pieces
​- "truths that aren't lies don;t have to be a lie"

​Tom Jefferies (Learned Pig)
​- thoughts of psycho-geography
​- gave me more ideas on my future piece of writing 'Eternity, Sometimes'

Greg Neale (Resurgence and The Ecologist)
- expect the unexpected
- afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted
- who are you writing for and what do they want?
​- create your own career and be flexible
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the art world's prankster

12/8/2016

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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b084zy6z/imagine-autumn-2016-4-the-art-worlds-prankster-maurizio-cattelan

A recent BBC production illuminated the practice of Italy's notorious 'art pranskter' Maurizio Cattelan. His art is reactionary and provokes reaction from others - sculpture, performance and conceptual works take pride in the trail of misinformation and mockery of order. He says that "every answer is valid", and though some works are made to push buttons with more intent than others, there are subtler notes of anxiety; a balance of comedy and tragedy (a dragon I chase within my own practice) that make some of his works "pieces of poetry". Cattelan, however, may prefer to compare his art to meat or dirty laundry than poetry (see All). Despite all the gags (and perhaps because of them), it's clear that passion and sincerity as well as irony and anarchy are mixers in his creative cocktail. "We have art so we don't die of truth".

Daddy Daddy - life size Pinocchio floating in water
L.O.V.E. -
giant hand facing away from the stock exchange
Errotin -
performance with a penis-rabbit costume
Turisti -
stuffed pigeons complete with shit
Another Fucking Readymade -
the entire contents of another artist's show, stolen

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you came here by accident

12/4/2016

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A new phase in the ongoing performance-based colab with artist and friend Nine Derricott

(previously including a pornhub project, live video performances and the TRIBULATION series - see tomstockley.weebly.com/collaboration for more)

Follow @youcameherebyaccident on Instagram to see the conversation.
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