Artist Statement
My art ethic is driven by an impulse towards disruption.
I wish to strip visual and behavioral codes from their contexts, exposing them
for the absurd and oppressive rituals they are. I seek the balance of education
and anti-education, diplomacy and instinct. My prime focus is the fragile axis
of muted, cultured brain-matter. I want to destroy basic and unnoticed
assumptions, from the mundane to the abstract, to provide new space for
unwritten and unrehearsed practices. I believe in hypocritical art—the art of
multidimensionality, of the dogma of anti-dogma and the reverse, of concepts
not yet verbalized, of life. I believe in an anti-alphabet, of Craig Owens’s
allegory, which discusses the dichotomies of humanity and biotic matter, of instinct
and inescapable egoism. I believe in an art which strips the signified from the
sign and liberates the signifier. I believe in choice art—the closest I can
fathom to free art—and free art—art I cannot fathom. I believe in art as
objects, not art objects, and not subjects. I believe in shallow art, free from
semiotic. Disrupt the acoustic image! Open yourself to an illogical
synesthesia! Disarm and disword! No rules!
Experience the art of psychological realism! Experience
experience twice removed! Experience it anew. Non-stagnant art must, in the
words of Susan Sontag, subject the viewer to its experience, rather than the
other way around. I believe in counter-Pop Art, reversing the damage done by
post-modern consumerist aesthetics. I believe in the arguably surreal. Let’s
re-consider figurative formalism: a phantasmagoria of the concrete and the
abstract both in content and in structure, a state of abjection, an
unintelligible moment and activity, recognizable to resist dogmatic
interpretation, physically implausible and yet honest in its depiction,
spontaneous and cryptic, universal and personal. Specificity yields
alienation—I am for an art which alienates everyone equally. I believe in an
art for which language was not made to describe. I believe in an art which,
fully aware of its objectiveness, takes place in the neurons of the viewer. I
wish to destroy visual literacy, to strip you of your logical and local
defenses.
Art as experience:
involving, empathetic, honest, wordless, in which the wish for a conclusion may
never be consummated. I believe in abusing camp for cultural and/or
anti-cultural art. I believe in an experience more tangential than Pop-Art,
less pretentious than Abstract Expressionism, less literal than Surrealism, as
cryptic as Dada. I believe in self-referential anti-purist art, art with its
own environment, objective multi-media installations of an un-objective truth.
I believe in art as manipulative as literature, as obvious as dance, as formal
as cinema. I believe in art of primal consequence—art that makes one blush,
vomit, yawn, scream, laugh, stare, react wordlessly. I believe in the art of
metalanguage and physicality. I believe in grotesque art, sex art, honest art,
paranoid art, sensitive art, sterile art, smelly art, messy art, pristine art,
uneducated art, spontaneous and abstracted art, microcosmic art, macrocosmic
art, subatomic art. I believe in nonsense art and narrative art, temporal art
pieces and theatrical art, almost invisible art. I believe in a vulnerable and invasive
art. I believe in an art to catholicize subjective “reality”. I believe in art
that does not claim to be any more real than any other experience.
If art is
experience, its setting must be one of two places: the mind, or the body. I
wish to externalize internal conflict, intrinsic self-consciousness, secret
day-nightmares. I believe in the art of the human experience, whether depicted
in the piece or experienced in its inevitable translation, of incoherent or
dissected thought.
No comments:
Post a Comment