May 16, 2014
Degenerate Art Ensemble‘s Art Stream has just published my conversations with writer Ranbir Singh Sidhu and choreographer/performer Arturo Vidich. And check out the marvelous art stream – it has many years’ of compelling artist essays curated by some of the most intriguing artists working across disciplines.
Arturo Vidich and I sail happily into the ways in which artmaking involves contingency and disruption, bad ideas, not-knowing, in-between-ness, atomichanical fabrics, memories of future objects, endogenous DMT, dark mirrors, H.P. Lovecraft, slamming into time waves, attempting the impossible, replicated selves, semi-autonomous animals, un-abilities, in-abilities, and dis-abilities, being shamed by autocorrect, soul retrieval, and other engaging enigmas. Read it HERE!
In conversation with Ranbir Singh Sidhu, we discuss hidden faces and hydra heads, hellhounds and trails, black magic plagues, anchorites and oracles and seers: various mythos and mysteries of making and unmaking. Read it HERE!
My fourteen-essay series is THE TALISMANIC TETRAKAIDECAHEDRON. A Tetrakaidecahedron is a structure with fourteen faces. In this fourteen essay series, I’m considering the artist as a fourteen-faced travelling vessel – a many-headed hydra-ship of fools, an assemblage of hellhound selves who enter and emerge from our collective (and individual) underworlds, bearing talismans, rites, rituals, good and bad luck charms.
As I mentioned in Day One, I am curious about the tactics of storytelling and narrative: how they are used to create mythos and historicity, as weapons of hegemonic power, and also as tools of resistance and liberation. How do certain artists question or subvert official stories (narrative, visual, or otherwise) of normalcy and belonging? In what ways does this work serve as weapons for and against otherness? Do we create from within an underworld? And are we insiders there, or outsiders?