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This was not an artwork/intervention/performance; simply an attempt to mark a tragedy with a gesture and hopefully the growth of new life.
It helped fulfil the need to do something that I have been struggling with ever since hearing about Shaquille's death.
It will change little, but what is altered will matter.
Posted on September 30, 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment
Future Performance 1
Sick Note cUlture gives time - that most precious of commodities - back to the over-worked middle classes of modern urban society.
The project participants will be invited to register on the work's website through fliering in London's financial district. After enrolling for the work they will be contacted by Tim at a date some weeks hence. When this contact is made he will provide them with an appropriate excuse for cancelling all their engagements for the next day, thereby… Continue
Posted on September 29, 2008 at 9:30pm —
Why all this lying?
I did.
The confusing date arrangement has arisen because I've been changing the date on each text as it has been posted.
Why have I done this?
No reason really.
It's not very helpful I know, and does make it look my activity has been taking place in the more distant past than it actually has.
But I like it.
I want to have a September's worth… Continue
Posted on September 26, 2008 at 9:30pm —
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- Where do you live?
- London
- What else do you want us to know?
- Tim believes the world to be a more interesting place when it's looked at in a certain way. It's more interesting, more beautiful, and sometimes both.
He also thinks it's best not to take ourselves too seriously.
Tim’s work has taken him throughout the UK, Europe and beyond. In 2007, he cofounded the Grunts for the Arts artists collective. (www.gruntsforthearts.wordpress.com)
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the crucial word here is 'change' - most aren't attempting a huge change they are after a huge effect (which I believe is the word I originally used) which is a very different thing ...
"today's saviour being tomorrow's dictator?"
surely thats not important? what's important is believing wholeheartedly in what you do and standing by anything that results from what you do (good or bad) in the future - ie honesty always.
'you've got to laugh, it's only life, isn't it?'
but then there's the saying "It's only life. No it's more serious than that."
So do you only measure seriousness in terms of pain?
"life is serious, because it can and does hurt a great deal"
I would argue that the West is in trouble because we no longer try/need to try to be 'the best we can be'.
As the Balinese say, according to McLuhan, when told what Western Art was, “We have no art. We do everything as well as we can."
Surely life is a very serious matter. Maybe you mean that humour in art is acceptable? But that doesn't mean that it can't/shouldn't be serious. Or did you have something else in mind?
Previously I meant the broader form of Performance/socially engaged art as being in danger of becoming ridiculous - not just the humourous type - esp when it attempts to affect 'dramatic' change or to say something 'big'.
I'm trying to get at why you think such actions sadly live only in the halcyon past.
(ie an automatic response to an over-saturation of similar messages)
Isn't an art form based on humour liable to full into the same trap?
ah timmy! you old thesp....
Did You Know -
The Penis Song from the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life,
in which Eric Idle as pianoist in the persona of a Noel Coward-style lounge singer: hence the sub-title of the song "Not the Noel Coward Song, has the closing refrain
if you "take it out in public," then "they will stick you in the dock."?
But is it necessary/possible any more for socially engaged performance to have this effect?
You may find that you're in a similar position to me with your work. For years, I felt that I had a real commitment to work that combined a strong sense of aesthetic with a real commtiment to community and social change. However, it's taken me a really long time to find that niche here in the UK. It's only recently, with my work at the drop-in, that I've finally been able to explore that side of things. And the drop-in is a very unusual kind of place!
So although I'm sure your journey is different to mine, I suspect it might just be about context: you're finding work easily in the charities sector, but as an artist you've found more of a home in the Live Art sector. It's hard to know where you might end up, but I suspect the two will somehow become less independent from each other at some point.
As for Latonnya, she is a member of this Ning site: http://thefutureisonthetable.ning.com. She is just starting to explore some ideas and is nervous about taking her first steps as an artist, but I'm sure a dialogue with you would be interesting. And yes, this was the project I was just involved with in Charleston, South Carolina.
rajni.x.
All I can say is that I really experience the internet's remarkable capacity to bridge distances between people as a deep inspiration. I don't know of any other form that has that scope, and it's the ability to connect with humanity as a whole that gives wings to my imagination ...
You can see my work on my blog: www.beautydialogues.com, and in many of the sites listed in the right hand column (most of which I designed).
I love what you have to say here, and am very intrigued by your profile photo. :-) It looks so bohemian! :-)
I'd love to see your 'personal' art, which from your description sounds very engaged, at least in ways I believe are crucially important and valuable to all of us - "beauty, intimacy and the understanding of chance and the uncontrollable".
INcidentally, last year at Performance Studies International in London, there was a very interesting discussion about this as part of the Community Performance Work Group. I think there will be one this year in New York also.
Finally, I realised when reading your comment how you were looking at me, rather benevolently, through your chosen profile photo. And then I realised that when people read my comments I'm looking at them rather fiercely with money in my mouth! Ah well. Also provocative...
Love your grunts site
We do a lot of grunting for arts here in Oz but sport always wins
Will you hold grunt olympics alongside the other in 2012? I am sure we can get an Aussie team... I run speed writing and marathon days for artists here so we are already way ahead..as for the water events i am sure i can train up some wet writers to compete or submerge themsleves in the deeper more subconscious events .. cheeers jan
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