Four from the Professors series

More images from the Professors series from the early 1990’s; but why is the series called Professors? In the late 16^th and early 17^th centuries there were people who claimed to know what “true” religion was and they were referred to as Professors of the Truth. Their seamless combination of religion and politics changed society, changed Europe. In the present day it is the ecologists and people concerned about the environment that question our life choices and the way we impact the planet. These photographs are of artworks I constructed out of natural materials – earth, stone and wood – naturally balanced. They are photographed because they are unstable and not suitable for exhibiting in a gallery, they might fall over. And that is the point of the pieces. They represent the environment and like the environment they are easily unbalanced by human carelessness with catastrophic results. In creating the Professors artworks I was influenced by Arte Povera, Mono-ha and Fluxus. 

 

Four untitled structures from the Professors series

 

Untitled, from the Professors series

Cut from discarded branches and painted gold. Gold represents value, trees are valuable. 

I saw my image and I knew my own imprisonment.

A Sculpture, an Assemblage, a Performance Piece? Buil de Onplezierig admires the artwork, “The chair stands, shoreless and infinite in an anonymous space, waiting – waiting like the elephant Heiyantuduwa Raja to carry the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha? Public and critical reception to this Assemblage is mixed, divided between admiration for the mise en scène and incomprehension as to its significance. This composition contains nothing overtly surrealistic, yet the unnatural clarity of the detail replete with dream visions is hallucinatory in effect. Fearfully and wonderfully made, precious and unique, do we miss the truth and are we brave enough to ask the obvious question? Well, what is it? An outlay of skill and imagination, an object inhabited by an artist’s aura? Is it where language is not sufficient, something new made known, individualism, originality? Pieter Brueghel drew a whale and inside there were hundreds of smaller fish. We see a chair but inside there are hundreds of ideas, assumptions, decisions. Does the chair represent a dialectical tension between the personal and the public?”

Père Ubu

 

Slava Ukraini!

Slava Ukraini!

Two photographs made by the Bloggist in 1975/76

Photographs the Bloggist never thought would become relevant again.

Belittling the Russians by making fun of them

Bombing

Poets Corner

Lenin, on arrival at the Finland Station in Petrograd, speaks:

Barnsley / Utopia

Verse for the versifier, the Beefheart of Barnsley

See the town there in the middle – Utopia

We recognize no theory

Barnsley Dada, it’s as easy as one two three;

The Jackson 5 shimmy down Eldon Street

Past the NHS Yorkshire Smokefree

Choose what works for you: A, B, C.

Non-art REALlTY to be grasped by all peoples

Hannah Hoch in the Alhambra Shopping Centre

Admiring McGuinn’s Rickenbacker and Marvin’s Fender.

“Apache” on a Sunburst ’57 Stratocaster, so tender. 

Dada; abolition of memory

Dada; abolition of archaeology

Barnsley Beefheart purges the world of dead art,

Revolutionary Poet in a state of constant transformation,

The business and purpose of poetry? Barnsleyfication!

Helene Abelen humming “Blame it on the Boogie”

Dada means nothing, Barnsley means everything

Barnsley buildings, concrete poetry and grapefruit.

Kurt Schwitters holds back the water, a Merz Canute

Les chiens sont amicaux mais les voies ferrées ne convergent pas

Das Meer ist blau

Unter der Linden

In der Ecke

Kartoffeln

 

See, ART DADA, see, BUILDING DADA:

Marc Quinn – Barnsleyfied

Jala Wahid – Barnsleyfied

Mark Wallinger – Barnsleyfied

Niki de Saint Phalle – Barnsleyfied

Chris Ofili – Barnsleyfied

Cornelia Parker – Barnsleyfied

Tony Cragg – Barnsleyfied

Rachel Whiteread– Barnsleyfied

David Nash – Barnsleyfied

Maya Derren – Barnsleyfied

Whisper it, “And the beat goes on”.