Of Shit and MUD: un-making across the Cthulucene
Your truths have little but the bitterness which has sown them, their edge honed on generations who learned to accept things only if accompanied by kicks, cuffs and mortification. But all arguments cut both ways and set up their own repression. What is knowledge worth when it is founded on the tacit postulate that oneself is one’s own worst enemy?
Raoul Vaneigem,
The Book of Pleasures
Where do memes go to die?
Digital, temporal, sculptural, performative // a shitstorm — multidisciplinary // through techno-augmentation the artist explores the dissipation of physical space into digital architecture // contemporary kitsch combined with the aesthetics of teenage consumerism highlight the human within the spectacle
like any playground stunt: this is an aesthetics of validity // anti-validity // MUDDY-THINKING // in jokes — the North Sea: stupidity // OUT: a fascination with disassociation // an over reliance on play
within—the utopic draws a path to the dystopic // where decaying myths are digitised // AND ideas are conceptualised until meaningless: we have come to see that thoughts are cheap // morphing fragmentations // AND expressions with short attention spans — the artist tends to digress // understand — stubborn art is beautiful in its willingness to fail.
Promethea
c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure.
Purifications
3D animation, Empedecle's fragments, emoji translator, straw, twine, steel.
Epimetheus
c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure.
HORSEPLAY
exegesis, digital feces, memes.
Dinosaurs
3D animation, faceswap AI, straw, twine, steel.
Chimera
c-type digital print, puffy stickers, steel, straw, found numberplate.
Of Shit and MUD: un-making across the Cthulucene
Your truths have little but the bitterness which has sown them, their edge honed on generations who learned to accept things only if accompanied by kicks, cuffs and mortification. But all arguments cut both ways and set up their own repression. What is knowledge worth when it is founded on the tacit postulate that oneself is one’s own worst enemy?
Raoul Vaneigem,
The Book of Pleasures
Where do memes go to die?
Digital, temporal, sculptural, performative // a shitstorm — multidisciplinary // through techno-augmentation the artist explores the dissipation of physical space into digital architecture // contemporary kitsch combined with the aesthetics of teenage consumerism highlight the human within the spectacle
like any playground stunt: this is an aesthetics of validity // anti-validity // MUDDY-THINKING // in jokes — the North Sea: stupidity // OUT: a fascination with disassociation // an over reliance on play
within—the utopic draws a path to the dystopic // where decaying myths are digitised // AND ideas are conceptualised until meaningless: we have come to see that thoughts are cheap // morphing fragmentations // AND expressions with short attention spans — the artist tends to digress // understand — stubborn art is beautiful in its willingness to fail.
PROMETHEA. c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure.
PURIFICATIONS. 3D animation, Empedecle's fragments, emoji translator, straw, twine, steel.
EPIMETHEUS. c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure.
HORSEPLAY. exegesis, digital feces, memes.
DINOSAURS. 3D animation, faceswap AI, straw, twine, steel.
CHIMERA. c-type digital print, puffy stickers, steel, straw, found numberplate.
