Tuesday, 30 June 2009

• What I Do At Work When I'm Supposed to be Working.

  
  
  
  
  
  This week on the blog:
  THE WEEK OF AWESOME.
  
  
  As some of you know - I am an internet/art/typography nerd times a million and spend a lot of time with my computer/BFF. (Not really, but sometimes, I really wonder. If this MacBook could speak/hear for real - it would know me pretty freaking well. Typing in lame/not lame words - scowling, smiling, crying - clothed, naked)
  
  Back to my nerd factor - I have reference file of inspiring, interesting, clever, beautiful things on my computer that is enough for 10 people.  Today's I just saw today. Below are pieces from an exhibition by David Fullarton and part of an exhibition organized by John Herschend of Skydive called Sisyphus Office. It is currently taking place in Houston, Texas.
  
  

  The artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices in and around Houston in order to highlight art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life. The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, capitalism, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void. It’s about recognizing the comedy in the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again to do the same thing all over again the next morning.

  
  David Fullarton's contribution below: is an installation in the offices of Houston radio station 90.1 KPFT entitled "What I do at work when I'm supposed to be working." It consists of a number of small works made entirely from office supplies, which are pinned up randomly around the office, in amongst the notices, flyers and memos that were already existing in the  environment. More details here: http://www.theskydive.org/
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
  I am back from Keats (lovely, calm, crazy Keats) and took a Holga. I am anxious to see the pictures, but they need to be sent away and sent back - at the moment I am having trouble remebering that one of the reasons I like film is the whole delayed gratification/more real factor. I really hope they do not look like garbage. Tomorrow? More awesome!
  
  
  

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