Robert GoatBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: London
Edinburgh College of Art
Through the construction and exploration of power structures my work investigates the dissemination of images used to shape public consciousness and consent. Through the use of audio and visual collage my work constantly struggles between repetition and conformity – in both cases taken to their most absurd and extreme conclusions. Whether it is by gathering 25 red-heads in a domestic room, or performing the perfect pop song with a band of doppelgangers, investigating crowd manipulation using subsonic sound and public text-based work or compiling all the cover versions of ‘Imagine’ to be played consecutively, my body of work continually investigates the relationship between the audience and dominant systems through an overt theatricality.
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Work of art I would like to makeIn the Team Building videos which formed the centre-piece of my degree show the paintings at the centre of each screen performed duel and simultaneous functions as reverential centre pieces within the white space, whilst also highlighting the banal absurdity of the office situation. The never-ending actions of the exercises of the workers operating in the context of the paintings and their projection through the TV screens contradicts the ‘originality’ of the medium by exploring its potential for constant repetition and as a tool of conformity. If this piece were to be expanded from 10 team building exercises to 50 – both the performance of these and the manner in which they would be displayed would result in the work being taken to its most absurd conclusion. Every exercise would be a further bastardisation of the intended goal of team building, with the effect being that of looking at an entire office block façade – at the same time voyeuristic and ridiculous.
Every piece I do is involved in some form of editing, re-editing, censoring or repeating. Whilst the Team Building games are repeated to highlight the absurd conformity of the action – they merely represent one aspect of my wider practice which attempts to create a totalising, multifarious body of work. I therefore see the possibility of this piece evolving in conjunction with other works in different mediums.
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My Artworks (6)
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