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Manifesto
for a new materialism of possibilities

I

For colour as a physical proposition, the embodied colour of pigment, wax, cloth, wood, sponge, paper, card

For matter, process and object generating form and content

For colour giving birth to the object

For colour as sensory overload

For colour inhabiting a different space

For the object as a synthesis of sensory and mental experience

For proposals, operations, gaps and interludes


II

No to referentiality

No to style

Be a pagan, not a heretic

Draw your map, write your manifesto

Propose art as an insect bite

Practice the sidestep

Create a black hole, a pinprick in events

Redefine the distance between art and life, an inhalation, an exhalation, a sigh

Don't fetishize

Pull your finger out of the dyke


III

Don't be a jerk / Be a jerk

Stop censoring yourself

Judge your work

Avoid neat philosophical packages:
unravel don't illustrate

Thwart expectations

Walk / Don't Walk


IV

is this some kind of joke?

colloid
crystalline
vitreous
amorphous - having no discernible shape

ineluctable
from which one cannot escape by struggling

25 unnameable colours

what's the difference between

stratagem ruse wile art artifice device wrinkle shift dodge

sometimes it feels

It's, like,

nouns of assemblage

scratch the itch
itch the scratch

no particular results

the things that come to hand

try to get a handle on all this
there is no handle to take hold of anymore

what a red, what a green, what a yellow, what a purple,
what blue

359°

2007
359 text objects installed on the street / catalogue available

HOMMAGE

2007
Letter and individually chosen texts sent each week to a different artist

Monochromes

2007
squares of painted canvas 2" x 2" mounted and arranged to form differently sized monochromes put up as posters in different cities

quandaries

2008
A series of 499 paper bags each with a numbered quandary. Used in shops for purchases in the ususal way. // plump or baby // quixotic or luxuriate // welcome or broken // lupin or sequin // dolorous or frivolous // preface or thought

triangulation point

2008
or lay it against things like a measure // 2 cardboard boxes 30 x 24 x 3 cm, each containing 100 birds folded out of 17 x 17 cm paper bags. Before construction the bags are stencilled with a number. The completed birds are stamped with a line from the poet Sappho. The boxes are left in a public place so the birds may be taken.

Light Drift

2007
508 screwed-up paper balls painted with beeswax and floated down a river

black painting with objects

2008
beeswax and pigment on card
88 x 64 x 10 cm 70 individual cells made of card, beeswax and black pigment stacked in a grid with wax-painted objects placed in the cells

dumb show // theatre of objects with three scripts

2008
mixed media
1.the shine on the nose 2.the quincunx of solitude 3.farcical bicycle 70 x 90 x 68 cm

Portait : manganese blue

2008
oil paint, canvas, card, paper, g;ue, brick line, clothes pegs
100 postcards each 14.8 x 10.5 cm / original monochromes canvas mounted on card / each in a polythene bag pegged to a line / viewers may take a card

manifesto for a theatre of objects (manifesto of farce & fetish)

2008
let objects speak louder than subjects objects demand a mouthpiece a maw asking for more objects invested with others' desires desire to speak let me show you the backs of the words & when objects talk you can't understand them waxen words waxing words matter / words as matter / make matter matter the theatre-glyph-speak-action-cut-show demand to speak dumb show bright lights melt make up a langu- age a ton- gue for the speech less: oilo oilo make a ranting broadside rant make a cavalry charge of dis-sense make a sounding board telling the stringency of strine make a drama of no-sense-sense the texture taste and sound no information-strange just nowsense as the words are sprung leave behind meaning space truce enlighten ment meaning fled underground rhizomes & roots grass & termites insect bites 'rounded by flowers but still the beeswax rubber finger polyp urge the text eros riding a panther shout whoop stamp invent the present