Things replace things

Celebrating Paper Theatre, UCTV

Edward Kienholz - The Portable War Memorial, 1968

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lordscatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Ettore Sottsass (and Memphis Group) have come up a few times in the research I’ve been doing.  It made me think about how I made a copy of this drawing in high school as research for a project about my “personal surroundings”. Seems like a continuation of a theme started long ago.

"Based on the connections I made in The History of the World, I decided to try to get a brass band to agree to perform a repertoire of acid house music. I was terrified of ringing up the bandleader of the Williams Fairey Band to ask if he would do this. I thought it would take lots of convincing and explaining – but he agreed immediately. He just said, "All right, we'll do it. We'll do it once and see how it goes", Which is exactly the attitude you want. So we performed it once, and it went really well, and we continued to perform it. The experience taught me a lot about working with the public. I realised that I didn't have to make objects anymore. I could just do these sort of events, make things happen, work with people and enjoy it. I could do these messy, free-ranging, open-ended projects, and that freed me up from thinking about being an artist in a traditional sense. I had been liberated by a brass band."

 "I drew this diagram about the social, political and musical connections between house music and brass bands – it shows a thought process in action. It was also about Britain and British history in the twentieth century and how the country had changed from being industrial to post-industrial. It was the visual justification for Acid Brass. Without this diagram, the musical project Acid Brasswould not have a conceptual backbone."

A selection of Vincint van Gogh’s drawings in ink. Just incredible pieces of work. 

More info on Tania’s excellent website.- http://www.taniabruguera.com/cms/478-0-Tatlins+Whisper+5.htm

Pages 66-69 of Paul Auster’s - City of Glass, from 1985. (one of my favourite books!) 

Francis Alÿs - Pacing, 2001. Graphic Documentation of an action, New York

Kathy Prendergast - City Drawing Series (London, Tehran, Vaduz, Addis Ababa, Doha, Washington, Jerusalem). Pencil on Paper, 1997

Various works on paper by Mark Dion, and an installation shot as well.

Claes Oldenburg - French Fries and Ketchup, 1963. Vinyl and kapok on wooden base. 

(see the full series here - http://www.simonfaithfull.org/drawing-cycles/ouse-navigation/)

Some drawings by Marijn van Kreij that I like. Seen his work years ago at the Rijksakademie open studios. 

Grid Corrections (a one minute) -  Gerco de Ruijter, 2016

Check out the rest of them here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/31558613@N00/5315367121/in/album-72157625601126001/