Figures of Anticeptual Art
Conceptual Art is over. Read The Unmaking of Conceptual Art for one reason why.
The next set of figures I'm doing, mostly in pewter, will acknowledge the process of making more than the ideas.
I am not a concept (No Idea) 2012 pewter.
Now basically I do like ideas, so using the term anticeptual for this is a way of saving ideation space. Concepts or ideas associated with my work will be post hoc. I.E. Any idea associated with a work will the last thing I do to it. This is why it is anti-ceptual this is in contradistinction to conceptual. Might be a bad start I guess. Postceptual might be better. Or not. We'll see.
Basically the idea here comes last in the process of making the art. It is the official end of the process. As I am very process focussed I need that sort of clear definition to end the process; to stop fiddling with it. What's good about this is that there could be a lot less untitleds around. Naming the working is part of process of making the Art. I am sure this is not a new thing, I just want to acknowledge it in the face of idea driven art.
What I like by including the naming of the artwork in the process of making it, particularly in pouring metal metal sculpture, is that the accidents of the process will not portend disaster. Especially so when using all wallaby-dung investments to the wax positives, where my process is trying to minimise the environmental impact. Or, as in the case of the following piece, where a twitter hashtag describes the piece exactly at the time it was poured, not the time the wax positive was formed.
#Swineflu is born! 2009 pewter.
I also like the way I recognise my previous want to be a writer in this, and not suppress it. I've always like names. People like names.
"What's your name?"
The Conceptual Impossibility of Contemplating the Product of Damien Hirst's Marketing Campaigns as Art, for while Conceptual Art was once a Liberating Idea, it is no longer funny, an old joke too often explained, (Peter Waller agreed it was a lot like Mannerism) and anyway Conceptual Art has been Killed by His Success (Damian Hirst is six months older than me) and as Art Markets Lose Control of "What is Art?" it is Possible that the Art Market will disappear, but not because Everybody is an Artist, even if they all are Creative and Full of Ideas, (though Sue Lovegrove once told me that "No, some people have no Ideas, no Idea at all," "Really?" I said. "Really Really Really," said Sue). "Oh dear," I said, "No Art for Sale anymore? You won't be able to even sell 3D Printers because you can Print them too, once People get the Hang of that Idea what on earth will People Bother to Collect then?" 2012 pewter.
Bronze Consorts to the Mountain Goddess
The Consorts to the Mountain Goddess have been poured in bronze and pewter in Tasmania, beside a rivulet running straight down from the mountain.
Their making, ancient and new, is blogged at Consorts to the Mountain Goddess. Their final shape however will be molded in you hands, by your touch.
At the Consorts to the Mountain Goddess blog I post by project or theme, not by diary, so it's a slow blog
