tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22262012077182524812024-03-13T10:22:49.685-07:00New ObsessiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-26841922993724284472014-03-26T10:33:00.000-07:002014-03-26T10:57:30.361-07:00NEW OBSESSIVE ISSUE 13This special 13th issue of <i>New Obsessive</i> was edited by White Trash Peg. The issue coincides with the inauguration of an exhibition entitled Eurotrash which is being organised at the White Trash Gallery in LaSalle, Illinois (information contained within). This issue of New Obsessive is also being distributed in a limited edition paper format (info via peg@whitetrashart.com).
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David A. Noebel, COMMUNISM, HYPNOTISM AND THE BEATLES (1965), A Christian Crusade Publication.<br />
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Larry-bob Roberts, <i>The International homosexual Conspiracy</i> (2010).<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-65398135450493095972013-09-18T10:28:00.001-07:002013-09-18T10:28:53.048-07:00Mo-Dettes - WHITE MICE - RARE VIDEO<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/S0JCoMYpiA0" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-13653395568704854932013-08-25T09:52:00.000-07:002013-08-25T09:52:16.707-07:00O BROTHER!, SISTER IRENE O'CONNOR<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/oPB53KX3W_4" width="420"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-91085776761850989172013-04-22T07:49:00.004-07:002013-04-22T07:49:45.787-07:00WE NEED YOUR VOTE!<br />
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There is just three days remaining to show your support and vote for Gary Farrelly and Oisin Byrne's video: <i>A radical Science Guide to Dublin City</i>. If the boys win the €10000 prize money they vow to make a longer, better video portrait of the nations capital city after the style of <i>Pink Flamingoes, Twin Peaks and Paris is burning</i>. <b>Voting closes April 25th, 2013: DO IT NOW! </b><a href="http://www.uniquelydublin.ie/" target="_blank">Click here to see the video and vote!</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-50544715024609524272013-01-31T14:02:00.000-08:002013-02-11T15:21:06.887-08:00GALERIE MODONOV(2011) Photographed by Perry Ogden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-28625886721317105142013-01-28T06:04:00.000-08:002013-01-28T06:04:00.397-08:00AIR MAIL: DISPATCHED WITH LOVE<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The fourth video vignette of the RADICAL SCIENCE series, directed by Oisin Byrne, starring Gary Farrelly in Pickering Forest, Ireland.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_World_Airways">PAN AM</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot">Aeroflot</a> stewardess's embrace for the cover of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)">Life Magazine</a> in July 1968. The photograph was taken on the occasion of the inauguration direct scheduled flights between the New York and the Soviet Union's capital city Moscow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-2852080428409757942012-05-29T04:29:00.000-07:002012-05-29T04:29:02.608-07:00FIRST QUARTER ARTIST NOTEBOOKS (2012)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Change is constant - the gallery is always in flux. The walls now display
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proliferating your work via the postal system?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>A stamp licker for ART . . perhaps there’s something in that
glue, but I’ve been hooked since my teens before I knew I was even part of a
network of others of like mind. I joined the IUOMA (International Union of Mail
Artists) in 2000 when I returned to Canada from living in New York.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: How many pieces of mail art
have you handled over the years: a. inbound b. outbound?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Inbound: I’ve filled the rooms of galleries for the Mailmania
exhibits for nearly 10 years. I’ve never (ever) discarded a letter. I even have
an archive of mail in the attic of my old home in Newfoundland. So the numbers
are quite staggering I expect. I would easily say tens of thousands.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Outbound: Without a doubt I
must be one of the greatest supporters of the postal system. I expect I’ve the
licked that Queens head (stamp) more times than should be permitted. My budget
for postage far outweighs my fashion budget.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: When it comes to mail art,
I fundamentally prefer sending things unenveloped. Having the work handled and
marked by the postal system is an integral part of the process. Do you agree?
Do you have a preference: enveloped or unenveloped?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Its what I consider Naked ART . . Yes! I say . . unless you are
creating such a costume for that envelope not even the postal workers have an
idea how to approach it.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: Which is more satisfying:
giving or receiving [mail art]?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>My box is in a state of continual flux . . In/OUT In/OUT <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>. . The multi directional vortex
causes such overwhelming pleasure I cannot show any favouritism. Though it’s
because of the “In-Box” that others who visit the Palace get to share in the
magic.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: Is your artistic practice
an exclusively mail art practice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Depending on the day<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I have a true LOVE of all
things postal. Some might consider my passion for the mail somewhat obsessive
tending on the hoarding phenom. But there is much more going in the ArtSpaces
of the Palace . </b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF:Tell
me something about your wider art practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>With an alter ego character I’ve developed, I tend to be more of
a multi disciplinary artist in that I have worked in such diverse materials as
stone, fabric, wood and wool. One room of the studio is where the hats I wear
are created. Felting wool, crocheting and revisioning found objects. I am very
much a sculptor of materials in space.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: Are there any pieces that
you have received over the years that you treasure above all others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>There are certainly those works that have been eye candy for
those that are not familiar with mail art. Ceramic postcards that came from a
potter in New Brunswick, rubber portraits, paintings on cigar boxes, glass,
drift wood, a paint tin cover . . to a large pop bottle filled with small
objects from Ficus Strangulensis, even just the name of the artist alone is
poetic.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: What makes a good piece of
mail art?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Imagination and creative ingenuity. I often like it when the
system gets a bit of a test, things are not as they once were . . postal regulations
have changed, but I enjoy taking risks and seeing what can get to it’s
destination. I once received a framed oil painting with stamps attached to the
frame.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: Is there such a thing as
bad mail art?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I have only had a few works that have not seen the light of the
studio walls. (It is archived) Since I am a member of the universal “LOVE” Club
when something clearly reflects a value of hate I feel I have the right to let
it remain in the dark. As a critic I have seen some amateur works, but that is
a delight to see <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>. . it
means someone on the road to their own art expression.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Most often a Ceylon Tea . . In the evenings a Newfie Screech,
cola and lime . . . or a fine port.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Praise Goddess!!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>How can you be in this world and not be political in some way.
There are still so many issues that need voices heard and actions taken. Mail
Artists often addresses many of these issues.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: Are you working on any
interesting projects at the moment?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DM:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The Diamond Jubilee Mail Art Call is underway, the Portrait
Project is an ongoing quest that keeps me busy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Portrait Trading cards are
now being printed and a new display of visitors to the space is being mounted
in one section of the studio. (I photo document all those that have visited the
Palace over the years).</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF: Where will Dame Mailarta be
in five years?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DM:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sipping Sherry while working on my autobiography and planning my
next mail art show . . perhaps traveling the continent sharing Love and
Laughter.</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gary Farrelly, Pickering Forest.</span></b></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-88563461654983290552012-04-22T05:46:00.000-07:002012-04-22T05:46:18.703-07:00THE RECEIVING HAND, PARIS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oVz1gDjOI84/T5P5Wi_GKoI/AAAAAAAABSw/YSrMcf2qxe8/s1600/tumblr_m2kd68attD1rru6pyo1_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oVz1gDjOI84/T5P5Wi_GKoI/AAAAAAAABSw/YSrMcf2qxe8/s320/tumblr_m2kd68attD1rru6pyo1_1280.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Above)Antoine Gache [Detail] THE ATTIRE OF GARY FARRELLY (2012), Paris. Image courtesy of <a href="http://receivinghand.tumblr.com/">http://receivinghand.tumblr.com/</a></span></b></div>
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The picture was taken by Antoine Gache for his blog entitled <i><a href="http://receivinghand.tumblr.com/">Receiving Hand</a></i> which follows and contextualises the <a href="http://garyfarrelly.blogspot.com/p/mail-art.html">mail art kunst postal</a> monologue of artist Gary Farrelly. He took the photograph during a recent research excursion by both men to <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Aeroport_de_Roissy.JPG">Charles De Gaulle International Airport</a> in Paris. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-62189187207624245942012-04-05T17:39:00.005-07:002012-04-14T13:23:20.166-07:00EXHIBITION: CONTROL TOWER, TEHRAN<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yTB_bds0Pmc/T347hfliv2I/AAAAAAAABRE/ztqBCJUihyo/s1600/CONTROL%2BTOWER%2BFOR%2BNEW%2BOBSESSIVE.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yTB_bds0Pmc/T347hfliv2I/AAAAAAAABRE/ztqBCJUihyo/s400/CONTROL%2BTOWER%2BFOR%2BNEW%2BOBSESSIVE.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728081222662537058" /></a><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>(Above) image by Amirali Ghasemi and Pegah Feizabadi, Tehran(2012)</span></b><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Control Tower</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Curated by Amirali Ghasemi/</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Parking Projects</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>with</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Mona Abbaspour</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Mojtaba Adibi</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Borna Ahmadi</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Mojtaba Amini</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Ghazaleh Bahiraie</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Shilan Borhani</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Anita Esfandiari</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><span><a href="http://www.garyfarrelly.blogspot.com/">Gary Farrelly</a></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Pegah Feizabadi</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Amirali Ghasemi</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Anahita Hekmat</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Honmoz New Art Group</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Yashar Lavaee</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Mahta Saghafi</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Hamed Sahihi</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Parvin Shokri</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Martin Shamounpoor</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Tehran Carnival</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>and</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>John Mattavosian</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>+ Launch of Mehrabad Special in collaboration </b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>with <a href="http://www.aksbazi.com/">aksbazi.com</a> and New-Bookz</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Fravahr Art Gallery (in conjunction with <a href="http://www.parkingallery.com/?p=1563">Parking Gallery</a>):</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Opening:</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>11th April 2012, 15 - 20pm</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Public Viewing:</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>12th - 24th April, 12 - 20pm</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Thu 12 - 18pm</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Gallery is closed on Saturdays</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>No2 Golestan Boulevard, Africa (Jordan) Boulevard, Tehran.</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div><div><span><b><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cjrmmCszpmw/T34uprX8kfI/AAAAAAAABQ4/Dv9qXzJbESI/s1600/Control%2Btower.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cjrmmCszpmw/T34uprX8kfI/AAAAAAAABQ4/Dv9qXzJbESI/s400/Control%2Btower.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728067069614526962" /></a></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-19077140678591866782012-03-19T08:49:00.011-07:002012-03-19T09:53:44.327-07:00HIGH CULTURE ALPHABET<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; "><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5WxARFwbARA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><b><span >(Above) ALPHABET(1977), Amanda Lear.</span></b><br /></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span>This is the first installment in New Obsessive's regular new feature entitled <i>my alphabet. </i>Taking inspiration from Amanda Lear's seminal song <i>Alphabet(1977):</i><i> </i>New Obsessive has commissioned a series of indispensable alphabetic dedications compiled by expert obsessives from around the world and across the cultural spectrum. Our first alphabet takes high culture as its theme and has been furnished by Dr Francis Moulinat a French academic educated at the Sorbonne in Paris. Moulinat's alphabet is proscribed reading, listening and viewing and should be learned off by heart immediately. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span ><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 242, 242); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; ">A for the bright Apollo</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 242, 242); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; "><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">B like Pina Bausch and Maurice Béjart</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">C like Correggio</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">D like Marcel Duchamp</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">E for Umberto Eco</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">F like Firenze</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">G for Greco</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">H for Heraclitus</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">I like Imhotep</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">J for Carl Gustav Jung</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">K for Keats (A thing of beauty is a joy for ever)</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">L like Louise (Louise Bourgeois) rather than Leonardo da Vinci</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">M for Michelangelo, Monteverdi, Malevich</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">N like Nietszche</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">O for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Odyssey</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> </span>by Homerus</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">P like Botticelli's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Primavera</em><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Q stands for Enguerrand Quarton</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">R for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Rite of the Spring </em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">by Stravinsky and Ninjinski</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">S like Sinan, the architect</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">T for Titian</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">U like Paolo Ucello</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">V like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Victory of Samothrace</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">and Vermeer may be</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">W for Ludwig Wittgenstein</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">X like Yannis Xenakis (What else?)</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Y for Iseult</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Z like Zeuxis</span></span><span style="color: rgb(242, 242, 242); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-family: verdana; "><b><span >Piece commissioned by Gary Farrelly, Neustern.</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><span><b><span >Alphabet compiled by Francis Moulinat, Paris.</span></b> </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-89372328612911968772012-03-16T18:09:00.002-07:002012-03-16T18:17:00.311-07:00CHIC: PRIZE WINNING MANTLE DECORATION FROM IRELAND<span style="font-style: normal; "><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RbJ50oWZ6Q8/T2PlGVc9UeI/AAAAAAAABQI/odc8P5fVyA0/s1600/irish%2Bmantel%2Bdecoration.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RbJ50oWZ6Q8/T2PlGVc9UeI/AAAAAAAABQI/odc8P5fVyA0/s400/irish%2Bmantel%2Bdecoration.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720667848691241442" /></a><b><span >(Above) PRIZE WINNING IRISH MANTLE DECORATION(2012), pictured by Oisin Byrne.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;">As part of our </span></span><i style="font-size: 100%; ">prize winning mantle decoration series: </i><span style="font-size: 100%;">New Obsessive proudly presents the above arrangement as pictured in Celbridge by Oisin Byrne.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-71501434076775916872012-03-08T09:37:00.000-08:002012-03-08T09:38:45.195-08:00RECOMMENDED: JUDITH MOK AND ANTONIO PRAENA POETRY READING<div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l--g5AHLea4/T1jtNLlol7I/AAAAAAAABPc/Fq1CL_CmEMc/s1600/Judith%2BMok.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l--g5AHLea4/T1jtNLlol7I/AAAAAAAABPc/Fq1CL_CmEMc/s400/Judith%2BMok.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717580537651566514" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b>(Above) Image courtesy of Judith Mok.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b></b></span></div><div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b></b></span></div><div></div>Red</b></span><div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">by Judith Mok</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">The world burst out</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Of its own maps</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">And gods changed their names</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">People talked till Babylon fell</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">While my heart grew</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Into a bitter rose</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">That bled for you.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">I handed you that flower</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">We did not feast on its perfume together.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">It was given to me</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">By the winged Master of Muses</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">To celebrate a most terrible union</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;">That is called </span>separation</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">And is red torment to the</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Hundredth power</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">That is purest and blackest of all</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Judith Mok and Antonio Praena</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Poetry Reading</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>March 13 at 6pm</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b></b></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Instituto Cervantes,</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2.</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b></b></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>email: cultdub@cervantes.es</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><b>tel 01 631153</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-228516712159680302012-03-06T08:29:00.000-08:002012-03-06T08:30:07.499-08:00SOPHIE IREMONGER INTERVIEW<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BgS0IrXEEIU/T1Yyp_jAfMI/AAAAAAAABOg/L-uKSrkl37I/s1600/pleasuredome4.JPG"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BgS0IrXEEIU/T1Yyp_jAfMI/AAAAAAAABOg/L-uKSrkl37I/s400/pleasuredome4.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716812474007715010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><u></u></span></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><u></u></span></div><div></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; "><b>(Above) Image courtesy of Sophie Iremonger(2012).</b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><b style="font-weight: bold; "><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left; "><b><span><a href="http://www.garyfarrelly.blogspot.com/">Gary Farrelly</a><span><span> interviews Berlin based visual artist</span></span><a href="http://www.sophieiremonger.blogspot.com/"> Sophie Iremonger</a><span><span>. Iremonger is visiting </span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HXLnHTIeEsM/TnYhpaRcXWI/AAAAAAAAA4o/87xPuwv3zkI/s1600/P1000705.JPG">the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern</a><span><span> for the inauguration of a public square baring her name. She is being so commemorated by the Neusterner authorities for her beautiful,radical and profoundly unique cultural practice. Old friends Farrelly and Iremonger meet for drinks and quick fire questioning at a specially arranged cocktail affair in Neustern Public Zoo [The interviewee requested the location]. The two are lubricating their truth glads this evening with Enola Gaye cocktails: Gin mixed with a little water and a fizzing vitimin c tablet that must be bright orange in colour.</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JodgFvtkk78/T1YweAifAtI/AAAAAAAABOI/dfwp9vp7QLk/s1600/424032_10150720895931554_540141553_11461570_796927527_n.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JodgFvtkk78/T1YweAifAtI/AAAAAAAABOI/dfwp9vp7QLk/s400/424032_10150720895931554_540141553_11461570_796927527_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716810069092270802" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></a><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div><b><span><span><span>(Above) SOPHIE IREMONGER(2012), photographer : </span></span><a href="http://www.scott-elliott.de/">Scott Elliott</a></span></b></div></b><div style="font-weight: bold; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; "><span><br /></span></div><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; "><span><a href="http://www.garyfarrelly.blogspot.com/">GARY FARRELLY</a>: What do you do?</span></b></div></b><div style="text-align: left; "><span><a href="http://www.sophieiremonger.blogspot.com/">SOPHIE IREMONGER</a><span><span>: At the moment,I make paintings of erotic landscapes.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Why should New Obsessive's readers care?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: Three reasons. 1:In a world where it seems most art is there to belittle you and make you feel stupid, I am open to sharing a pictorial,sensual and understandable story with the viewer using COLOUR,SEX and MEANING. 2: I am engaged with the process of making and selling art in a way that removes my arrogance and egotism from the process. I do this by making my work affordable. I do this by approaching my art making as if it is any other job. 3: I have disengaged myself from the heavy brown junk of old-man oil painting- it has no meaning to me, my neon outsider veiwpoint has not been seen before and presents a truly original voice.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: You socialize and collaborate with other artists and performers in Berlin, your tribe! Among tribesmen are musicians Mary Ocher and Alexander as well as visual artists Stevie Handley and Christina Sunbeam Lobotomy. Other than personality and friendship – what unifies this group?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: There is no unity to the group. There is no group. there is love and mutual support, and alot of cookery.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: You have featured in several Mary Ocher videos. Is there a growing performative aspect of your practice?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: There is a shrinking performative aspect. I have no interest in it except when it helps my friends.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Your paintings are characterized by images of the animal kindom, sexuality and the erotic. The latter two can be observed at close quarters in Berlin. Where do you go to source images of wild beasts?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: The internet, books,wild life videos, from wastelands, from collecting plants, the images of beasts seem burned on my brain from birth.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: I see your paintings as advocating an alternative moral framework that lies somewhere between degeneracy and pack animal dynamics. Do you agree? How does this manifest in your daily operations?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: I think everything is basically Amoral and that we just pretend to be moral for various reasons. Moral is just what works within the framework of a particular situation at a particular time. The mountain does not care. The fang does not care.This not caring excites me.</span></div></span></span><div style="font-weight: bold; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; "></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8EIs3176Dsw/T1YxYx3LwBI/AAAAAAAABOU/pKY7YJMwIs4/s1600/install_005.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8EIs3176Dsw/T1YxYx3LwBI/AAAAAAAABOU/pKY7YJMwIs4/s400/install_005.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716811078764838930" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></a><div style="font-weight: bold; "><b style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: center; "><b>(Above) Image courtesy of Sophie Iremonger(2012).</b></div></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-size: large; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Professionally: When will you know you are successful? Is the destination as important as the journey?</b></div></b></div><span><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: Success and failiure are 2 faces on the same coin. I will not have other peoples views on whether I am a success or failiure inflicted on me.The journey has prescedence. I just want to keep making and keep getting paid. I just want to keep growing like a rapacious weed. I am developing. I will always be a work in progress.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Dublin did not have much to offer you. Berlin seems to work. Are you encamped there forever?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: there is no forever.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; "><span><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; "><b><span>GF: A certain type of person is drawn to my work: allot of architects, engineers, libertarians and old school eccentrics. Who gravitates to the work of Sophie Iremonger?</span></b></div><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: Enviromental engineers and perverts. No not really, those who GET it!</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Describe Sophie Iremonger aged 80?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: Rotting away wearing a helmet with a paintbrush attached to it, shouting at interns. Being wheeled to lectures I do not understand by well meaning homosexuals. Just like now really.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Do you believe in god?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: Yes.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Are you political?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: One cant help but have a point of view.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Do you have faith in mankind?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: In a few specimens.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: Fashion is important to Sophie Iremonger. Your style is somewhere between power dressing, tranny sensibility and classic elegance. What do you wear when you scrub the floor? How will you be dressed when layed our in your coffin on end day?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: I spend most of the day wearing hideous snakeskin trousers and a painty jumper, I assume I will be buried in hideous snakeskin trousers and a painty jumper.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></div><span><b style="font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="font-weight: bold; ">GF: You adore animals but have no pets. Why? And what would make an ideal domestic animal for Sophie Iremonger?</b></div></b><span><div style="text-align: left; "><span>SI: I do not adore animals. I do not adore people. I am simply engaged with their BEINGNESS. I would like to be the pet of a very rich old lady.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; "><b>Gary Farrelly, Neustern.</b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-34146054108168454042012-03-01T09:44:00.001-08:002012-03-01T09:46:28.771-08:00CHIC: PRIZE WINNING MANTLE DECORATION FROM TEXAS.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hsonfydd5Lo/T0-zASSzx3I/AAAAAAAABL0/BZJL5NQs550/s1600/Texan%2Bmantle%2Bcomposition.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; height: 300px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714983269648549746" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hsonfydd5Lo/T0-zASSzx3I/AAAAAAAABL0/BZJL5NQs550/s400/Texan%2Bmantle%2Bcomposition.jpg" /></a><br /><strong>(Above) Michael Malone, A PRIZE WINNING TEXAN MANTLE IN A DOMESTIC SETTING(2012), private collection, Dallas. The composotion includes a <a href="http://garyfarrelly.blogspot.com/p/verified-artist-information.html">fine art sovereign debt bond</a> issued by <a href="http://garyfarrelly.blogspot.com/">Gary Farrelly</a>.</strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-26232705858186033632012-02-15T13:34:00.000-08:002012-02-15T15:06:47.243-08:00INTERVIEW WITH A B-52<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qBA8hb3janQ/Tzwp_tUFf7I/AAAAAAAABKI/HfeY3VTEXFU/s1600/tno_cindywilson.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 169px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qBA8hb3janQ/Tzwp_tUFf7I/AAAAAAAABKI/HfeY3VTEXFU/s400/tno_cindywilson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709484602071285682" /></a><br /><div style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div><span style="font-size: 100%; "><b>(Above)Peggy Clydesdale/ White Trash Art, INTERVIEW WITH A B-52(2012), courtesy of the artist.</b></span><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; ">White Trash Peg poses three questions to Cindy Wilson of The B-52's. They meet after a concert by the group in Athens, Georgia where they formed over three decades ago</span><span>. Can White Trash Peg find out everything we need to know about the weird and wonderful B-52's in just three questions? </span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span><b>White Trash Peg: What brand of hairspray do you prefer?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span>Cindy Wilson: Non aerosol preferably.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span><b>WTP: Grits or hash browns?</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span>CW: Grits! Of course! With cheese and jalapenos</span><span style="font-family: verdana; ">.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-family: verdana; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><b><span>WTP: As a world traveler, can you identify any similarities between Athens, Georgia and Athens, Greece?</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span>CW: They are both hot with beautiful people and I could definitely live there.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></div><div><span ><b>Conducted by White Trash Peg with Cindy Wilson at Club Max, Athens, GA on Friday 10th February, 2012.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-family: verdana; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-family: verdana; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-family: verdana; "><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-family: verdana; "> </span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; "><span><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-65808897109311577062012-01-17T11:20:00.000-08:002012-01-17T11:40:15.724-08:00EXCLUSIVE VISUAL ANNOUNCEMENT BY DAVID TURPIN<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LbT0kcpgZ0k/TxXNgX3OJvI/AAAAAAAABHI/CMbOy-WHgC4/s1600/Announcement%2Bfor%2BNew%2BObsessive2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LbT0kcpgZ0k/TxXNgX3OJvI/AAAAAAAABHI/CMbOy-WHgC4/s320/Announcement%2Bfor%2BNew%2BObsessive2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698686859552368370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >(Above) EXCLUSIVE VISUAL ANNOUNCEMENT(2012), Dublin.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">There follows an EXCLUSIVE VISUAL ANNOUNCEMENT for publication only in the </span><em style="font-family: verdana;">New Obsessive</em><span style="font-family:verdana;">. The views expressed in the visual announcement do not reflect those </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" style="font-family:verdana;">harbored</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> by New Obsessive. Find out more about </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.myspace.com/davidturpin">David Turpin</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226201207718252481.post-79108650616412149532012-01-11T07:58:00.000-08:002012-01-25T10:47:37.108-08:00RADICAL SCIENCE - EMOTIONS<span class="Apple-style-span"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mmjO7WZOj1o" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">RTSN1 (Radio Tele-Service Neustern) is proud to introduce the second video <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">vignette directed by Oisin Byrne and starring Gary Farrelly. Entitled Radical Science - Emotions, the material was written by Farrelly and Byrne. The piece was commissioned by RTSN on behalf of the government of Neustern as part of national mental health week.</span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Renate Muller, Riga.</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0