Pose Your Question – David Horvitz in Conversation at firstsite
David Horvitz will be in conversation at firsite on Wednesday 16th March, 6.30pm to talk about his work and his project Some Cut Flowers. Lowongan Kerja Terbaru Horvitz will answer questions posed by worldwide participants randomly selected. If you would like to propose a question for Horvitz, please email me: sgilbe@essex.ac.uk The audience will also have […]
Mail from Jail: Imprisoned for graffiti
This is a letter from a young man in Wellingborough Prison to the exhibition Intimate Bureaucracies, earlier this year: ‘I’m currently serving a 26 month sentence for painting graffiti on walls adjacent to train tracks. You can only appreciate the specious nature of the British justive system once you’ve been at the sharp end…How many […]
Martin Herraiz Composition/Performance – Can you help?
Brazilian composer Martin Herraiz has written a piece of music especially for Send Me a Flower, etc. –Invertible/Subvertible/Pervertible. Herraiz has left both the realisation of the piece and the ‘three melodic instruments’ used to play it to chance, saying ‘depending on the obvious bureaucratics involved in getting any piece of new music performed, the work […]
Bureaucracy: Artist’s Book by Franklin Valverde
I came across this on an artist’s book blog today. ‘Bureaucracy’ by Franklin Valverde. It is a really good example of how artists using rubber stamping are able to completely subvert the in-built rationality of their medium, turning a bureaucratic means into a beautiful end. http://seminariolivrodeartista.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/franklin-valverde/
David Horvitz: Some Cut Flowers
David Horvitz has been commissioned by firstsite to create a new work for the exhibition. Some Cut Flowers is a mailing project in which David is sending individual flowers in plastic water bottles from the United States to the exhibition on a daily basis. Due to customs regulations controlling the import and export of fresh cut flowers, it is […]