This is a brief description of my practice as an artist.
ME DESCRIBING MY WORK:
My artistic practice explores how media facilitates an actualisation of the virtual; looking at the relationships between the artist and the audience. My practice examines and critiques the use of media to explore the borders between the virtual and the actual. My work exhibits a relational aesthetic. My work explores the relationships between artist and audience.
WHY DO I MAKE THIS ART:
I choose this practice because I see art as mechanism to bring people and/or ideas together, who might otherwise not come together. In this manner the artist becomes the interface between ideas, people, and stuff/place. This becomes a focal intention of my practice, to observe and explore these relationships. While on a personal scale artistic practice has unlimited possibility, when this scale is pushed beyond the limits of an individual, what is possible?
Media is a direct and immediate way that the creative intention, the idea, or the art can break loose of the boundaries of the individual. Media is a way to immediately network and communicate between one and a whole, affording multiple individuals of different spaces and times access to the creative potential of an individual.
WHAT DOES THE WORK DO?
My work engages the audience in an active manner, offering up an experience. Generating an intimacy.
I use art to explore my relationship as an individual to the greater social whole that affords the essence of my individuality; or as an artist within an institution of paradigms that afford me the opportunity to be an “artist”
In this manner my work begins to functions as a social experiment, testing specific courses of artistic action.
Working intuitively from my social situations and environments, the projects I engage in peek and poke fun at the impossible and the paradoxical. To what extent does the relationship between the artist and the viewer exist? Do new media change this relationship? How?
Scale? Function? Purpose?
In the unknown power of art, lies a fundamental virtue. The idea of possibility and potentiality. The virtual. I use media to explore the essence of the virtual and the relationship it has with the artist and audience.
