3.3.15
Sam Curtis Lecture, Sheffield Hallam University 2015
Didn't Call himself an artist.
Did normal people jobs.
Charity man.
Scepticism. Load of bollocks.
Why are you making the art?
Who are you making art for?
Radical Fishmongery.
Sent letters to No. 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace for residency.
How will an artist operate in a controlled environment?
Parasitic relationship.
Residency (uninvited) at Harrods.
Stealth art practice.
Art that avoids art framing.
Mark McGowan eating swans.
Studeied at Goldsmiths.
Symbiotic to Parasitic relationship.
On the fishy counter.
Didn't document much.
Lots of tourists taking photos of everything.
Sent in friends pretending to be tourists to document.
Practice of fish display.
Like an open studio.
Different fish every day.
Introducing narrative.
Drawing inspiration from the baroque feel of Harrods.
Abstract expressionist flat fish section. Like a fishy Jackson Pollock.
Like a stage made of fish.
Cilla Black. Dropped in Blind Date references in conversation.
Personas can be a coping mechanism in life.
Jamiroquai likes crab claws.
This is the return of the space crab boy, interplanetary shell, fish zone. *see Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy*
Are you complicit in your own downfall?
Weekender.
Non-productive residency based on the social.
Residency for artists with responsibility.
Kinda like taxidermy but edible.
Can fish be art?
Where can art exist?
Cheesemongery?!
Fuck art I'm going to monger cheese.
Langoustines holding hands.
Four-way sea bass kiss.
Seymour Art Collective.
Homeless artists.
Homeless people living in IKEA.
Performances inside IKEA.
Hidden objects for people to find.
Who are we?
What is this?
Cameron and the big society.
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