Words (Out)

I am a private performance artist making public objects

Among Raymond Williams’ etymological explorations, the word culture is traced to the Latin origin colere, whose meanings ranged from to inhabit, to cultivate, to protect, and to honour with worship. Nouns of a process signifying tending to nature.

An Artist creates intellectual property, which is sometimes manifested in a physical form.

Art is a snapshot of the Artist’s exploration of the world at the time it is made.

Art should change, challenge or enhance the audience’s perception of an entity in the world.

Art is a manifested resolution of an existing contradiction.

Art is articulating your own opinions. Design is articulating other people’s opinions.

Art is being idiosyncratic on a public scale

Mind Over Matter was performed at Birmingham International Festival for Live and Time Based Art in September 2007 following an inaugural performance by Dr Roland C. Miller. This entry acknowledges the conundrum Miller identifies between the act of documentation defeating the value of live performance, and the problem of non-documentation in the context of self-advancement.

Birmingham International Festival for Live & Time Based Art.

1 & 2 September 2007

The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Digbeth, Birmingham, B12 0QH