Artist – entrepreneur. ‘model worker’ of today?

Work?

Working as reading, and reading as working but mainly regarding deconstruction.

            Climate catastrophe is inevitable, therefore what is the point in making any art or things that might be kept? Its all going to be completely superfluous soon.

Either I make art that is completely involved in our terror as humans, ultimately doing nothing other than stating the obvious, or making people do something, in a totally hypocritical way. Or I stop doing anything and work for charity. Oh my god, existential nightmare.

 

The fear, or apathy and passivity to change is a frustrating endemic that is intrinsic to the way in which our society has developed. How can art represent, or present this fear?

 

Constructing an installation made of things we may no longer need when ‘climate change’ proper occurs. Like…say we’re flooded – we would need a boat. No this is silly. Maybe the idea is to try and represent the blindedness to the eventuality that we feel, and that is a construction of terror. So my idea to construct a kind of dam, in which there is no ‘other side’ – even though you know it is there, it has to be there. You are incapable of seeing it.

 

Sketches would involve –

 

Could be a soundscape, that involves a pitch and volume building up to an unnerving, unbearable silence.

 

Interested in implying a sense of saturation, overwhelmingness, lack of idyl, lack of activity – massive paradox of change and stasis. What is the point? I would like there to be a dialogue within my art shows, a dialogue about what art might be, and can be, and the many different concepts intersecting and challenging each other. So – social points, climate change, nihilism and existential torture. Vs (and perhaps emphasized by) art for arts sake. Freedom, apathy, beauty, comfort, stasis