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The Art of the Apocalypse featured in the Trinity College ResearchMATTERS Magazine
Self-Portrait as Sentient Autonomous Robot
Self-Portrait of the Artist as Zombie
“The (Un)Conspiracy Manifesto” by Luther Blissett.
“The (Un)Conspiracy Manifesto: Unplugged” by Luther Blissett.
THE LOST ART OF ZOMBIE-JITSU
ZombieJistu: Self-Defense for the Zombie Apocalypse
Self-Portrait of the Artist as Fakey the Cat
This is Not a Video
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. […] Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Jean Baudrillard: “Simulacra and Simulation”
Ordained in the Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster
“It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings…”
— H. P. Lovecraft (1926)
An Accumulation of Spectacles
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”
— Guy Debord
This little demonstration shows how our minds can be fooled. And also… Marilyn Monroe was murdered. #IamNOTaCAT.
Art Must be True
“You construct fake news broadcasts on video camera… And you scramble your fabricated news in with actual news broadcasts… [Y]ou can advertise the fact that you are writing news in advance and trying to make it happen by techniques which anybody can use. And that makes you NEWS. And a TV personality as well, if you play it right .”
— William S. Burroughs
How do we define fake? Something which does not exist? Or something which is other than what it proclaims to be? A fake knife can still draw real blood. What is the potential of the “fake” to have “real” consequences? At what point will “fake news” rule the world? Is there such a thing as fake art? Either all art is fake; or none is.
The 2nd (C)amendment
Video documentation of a work-in-progress performance of the 2nd (C)amendment at the Instytut Kultury IKONA in Warsaw. 2019.
FakeArtist presents: artist-in-residence
“artist-in-residence” was a 24 hour public performance and the expression of a sustained contemplation on the contemporary social struggle of homelessness through durational performance art, followed by an audio/visual sculptural installation exhibition. “artist-in-residence” was part of FakeArtist’s month-long residency at The Guesthouse in Cork, Ireland.
This work focused on modes of representation in depicting the relationship between the material (sculpture/modified readymades) and the experiential/performative.
It sought to create a socially engaged performative space in which to accentuate the potential of performance art to critique or subvert power mechanisms in everyday life.
Merry Christmas from FakeArtist
