Luxembourgian artist Deborah de Robertis actually transforms painting into performance, by revealing her own vulva in front of some surprised passersby. Just watch (and remember, it’s not safe for work):
http://www.artfido.com/blog/nsfw-performance-artist-reenacts-the-painting-the-origin-of-the-world/

Gustave Corbett 'The Origin of the World'

Jonathan Meese: In art you have to go too far

Tue 10th June

Milda a living work of Art, while working in the sunshine...

 Had a really good tutorial with Brian Chalkley today we watched some Paul Maccarthy and he suggested I look up Jonathan Messe work I went to a show of his in Eastcastle Street a few tears ago. Although I liked the work and his sculptures, I found it all  a bit to political. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoD6wpRooPU crazy but interesting...

 Three sculptures that I have been working on today. I would like to get them photographed better but they still need another day working on them ready for a group crit on Thurs

'Its a Load of Rubbish' Rebecca Molloy & Joshua Raffell

This was a collaboration with Rebecca Molloy @ Chelsea  to see the performance follow the linkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CRyFyC0yKcamtCenktVnZiY0k/edit?usp=sharing

Also we did a second video https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CRyFyC0yKcQk16eU05dzBuNUU/edit?usp=sharing

 It’s a Load Of Rubbish

Press Release

"There is no eloquence without the screaming" Patrick Jones

“People need to believe that order can be glimpsed in the chaos of events.”  John Gray

Artists Rebecca Molloy and Joshua Raffell have collaborated to create a performance piece revolving around newspaper, the body and movement. Set in Trafalgar Square/Hyde Park.

They met at Chelsea College of Art and Design studying MA Fine Art and will graduate in 2014. It became apparent early on that they shared similar interests in their own art practice dealing with issues around the human body, obsession, shame, abstraction and the hybrid.

The work was inspired by Les Krims, Marvin Gay Chetywynd and Pina Bausch. They also watched a series of documentaries and films relating to obsession, mania, suffering and popular culture such as The Human Centipede and documentaries of Ted Bundy, which influenced a room of madness and chaos.

Covering a shared studio in newspapers to create an immersive installation, the artists wanted to create works that came from the process of dialogue and spontaneity. Through the process of play and uncertainty the artists created a suspended reality, which involved characters, arguments, dance and role-play. Taking this a step further by creating outfits that not only absorbed the surrounding but also changed the way they related to the environment. This allowed the artists to explore obsessions, environments and the creations of realities, which also explored capitalism, greed and consumerism.

The performance using disregarded newspaper seemed to transform into an elegant and beautiful interpretation, an unlikely finale from the chaos that ensued in the studio. Like children playing the artists allowed the knowledge to be absorbed for a very fluid and visceral outcome. Leaving the interpretation open to the viewer. The performance at Trafalgar Square will be an adaptation of the original.

Rebecca Molloy - MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design
www. rebeccamolloy.com
Molloy’s practice is concerned with the manufacturing of new environments from the
combination of bodies, objects and spaces. The work is predominantly formed of
paintings, installation, film and sculpture to create an immersive and alternative
understanding of the human form.With an aesthetic of expressionist painterliness, combined with a collage like approach
to installation, the work seeks to understand the relationships between traditional mark
making, contemporary understanding of images and our perceptions of reality. Molloy’s
practice also flips between the dialogue of representation and abstraction as way to
explore the body in space. As Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote: “it is only through the body
that we can truly experience space”
Recent Exhibitions include Repre Residency, DegreeArt London (2013), Creative
Quarter, London (2013) and she will be artist in residence at the Trelex Residency,
Switzerland, (2015)

Joshua Raffell – Ma Fine Art Chelsea Collage of Art and Design
http://joshuaraffellart.blogspot.co.uk
Raffells work deal with shame and taboo. By Pushing the boundaries the things that he would normally find uncomfortable in doing so questioning the tolerance of both himself and the audience. Accepting   imperfection and embracing difference.
Recent shows, “…to debauch and courrupt” Brazier Park(2014), Cult Mountain (2014), Sluice (2013) with a solo show in August @ studio1.1

Tune In Next Week

My second Animation which I had no narative for but created the set and then just let the figures dictate what happens. I was inspired by Pina Bausch Lilly of the Valley...

I love Dance and the first ever Ballet was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' By Ballet Rambert it was inspired by the Hieronymus Bosch Painting which I love and has inspired my work.

to watch the animation follow this link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CRyFyC0yKcVWswN08wZUhhUnM/edit?usp=sharing

I really want to develop animation and Video performance. One way of doing this is by taking characters and developing them into even more bizarre and crazy performances allowing the work to feed from its-self and to really push the work until it becomes ambiguous.

I'm also inspired by Paul MacCarthy http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/20/paul-mccarthy/biography/

The music and sound was created by my Nephew Ricky Kyle.

@ The Art Car Boot Sunday 8th June

Patrick Brill Bob & Roberta Smith 

 Went to the Art Car Boot behind the old Truman Brewery Brick Lane. Bumped into Hilary(Leytonstone arts trail) which was really nice. Then caught up with Kate Knight which is always a pleasure, with stunning work. Polly Morgan had sold out...

Entertainment 

Is that Kirsty Alsop?

Vincent Van Gough

& other arty types...

Would have liked to have had a look...
 

Yasmin & Soonyoung 

Danbi looking cool...

Ryan & Bec

Bec & Kelly

A knitted flower in this tree...

Walk home from Brick lane through Victoria park...

Along the canal interesting Graffiti,

Dave looking fab...

This was really interesting, does anybody know who  this artist is...

Across the Olympic park

Under the A12 and nearly home...

Essence a group show by Emily Kathryn Stevens

The Birds Nest Pub near CreekSide

ESSENCE  group show by Emily Kathryn Stevens

Went to Deptford to see Emilys group show  This show brings together a group of observant artists who all create work that humanity destines us to connect with. By embracing a similar bond, such as nostalgia or loss in our practice, we are reflecting on the core of our existence. By observing human nature, we observe ourselves - learning deeper into our understanding of our surroundings.
Text from the show press release

Emily Stevens

Emily Stevens 

The bottom line Deptford

'Here, the other side' APT Gallery

I also visited Apt Gallery http://www.aptstudios.org/gallery/ I particularly liked a written text by Sarah Duffy 'Surplus Matter' I dream that this person never died at all, that they were a fraud. When they come back they always reject me and they disappear again. This sense of rejection is deep and ancient; it is a bodily form of rejection, and by this I mean that I feel ejected, like surplus matter, thrown away somehow like an awkward heap of bones and muscle and blood. It's like the frozen posture of a statue after it's briefly awoken and then forced back into impenetrable silence. its the puppet that after brief fervent period of animation returns to its limp posture, hunched and waiting. when i wake up, i become frozen; i'm that limp puppet waiting for activation and for the reassurance of human hands. I become the stuffed childhood animal that lies at the back of it's masters wardrobe plotting its revenge, angry and hurt that i've been forgotten.

This lone house amongst the industrial buildings ...