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John Cage

John Cage

Tying all of Cage’s life work together, including the visual, is the Zen principle of non-attachment (Nekkhamma). Chance operations offered a path of “right intention” for Cage to relinquish control over his compositions, releasing its expressive possibilities into the universe and away from the narrow proprietary authority embedded in Western notions of the Artist handed down from Romanticism (and not coincidentally capitalism as well). Non-attachment underlies Cage’s embrac

Paul Valinski

Paul Valinski

"Paul Villinski was born and raised in Maine before moving to New York City in 1982. He received a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. A pilot of sailplanes and paragliders himself, Villinski includes many indications of soaring flight in his sculptures. His concern for environmental issues is reflected in hia materials—discarded items re-purposed in surprising and poetic ways. Villinski has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and

Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn

Title: Too much - Too much Artist: Thomas Hirschhorn Venue: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle Date: October 3 – December 5, 2010 Images courtesy of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2010/10/thomas-hirschhorn-at-museum-dhondt-dhaenens/ Below is information - a press release - directly copied from the website above. It was suggested I look at this artist in response to my last group tutorial, looking at Leave(s) installation and we were talking

Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie

One of the artists mentioned in my recent crit session for the installation "Leave(s)" was Jim Lambie. Although our works look completely different and we're doing different things, the artist came up after the question around whether or not I had included too many works in the one or whether I could amplify the work by adding even more layers. I was struck initially by Lambie's installation piece titled 'Train in Vain' (2008) and the components of which resembled those I had

David Shrigley

David Shrigley

Images: http://davidshrigley.com/ I suppose you could say you know when I'm making a sculpture of a woman doing a poo (laughs) thats something you know "it's very much about the human condition ladedadeda"... but there's also something obviously very childish about it aswell... Some of his work seems a bit like a young male teenager's response to the world which I find hard to connect to, but then there are plenty other examples of his work which do appeal to me. I appreciate

Khvay Samnang

Khvay Samnang

"Samnang cow taxi moves sand" 2014 Video Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia Arts centre Victoria Curator of "Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia", Dr Steven Tonkin, writes in the exhibition catalogue, Samnang "is one of the leading Cambodian artists to have come to international attention over the last decade". Tonkin say the artist "critiques the unstoppable momentum of urban development around Phnom Penh, such as the forc

Moe Satt

Moe Satt

Moe Satt "Hands Around in Yangon, 2012 Video Shown as part of exhibition: "Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia" Victorian Arts Centre According to Dr Steven Tonkin, who writes in the book accompanying the exhibition, "Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia", Moe Satt has "begun to transform the contemporary art scene in Myanmar" (formerly Burma). He is self taught and primarily uses his body, although now he is also including

Kacey Wong

Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

"Do Ho Suh (b.1962, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity." www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/do-ho-suh/press_release/0/artist_sel

Anya Gallaccio

Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs

I'm so impressed with this artist's website that I've pretty much copied it (thanks Francis - hope you don't mind). Actually there are some of his works that inspire me too. In particular the work (screenshot from the video) above title "Painting/Retoque". The video begins with text saying "From the 3rd to the 5th of November 2008, 60 medium strips erased by the passage of time, were repainted in the former Panama Canal Zone. What follows is the recording of the action... of