HELTER, then SKELTER
posted by murmurists at 11:36 am
Monday, July 17, 2006
About Me
- Name: murmurists
- Location: Cafe Abdab, City of Dis, United Kingdom
Anthony Donovan is an artist, musician, composer, improviser and writer based in England. He works solo, either as Murmurists or under his own name, and is associated with projects such as Destroyevsky, Ou_pi Golgotha.undead, Spidey Agutter and the.clinamen. An ardent collaborator, he has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Jochen Arbeit, Geoff Leigh, PAS, Steve Beresford and Damo Suzuki. Donovan co-curates the respected labels Classwar Karaoke and suRRism-Phonoethics with Jaan Patterson. His interests are all either obscure or opaque, but morally authentic.
Contact:
dr.anthony_donovan@yahoo.com
Here Abouts
- egg `omlette\[sic]
- Ray Gosling
- Goya Device
- Goya Device
- VORTICIST
- unfinish Jarman
- Cat Bells / Maiden Moor / High Spy
- inchscape
- Alt Disney, Cafe Abdab, 2006
- Kitajist
5 Comments:
Thank {minion} - glad you are entertained. I appreciate your comments. I suppose, in some obvious sense, I intend them to be inexplicable; so words are not the issue. Inexplicable sounds grand, though; maybe they are just frippery, and (mildly) undeserving of captions....
They are messages of a certain kind - they are meant to prick certain things, and to provoke certain things. I am light of intention - mostly - but the aim is serious! Surrealism / black comedy ... thereabouts
I love the fun of this. I'm not even so enthralled with the contrast between the bell and person...but the bell and the sofa makes me grin like a Cheshire Cat. Something so mundane and so 'suburban' and so dull against the lush shine of a bell. Full of Christmas promise.
Also...I'm sure that people 'sit' for a photograph and always...we do take it seriously don't we? Whatever the photo might be. And to push a bell on their head takes away their intent.
I'm reminded of that Vic and Bob sketch - from Smell of, I think - where Vic has a bucket on his head, Bob hits it, removes it, and Vic has a bucket-shaped head! Lovely stuff! For me, it's the idea of a Goth with that addition of perverse humour. Goths are funny and have humour. But, like Germans, are often cited as incapable of raising a smile. Again, smiling is political. For a Goth and for a German smiling is uber-political! Get smiling!
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