James of Maidstone
posted by murmurists at 2:10 pm
Tuesday, July 11, 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
- Helvellyn via Striding Edge
- recon picture of southern Iraq
- ALH840001
- towards the making of a brick shithouse
- tor
- editional/warm agency/fuzzy
- Arrangement of Senses
- monkey see, monkey do
- WOLF EYES in toto, as of July 2006
- Treveena
3 Comments:
Looks like Arthur Kane on a bad (or is that a good?) night.
There is something very poignant about someone being completely 'gone' - we laugh at her but really...we remember all the times we've ended up in that state and how it makes us cringe with embarrassment. I think much humour is created from embarrassment and humiliation. Ain't it great?
I wonder if that comes from human experience? Grayson Perry said that it wasn't just the dressing up in women's clothes that he liked...he wanted the humiliation of being a 'little girl' - that was part of it.
She looks like she wants attention - again, a mask of make-up. The sexualised symbolism of red lips (god I wear so much red lipstick...what does that say about me?)and garish eyes but the softness and fragility of being alive and losing control. Sometimes the clown does really cry. But...she likes to go on a really freaky, enjoyable journey before she does so. Hurrah for losing control!
And...because she's really a man..it kind of adds to that representation of what is humiliation and what is not. Why should a reproduction of 'woman' be inherently laughable. I say...live and let live. I think all boundary breaking is interesting and fun.
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