Pig Ignorant, outside Cage Abdab, 2006
posted by murmurists at 10:14 pm
Sunday, July 02, 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
- Quartertonal Prog Elvis, Cafe Abdab, 2006
- Eno-Ob-Scene-O, Cafe Abdab, 2006
- J.G. Power-Ballard, outside Cafe Abdab, 2006
- prepared piano
- Heidegger's Glasses
- Pig Ignorant, Cafe Abdab, 2006
- petrol-stinking ballot-box
- GOLGOTHA
- double-bind
- Chuck Norris
5 Comments:
I like this one very much.
What appeals please? - both of you...
Thanks {minion}. Interesting reactions. There is, to be sure, on the one hand, an interest in fetishism - in all its manifestations and connotations (ie. sexual, political, consumerist, etc.), and, on the other, a degree of irreverance on my part, in much the way you describe. The Pig Ignorant series stems from a joke me and certain friends (Bill and Dave) confected between us one time; discussing a kind of generic character/ caricature we could use in our performances; an analogue, as it were, for certain sad little human traits. Bill photographed me in a pig mask and made a rather fine painting of the same photograph, which hangs on the wall in Cafe Abdab. Pig Ignorant was to be 'on stage' microwaving bacon, for one thing - which was Bill's idea; thus, we supposed, symbolising - through satire - the self-destructive side of people. Marshall McLuhan's notion of technological society being essentially canibalistic was a kind of sidebar to this reasoning. But our intention was a bare-arsed rough dada rather than didactic social commentary. And so I moved away, and Pig Ignorant because rendered-down into a one-line quip; intention being to raise a chuckle when Bill and Dave gander at my blog. I do like the images over and above that, though. As you say - masks....
Yes...I agree with you...I like graveyards very much. I like to sit at the graves of people from long ago..which have no flowers. The places where no-one visits. The loneliness of death but the release of it too. I like to wonder what the people underneath were like and how, many years later..all is left is the transience of grass. I like the contrast between that and the life affirming body of a woman leaning against the grave. I like the shinylifeforce that PVC/leather creates against a natural piece of stone. I, too, like masks. And the quasi-natural notion of a pig against something man-made like PVC - but it's not a pig...it's a simulacrum of a pig. So, there are all sorts of ideas going on for me. Yes...it is the contrast, the clash of ideologies.
But..I do like many of the pictures here. Don't always comment...but do like them very much.
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