Quartertonal Prog Elvis, Cafe Abdab, 2006
posted by murmurists at 10:13 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
- 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
- Jape Clogger, Cafe Abdab, 2006
7 Comments:
It reminds me of Judy Garland.
Floyd meets Judy !
Nice refs to 'Animals'. If Floyd be the context, I'm reminded more of the later 'The Final Cut'. Those medals, I suppose, conjur the WWI feeling; and, being resistant to and dispising of, the later 'The Wall', I prefer to leapfrog it and jump on an album I have got time for. The face of the be-medalled figure is, like most of my portraits, an admix of male and female. This one is pretty crude, pretty obvious, I think. But others, for me at least, frankly disturb or make me laugh; usually both at the same time! My favourite! Appreciate your interest.
I think that Judy often hits that androgynous boy/girl spot and that's why I linked her to this. There is something so beautiful and lonely about a boy/girl face I think. There is an underlying tenderness to these pictures in many of them I feel you are trying to convey something deeper. But..perhaps that is just my mind working.
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When you play with identities and genders like that...it is fracturing the body and the core of a person. I'm just thinking aloud here...it is like this huge dichotomy between violence and poignancy that I like. On the one hand..you are symbolically removing someone's face and then..you are giving them a kind of liberation by turning them into someone new. I always want to know who they are...where the pictures were taken...do you know them? It's fascinating.
Sometimes the figure is known; sometimes not. There is, I feel, something generic about images of people - one gets a Google Images feeling after viewing huindreds as I do. But I suspect this is a common reaction - as Google Images and internet browsing is, at bottom, like being in a crowd, looking at asea of faces - different but so very similar, too. I look for something striking or odd in the images I choose - a pose, a facial expression - something perverse; and I most often try hard to retain something of that in the transformed, twisted, comedic end-product. Other times, there is wilfull decapitation; as one head is traded for another; as in Pig Ignorant. As you say Mollie, this is a kind of violence; not without its ideological/ethical implications. Kitaj's 'The Human Clay' whispers in my right ear - for sure; whilst Chris Morris' 'Jam' nibbles at my left. The result is a hybridised reasoning for hybridised creatures.
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