Richard, Basingstoke, 46
posted by murmurists at 10:37 pm
Tuesday, July 25, 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
- Elvis wig
- Gary, Milton Keynes, 39
- Pauline from Hull, 36
- bubblist
- tetchy inard
- disparati sic/word [up] word [down]
- Eno-Ob-Scene-O, Cafe Abdab, 2006
- LEIGH BOWRY
- Alison, Colchester
- TROPE
2 Comments:
There's something quite sad about this. Sometimes..it is so hard to disguise the fact that you are disguised. In many ways, we are dishonest in the fact that we disguise ourselves in subtle ways, such as hiding our true feelings. Hiding our personalities. But here, the hiding becomes the focus, the slow point of his turning world. You know, it is the man underneath that is calling out, not the clothes or wig. That's what makes it a bit sad for me. But, he is smiling.
Entirely right, I think. I've been looking again at Cindy Sherman recently. Not seen her stuff since uni, I suppose. I love her Hans Bellmar-type body parts things the most. It struck me I had buried an influence that was there in my own work. Seeing her stuff again made me feel like making more extreme, more engaged, portraits of some kind of private underbelly - filled with the half-knowable things and sensations you cite, Mollie. As a first-ish step, I tried these TV portraits - seeing how far I can investigate and twist what that lifestyle choice could mean and be taken to mean. I think this is a rich area. Similiarly, I reviewed a film I have of Leigh Bowry recently. Between those two nodes, I am inserting these portraits.
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