CHARLIE HEBDON’T
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Occasionally it seems there might be some kind of counter-performance art organisation, one that actively does everything it can to bring performance art into disrepute.…
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LOW ART, FAILED ART
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Some reflections on the mainstream versus the highbrow by David Foster Wallace, from his collection of non-fiction A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.…
WINNING THE WAR, LOSING THE BATTLES
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On Monday of this week I was thinking– with some satisfaction and serenity– that for some time I’d seen nothing but reasonable, factual press releases…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE: DOG LOVERS SPECIAL
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Dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism. All real! Oh how I wish they weren’t. In this super special…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE S3E5: AURATIC
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“HI K8, H8 UR WORK” Dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism. All real, all serious, all horribly written.…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE S3E4: PREPOSTAPOCALYPTIC
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OOO BONDAGE UP YOURS! Dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism. All real, all serious, all horribly written. I…
WHEN CRITICS ATTACK
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MOMA COMPLETELY BJÖRKS UP I’ve often compared the art world to the mafia, with their mutual general secrecy, their deliberate cultivation of mystique, and their…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE S3E3: VOCABULARY
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“I’M SORRY, HE’S FROM BARCELONA” Dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism. All real, all serious, all horribly written.…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE S3E2: INSTRUMENTALIZED
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Dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism. All real, all serious, all horribly written. I apologise in advance for…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE 3: SUPER COP
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S3E1: CONTEMPLATIVE Yes, it’s back. Even more dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism, this time with a police…
“LUDICROUS ANALOGUE NOSTALGIA”
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I’ve been saying for years that old projectors and other modernist paraphernalia in art galleries are tropes, affectations, bourgeois set dressing rather than meaningful vehicles…
METASTUPID
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The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is having an intellectual navel-gazing session and a nice jolly for boring people who work at universities a symposium called…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE: VECTORS
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More dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism. This is the last one for the time being, but I’ll…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE: DIRECTRIXES
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More dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism every week, except when I don’t do them every week. This…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE: TACTILITY
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More dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism every week, except when I don’t do them every week. Do…
ARTBOLLOCKS THEATRE: DESUBJECTIVIZATION
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More dramatic readings of the worst artist statements, gallery press releases and art criticism every week, except when I don’t do them every week. This…
THE ARTISTS FORMERLY KNOWN AS ARTISTS
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Oscillating between ham and lettuce, this work investigates the fundamental dichotomy of the “hand made” and the mass produced commodity object. This artist’s work has…
ARTBOLLOCKS PANORAMA
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“And so, faced with demands of balance and social adaptation, I oppose the claimed neurosis and dysfunctional logic…” The interest in Artbollocks Theatre has been…
THE INSUBSTANTIAL IN PURSUIT OF THE INSUFFERABLE
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Following her recent ouroboros of star-fuckery with Jay-Z at his minstrel show for New York city’s art royalty, insufferable has-been and exploiter/abuser of low paid…
HE’S A CELEBRITY, GET HIM OUT OF HERE
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There’s a frequently heard complaint in contemporary art galleries: “He can’t even draw. My five year old could do better.” Usually they’re perfectly and excruciatingly…
