Announcing an exhibition with no digital content..
I recently gave a talk at the Computer Arts Society showing some of the ways
I've tried to digitise human movement. This installation puts things back in
the real world for a while as it tries to find a productive answer to one of
our very few elemental questions.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Tom Kemp
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THE DEFINITION OF ART
by Tom Kemp
August 9 - 27
OVADA Gallery
21 Gloucester Green
Oxford OX1 2AQ
01865 201 782
www.ovada.org.uk
Tue 10 - 5
Wed 10 - 5
Thu 10 - 8
Fri 10 - 5
Sat 11 - 4
I'll be in the gallery on Saturday 20 August to discuss the show and its
implications.
Here's some blurb:
How can an artist try to define art? Surely, that's the job of philosophers
and art critics and anyone else who feels they can stand outside art.
Definitions are (by definition, of course) saying what the end of something
is: up to this point you have art; step over that line and you donıt. It
must be in artistsı interests to have no boundaries and in commentatorsı
interests to be able to say art, actually, isn't everything so Iım able to
pursue something more importantı.
Iım worried that few artists feel happy about getting down to brass tacks:
ıwhat exactly is it I do and how does that compare to everyone else who
claims to be creating art?. On the other hand, most artists don't get too
involved in writing. It's a terrifying medium in its complexity and ubiquity
and sheer power of being able to be understood. Then thereıs all the
background reading to make sure that anything you do say hasnıt been said
before and isnıt obviously vapid or rubbish. There just isnıt time to be in
two professions at once; let the thinkers rumble on about history and
hermeneutics while the artists struggle for relevance and respect.
However, I am fixated on writing. I truly wonder at its seductions. To
exist, writing has to be made, physically, but once itıs there, it slips
about all over the place to the point where the original, written thing is
nowhere to be seen. Look at a piece of writing and you'll read it if at all
possible or youıll see a set of insignificant (but pretty) marks. I'm always
wondering what writing has to hide. What, in fact, is it?
THE DEFINITION OF ART is a daily-changing installation in the new OVADA
Gallery in Oxford. It will do its best to get to grips with art, writing
and, indeed, the concept of getting to grips withı. The techniques are old
and strange but will perfectly illustrate the problems which cause me so
much trouble. If you want to see a new kind of art or argue that youıve seen
it all before, come to the Ovada Gallery in Oxford from 9th to 27th August.
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