George Maciunas: Suggest Artist

George Maciunas (1931–1978) established strangely radical modes of presentation in the name of Fluxus. In his view the bulk of the conventional art business—museums, theaters, concert halls, opera houses, and publishers—should cease to exist. Traditional works of art were to be replaced by Fluxus. Art was to be so uncomplicated that it could be realized by anyone, anywhere. New pieces would have their copyrights protected and would be available for the price of a paperback.
Maciunas was a staunch opponent of personal enrichment and came up with spartan solutions for almost every life situation. Despite his tireless efforts, he never achieved his ultimate goal, and he died impoverished and in miserable circumstances.

New Products made today!

Now you're single its time to Mingle! 

Thats right! New prints! A Nicola Fernandes first!!

Please also embrace the New Exclusive 100% unique saying:

Horned like a Unicorn

Made up in my head and now a print for you guys to buy and relish in. 

So lets all get randy and dandy and get mingling at the next Clutter City at Norwich Arts Centre!

Clutter City

Hoorah!! Another Clutter City. 

One week TODAY!

I am currently in the process of making some new products!! 

Birds, Badges and Rump Cushions! 

If you are in the city of Norwich, come down have a peak! 

Sophie Calle: Suggested Artist

Sophie Calle is infact my favorite artist alongside Wolfgang Tillmans and Cy Twombly. 

Adolescent Kitten!

Napoleon has turned into an adolescent plant and wire chewing cat! With the new habit of clawing me!!!

She is driving me mental. But on the plus side she is more talkative which is SUPER cute! and she can now hold a short conversation! Which feeds my slightly mental behaviour! Excellent! 

Stubborn Bassist!

A parting gift for the man I love. Custom Nike iD trainers 1,000,000% unique! Nothing like them in the entirety of the world. And there never will be! Designed by Nicola Fernandes, Made by Nike. Ha.

Design your own at the Nike Official Store.

Get exactly what you want! 

Sophie Calle - A Genius!!

Sophie Calle has filled the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. Over two years later, she distributed the missive to 107 women professionals, photographed them reading it and invited them to analyse it, according to their job...

"At first it was therapy; then art took over. "After I month I felt better. There was no suffering. It worked. The project had replaced the man." She feared he might come back seeking a reconciliation, which would have ruined the whole thing."

Raking through her emotional life for subjects, she has been compared to women artists including Emin and accused of cheap tricks. "Love, life and death - all of that is the most mundane material for artists. It amuses me because people often say, doesn't it bother you to show your private life? I say, well if you ruled out private life, you would have to eliminate all poetry. Victor Hugo, Baudelaire and Verlaine use their emotional life as subject matter. What I'm putting on show is a dumping. All dumping letters are the same, they're unpleasant. This one is neither better or worse than all the rest. It's an aid to a break-up. I don't talk about the man, and all the better. The subject is the letter, the text ... It was the words 'take care of yourself'.

Calle's "method" of dealing with the suffering the world throws at her is to see it all as a game of chance and coincidence, a ritual ripe for exposure on a wall. 

"...It's another way of taking care of myself, a way of turning things around. Instead of being upset about being misinterpreted, I go looking for it, I hope for it, I wait for it. It's the right method, turning things to my advantage in order not to suffer from them."

An Article received from a friend from: the Guardian

Please click the link to read the full article by Angelique Chrisafis

Hello Unit 2 inspiration!

It appears perhaps trying to cover over my emotions with a brave face and pretend that I am fine, is not the way forward other than to embrace my emotional state! Welcome it and make from it. So from this inspiration seen in the modern art gallery in Paris I am going to make shrine type work for my my mind  frame.  I think being honest how I feel is more important than pretending that I am gong to be Okay. Yes, I am borderline obsessive, borderline crazy but Tracey Emin embraced it and perhaps I should get over it too and make light of the situation.

'Ben' - 

In the spirit of Fluxus 

Accumulation, 1965 - 2003

Paris 2010

A trip to escape the emotional day to day reality of being single, an attempt to bring some excitement to my life and replace what I feel with 'him'. See if it is really possible to fill his place with someone else.

The answer: NO. 

It made me miss him more! Gave me time to think that his decision was unjustified and an easy escape. Made me realise how alone I really feel and how much more fun he is than anyone else. 

Although Me and Katie did have a good time, we ate snails and frogs!! The weather was cold!! and it snowed the whole time. It was beautiful! We experienced a little bit of the french culture, saw the Mona Lisa and enjoyed the waiting around and delays... (not) 

The Eurostar, although slowing down because of the ice and causing massive hour long delays each way into and from London St. Pancreas, provided an excellent service and I recommend it! It didn't satisfy me either that our train from London to Norwich had "Locomotive" problems and breaking down causing an even later arrival home, BUT we got home and thats what counts!! 

Trip to the City of Love (minus the Love)

Paris: A trip designed to help get over the exes but failed. 

Maybe the 'city of love' was abit ambitious and abit too cold. 

Flock is coming..

Soon embracing a "Flock" Tattoo behind my ear in emerald green. 

Wont be soo many birds, Only 7.. 

How exciting. 

Bad Stuff/Good Stuff

The beach and outside is generally a great place to hang out. 

Bad Stuff = the association of great days out just hanging out. 

Good stuff = New York City! Hell yeah very good time indeed.

My favourite pictures. 

Eagles of Death Metal

Probably the greatest discovery of band in my entire life time! 

I discovered them years and years ago but still their songs never get old. They sing it well. "The Boys Bad News!" Think there is a lesson to be learnt and to leave my Hillier obsession alone, he's no good really. 

Ta-Dah!

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