Third Year BA Art Practice, Goldsmiths
Octuplets 2008-2009
Metal, glass, wiring, semen
8 small baby food jars filled with human semen from various male donors kept frozen in a small ice cream display freezer and titled after the "Octuplets".
Chris Woltman
Anonymous
Anonymous
Alex Fear
George Ellis
Loren Fink
Louis Rodriguez
Steven Rau
To me, this work is about action and the future.
To many others it may be about many other things...
The story surrounding Nadia Suleiman and her octuplet saga might showcase the diffusion of plastic surgery and invetrofertilization as a type of surface level, first wave genetic engineering that marks a new accelerated shift in the evolution of the human species. These scenarios question where such phenomena as mass media imaging and hyperconsumerism will ultimately achieve new popular norms as they merge into the biological structure of humanity.
modern art, a lot of wank?
The permanantly reproached notion that an artwork should inspire social discourse around moraly progressive questions, and that through these aspirations it achieves the status of being an enlightening, therefore, valuable object.
And finally, the merits of using methods of sensationalism (such as the pedestrian tactic of sexual expose') to capture attention for critical redirection in a case that fosters a claim against these very same modes of engagement.
In art I've sought an interaction between certain concerns which would be loosely categorized by the three sections above as social context, artistic obligation, and inherent medium. A resulting dialogue has played out with relative uniformity of focus in regards to these ideas and has led me to the adoption of a term, Postmedia Folk, of which my current artworks, including the Octuplets!, fall under.
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