BA Critical Fine Art Practice, Brighton University
A new sculptural work by the artist Joshua T Howell; 'Like, Something to do with the Large Hadron Collider yeah?!'. A stock recording of a group of men laughing plays through a horn speaker directly towards a 'joke' on wood ratchet strapped to a pile of art, on some wood.
The piece sort of kind of maybe like explores autonomy and tries to push the idea of inclusion/exclusion of an audience. By creating a work that is self gratifying (the artwork laughs at it's own joke) the work perhaps asks where an audience stands in relation to the work. With it's own set of seemingly oblique half references the piece seeks to make an audience decide on a position, the in crowd or the out, those who 'get it' or those who don't.
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