Mousetraps 1
2005
mousetraps & printed cards |
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Ouch!
2005
mousetrap & printed card
10x5cm+card |
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Bugger
2005
mousetrap & printed card
10x5cm+card |
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Soixante-neuf
2005
mousetraps & printed card
10c5cm+card |
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Cannibalism
2005
mousetraps & printed card
25x25cm+card |
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Often one asks, ’Can this be art?’ Indeed, it is more difficult today to recognise what art is, as Lars Paalgaard commented to an exhibition jury, ‘If there is anything new and original we probably won’t recognise it’.
Art has no rules or clear and logical alibis for its being.
Art is not constrained by, or dependent on, the factors that govern research. Art can be anything research is not. It can be irresponsible, anarchistic and individualistic. It can shock without apology and overwhelm without proof. It would be artificial to call art research.
We seem to expect of a text more logic and less nonsense than of an image, or is it that there is a greater distance between textual and visual/pictorial logic?
History has shown that no harm comes to art by using more effective tools.
