-
A thing is happening.
-
Beauty's at work through
pure and selfless acceptance,
-
through everyday transcendence
that remedies the chaos,
-
an antidote to the sorrow
on this earth for eternity.
-
Music heard so deeply
that it is not heard at all.
-
You are the music while the music lasts.
-
Insist on beauty in spite of everything.
-
Decorum.
-
As I'm walking, I see
you on your motorbike.
-
I can see your blue eyes
and nose peering underneath
-
the crash helmet.
-
And it's not you.
-
It's just a man that looks like you.
-
I'm disappointed every time.
-
Every time I see a man on a motorbike,
I think it's my dad.
-
I'm not sure why this is.
-
Sometimes I forget
what your bike looks like.
-
Everyone's eyes and faces
look the same underneath
-
black crash helmets.
-
From a distance, everyone looks like you.
-
Although soon I realize it's not.
-
I remember you used
to paint pictures of naked women
-
in crash helmets.
-
Their identities were hidden too.
-
I always wondered who these women were,
-
their shiny black round heads
like lollipops.
-
Props.
-
Who were they, dad?
-
(inhales softly)
-
(exhales softly)
-
(silence)
-
Breath.
-
(approaching footsteps)
-
A laughing heart...
-
Your life is your life.
-
Don't let it be clubbed into submission.
-
Be on the watch.
There are ways out.
-
There's light somewhere.
-
It may not be much light,
but it beats the darkness.
-
Be on the watch.
-
The gods will offer you chances.
-
Know them. Take them.
-
You can't beat death,
but you can beat death in life sometimes.
-
And the more often you learn to do it,
-
the more light there will be.
-
Your life is your life.
-
Know it while you have it.
-
You are marvelous.
-
The gods wait to delight in you.
-
Rascal was a wildcat
when it was four degrees outside.
-
When I moved in she'd stand
with me in winter and rain,
-
sleep with me, mostly outside.
-
Hunter, I never tried to break her spirit.
-
Hit by a car in front of me.
-
I was shocked.
-
I buried her by cat litter and wild food,
-
her sunshine place
could only dig the stones
-
because of city sewage pipes
about three or four feet.
-
I wish it was deeper, next to keep
other animals from digging her up.
-
When I find stones, I'll cover up
-
[inaudible] begin to swell.
-
If so, I'll put more soil on top.
-
First, cat and friend.
-
Hi. Yeah.
-
I saw you last night. Hmm.
-
I was in the club. Yup.
-
I saw who you were with too.
-
She was holding you so tight.
-
Because she knows you want me.
-
Oh, naw. She can't love you.
-
She can't love you like I do.
-
I said to myself that
you must be out of your mind.
-
You were there with somebody else.
-
You know you're wasting your time.
-
Oh, no.
-
But she can't love you.
-
She can't love you like I do.
-
You're missing my beat
and I'm needing your moves.
-
Let's give it one more try.
Let's get back in the groove.
-
Because she can't love you.
-
She can't love you like I do.
-
When I was younger,
my father was the producer
-
of a transvestite troupe
and it seemed a dream for me
-
to be able to observe
what was behind the curtain.
-
I think this is when it all started,
while growing up.
-
I kept on searching
for this feeling of wonder,
-
this taste for metamorphosis.
-
I direct speak of cabarets,
shows, or even strange.
-
From video to another,
off the same protagonist progresses
-
in this mysterious
and phantasmagorical universe.
-
I consider my videos as living paintings.
-
I use the camera
as a painter with his brushes.
-
What could my world be made of?
-
Red. Green. Blue.
-
Red. Green. Blue.
-
Red. Green. Blue.
-
If you want to turn yourself
into a proud samurai warrior,
-
you need the katana samurai sword.
-
This high-quality plastic weapon
is a Japanese long sword
-
which will look just perfect
with your traditional Japanese hakama
-
and the traditional Japanese geta.
-
And add the finishing touch
to your Asian outfit:
-
the black and gold katana samurai sword
-
comes with a matching black scabbard
-
so it can be stored safely.
-
The Japanese sword
will protect you in fights
-
and is sure to make you
an eye-catcher in any party.
-
Size length, 105 centimeters.
-
Blade length, 70 centimeters.
-
Material, plastic.
-
Yeah, so... a couple years ago
-
a bunch of us went down to the beach
-
and we got there and coast guards running
-
all up and down the sand like,
"You can't get in the water."
-
You know?
Screaming at us.
-
So we waited a bit and they went
further down the beach
-
and then we decided we would go.
-
Like, what the fuck?
Why did we come here?
-
So my buddy went down there and he's like,
-
"All good, come down here, man."
-
So I walked over and we looked down.
-
And we couldn't see it
from where we were parked,
-
but when we looked down,
we were really close,
-
you looked down and there
just all these fucking jellyfish.
-
Like, one every... like all over the place.
-
One every two or three feet.
-
And from where we were standing,
you couldn't really tell
-
if they were living or dead, you know?
-
'Cause some of them were still moving,
-
but then others were just totally limp.
-
So... tell me what it's like
growing up in Singapore.
-
Well, we had... I had
these really magnificent memories
-
of my childhood.
-
We had these magnificent playgrounds.
-
There was, like, these big watermelons.
-
I remember I used to climb
to the top of the watermelon
-
and I'd rub myself on the ridges
-
to give myself pleasure.
-
You think we could fall
in love on the internet?
-
No.
-
'Cause it wouldn't be love.
It'd just be porn.
-
I don't think so.
-
Seen from a distance,
almost everything looks beautiful.
-
As the distance increases,
the more you romanticize.
-
All the small details from
the everyday reminisces the past.
-
Because things we want to forget
are the things we can never forget.
-
DO IT!
-
JUST DO IT!
-
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
-
Yesterday you said tomorrow.
-
So just DO IT!
-
Make your dreams come true!
-
Just DO IT!
-
Some people dream of success
while you're gonna wake up
-
and work hard at it!
-
Nothing is impossible.
-
You should get to the point
where anyone else would quit
-
and you're not gonna stop there.
-
No, what are you waiting for?
-
DO IT!
-
Just... DO IT!
-
Yes, you can!
-
Just do it.
-
If you're tired of starting over,
stop giving up.
-
Emerging gaming technologies
operate within a nexus
-
of social relationships that
characterize the modern world.
-
These technologies enable
a constant commentary
-
which has become
the quintessential quality of power,
-
often operating as mechanisms
that dictate our action
-
and pre-ordain our expectations.
-
The work interrogates
the cultural logic of feedback
-
as a metaphor and material condition.
-
It is live, cybernetic, reactive.
-
Sensory data translated
through visual and tactile apparatus.
-
Disillusion of the virtual
and corporeal boundary,
-
reorienting perspective of the existing
and the alternative space and time.
-
An avatar in symbiosis with the subject,
-
taking the lead in a continuous loop
of action and reaction.
-
We're surrounded by forms.
-
Yet it's still so elusive, right?
-
You know, sometimes it feels
like we fill that void between us
-
with something that grows slowly,
-
like it's overtaking us or something.
-
Through the way we speak,
or what we do,
-
where we put stuff around us,
-
even the stances we inhabit
or the faces we make
-
or even the body parts, you know?
-
The food we eat. Whatever.
-
Sometimes it gets heavier, you know?
-
Or more light, but
it's like all the distinctions
-
are starting to melt away.
-
The forms, the resemblances,
the symmetries,
-
the repetitions, the patterns.
-
Patterns that we know we have always had,
-
that have always been there
and we're not sure why.
-
And now... the outside looks
more and more like the images
-
that were contained in us
since the beginning.
-
Hi. Thank you for waiting.
-
We've been running
a little bit behind today.
-
Right.
-
As you know, we've taken a few readings
-
and these get sent away.
-
We have a look at them.
We meet, a group of us.
-
Many years of experience.
-
We have a look and we see what we can see.
-
Does that make sense?
-
If I ju--
-
If you just have a look here, really...
-
The system's really slow,
so it's a case of monitoring.
-
And you monitoring
and you just letting us know
-
if you notice anything unusual.
-
Would you be able to do this?
-
Hmm?
-
You have any questions?
-
Double.
-
Double-sided.
-
Minds. Different paths.
-
One runs after sunlight,
one follows the rising moon.
-
They either congregate,
connect, intersect, touch,
-
unite at sunset for eclipses...
-
play and then separate
for long interstices.
-
Later, re-enacting past meetings
forever lost in repetition.
-
Ebb and flow, edging closer.
-
Expanding warmth.
-
That point just before the pressure bursts.
-
Capillary rush.
-
Tension. Resisting.
-
Each muscle, each limb,
each breath under control for now.
-
Questions of limitations
dissolve into the blur.
-
Eyes open, but horizons fall away.
-
The burn increases now.
-
(Shia grunts)
-
The pain sensors...
-
one of you escapes, but I pull you back.
-
Heh. Duality.
-
Existing only as a whole.
-
Weakened by quivering joints.
-
Lungs push for release,
a struggle to hold on.
-
Control surrendered, suspended in dullness.
-
Eyes close.
-
Now numb.
-
Running, reaching, falling,
skipping, turning, sliding, walking.
-
These are all words
that describe ways of moving.
-
Each action is packed
with many micro-movements.
-
It's hard for us to recognize
these small movements individually.
-
When describing how to walk,
we use the simplest terms possible
-
and struggle to explain all
the mechanics of a simple movement.
-
Understanding body movement
in the terms of everyday language
-
should be simple, however
our muscle memory takes over
-
for our brain and our body
becomes a strange system
-
of levers and pulleys
that maneuver by our command.
-
She sits.
-
I squirt toothpaste in my mouth.
-
I start to brush.
-
She's looking at me.
I look at her.
-
I keep brushing whilst looking.
-
Whilst I look at her,
she looks at me
-
and I continue to brush,
getting faster, getting harder.
-
I start to gag.
-
My eyes leak and I still look at her.
-
She looks at me and I keep brushing, gagging.
-
I feel like I'm gonna be sick.
-
Am I gonna be sick?
-
Gagging! Paste down my face,
my hair, on my shirt.
-
Dripping, and I still look at her
and she looks at me.
-
Enough.
-
The sculpture, the painter,
the video maker,
-
the figure of the artist has been
as fetishized in Western culture
-
as the Hollywood actor,
the town drunk or the Messiah himself.
-
Michael Peter's TateShots
attempts to reconfigure
-
the concept of creator or creatrix
by placing himself in the position
-
of artist as meme.
-
Watch, enjoy, and be one.
-
We are all children of the universe.
-
Yeah, absolutely.
-
I feel my absence
in the absence of all things.
-
Belief in living has been
contorted into this shortened life
-
of contempt and pre-determined imprisonment.
-
And I...
-
(sighs)
-
I feel it all collapsing.
-
I CAN'T FUCKING EMBRACE IT!
-
(sighs)
-
(sighs)
-
It's near and here I stand...
-
wasting my last moments,
cursing thee who impress me this
-
your fate.
-
You give nothing.
-
No mercy, no empathy.
-
Only self-hate.
-
To you, I'm just a fucking plaything.
-
An amusement replicating the cries of man.
-
You replay the last moments
of my life over and over and over!
-
I'm just a fucking charade
suspended at the core of ridicule
-
and I pity for those whose end mirrors mine
-
and I pity myself.
-
(sniffles)
-
I'm helpless.
-
Thank you.
-
I'm tormented by the inescapable
-
rewinding collapse.
-
Don't let them see me like this.
-
Man is under surveillance.
-
Where is he going?
-
Almost into a state of euphoria, of relief,
-
as though he's happy about it.
-
He has to act as a looking glass
rather than a mirror
-
of social conventions.
-
He disintegrated perfectly,
but never reappeared.
-
He became translucent to reveal his reality.
-
It's impossible unless he is,
or was, insane.
-
He changed his mind.
You know how men are.
-
Perhaps it symbolizes something deep
in the subconscious.
-
(silence)
-
Feeling genuinely upset.
-
Tears level. Hmm.
-
Shame on me.
-
My face is receptacle on surface,
-
a surface that's throwing up
what's already there.
-
Wet wear and hard [inaudible] stuff.
-
Confrontation is post. Preferably.
-
Living in lilts like over and under.
-
With grapple here
is approaching confrontation.
-
Or surface lump rolled out.
-
You go through the dump
to form a projectile semi-bound
-
like protest song collapsed.
-
Needs filled for no other.
-
Forced partly forever as long
as I leave you together.
-
Art hits.
-
Whatever I point at is big.
-
Snapped leg. Snapped leg.
-
Chalk circle.
-
Another one of those days where you think,
"Shit, I've done nothing today."
-
This London Underground journey
-
needs no excessive
mental activity to perform.
-
I'm stuck in a strange
modern day meditation.
-
This space asks for an interruption.
-
When it happens, it's a moment
of pure panic and confusion.
-
All previous expectations are obliterated.
-
There's a second of elation.
-
The rules are being broken here.
-
Quickly, it passes.
-
I'm back in the routine.
-
There's an expansion
of discovery and limitation,
-
even if I'm thinking,
"Fuck. This is boring"
-
as I scribble repetitively onto the floor.
-
Between the visible and invisible lies
a glistening rectangular pane,
-
a transparent veil.
-
This thin glossy sheet of glass,
so innocent looking,
-
is the frontier between
the physicality of toil
-
and the ignorance of immateriality.
-
Liquid crystals oscillating between
a seamless fluid and solid state
-
produce a viscous reality
that's almost palpable,
-
almost attainable but succeeds
only in abstracting.
-
The heightened artifice
perpetuates anonymity,
-
outsourced and far away.
-
Dead labor turns to capital
and power relations dissolve.
-
All that is solid melts into the air.
-
These light installations do
not provide an original experience.
-
Instead, the audience
will witness occurrences
-
they have previously encountered
in their everyday lives
-
on bedroom walls, floors,
and through bus windows
-
but may have never noticed.
-
Observing, recording,
and recreating studies of light,
-
this series of events are light occurrences
that have captured
-
and digitally recreated using projectors
-
as the technology to stage
them in this space.
-
Do you either go noticed or unnoticed?
-
What you're about to witness
is quite definitely harrowing.
-
British artist Jack Evans,
when he was raised in Mansfield,
-
part of the Midlands, is now at
-
one of the most southern parts
of the UK, Brighton Beach
-
in the hellish winter cold
laid out in nothing but Raybans,
-
his favorite pair of speedos
and a fucking tacky shit gold watch,
-
eating what I believe
those Brits call a 99 Flake.
-
His body looks glorious
as it shivers in the wind.
-
I do have to remind you,
especially the ladies,
-
it was fucking cold.
-
Enjoy.
-
Hold your breath.
Count to two.
-
Come with us in a world of pure imagination.
-
Take a look and you'll see
into our imagination.
-
We'll begin travelling
in the world of our creation.
-
What you'll see will have no explanation.
-
Look around.
-
There's no life to compare
with living with no pixelation.
-
Joe Moss was Shia LaBeouf
before Shia LaBeouf was Joe Moss.
-
We only got 30 seconds,
so I mean, I'll try his voice
-
but... I don't know.
-
Who makes that choice?
Who's pretending to be who?
-
We're pretending to talk
to a you that doesn't exist yet,
-
but what's really going on here?
-
I... fuck, I don't think
any of us understand.
-
Maybe you do.
-
There's always reflections
of you in the screen,
-
but I can't speak.
I'm dumb.
-
I'm the dumbest, but Shia talks.
-
Fuck, 30 seconds.
All right.
-
Pressure, whatever.
-
Hey, mom, it's really Joe.
-
I bet you never thought
this would fucking happen, huh?
-
(chuckles)
-
Work number 24 oscillates somewhere between
-
a durational performance in live sculpture.
-
The work seeks to act both
as a social and institutional critique
-
of "What is an art school?"
presented then in the form
-
of a bookshop, as opposed to a library,
-
arguably a democratic equivalent.
-
The work seeks to explore
the currency of ideas,
-
how trade and exchange
is not only commoditized,
-
but perhaps how conversation
is perhaps a vital component
-
in the flow and disruption
of how culture manifests.
-
A practice revolves around
questions of fact and fiction
-
and the blurred line that lies between.
-
I'm interested in how surveillance images
-
can be manipulated
and orchestrated in order to create
-
a particular narrative,
creating an unreliable narrator.
-
There are three parts to the work:
-
Footage of a factual space,
whereby a sequence of events
-
has occured, the digital
drawing of the space,
-
and a stripped-back stage
to its crude simplest skeletal form,
-
where the sequence
of events is re-enacted.
-
The stage is a factual representation
of a real life space
-
whereby every property
is identical in dimensions.
-
57,910,000.
-
108,200,000.
-
149,600,000.
-
227,940,000.
-
778,330,000.
-
1,429,400,000.
-
2,970,990,000.
-
4,000,000,500.
-
4 million, 5 billion...
-
913,520,000.
-
I can't stop looking at my phone and computer.
-
Separate connected entity making
me lose time/space awareness.
-
Where's my phone?
-
I need to make this sunset digital.
-
A stone preserved in binary code
-
until the server breaks
and the national grid
-
runs out of gas.
-
I can't find my money.
-
Dad left the physical sphere long ago.
-
All I see remind me of things online
or in a video game.
-
They are so real in the moment.
-
I climbed that mountain
with my mind and fingers.
-
My body didn't even get close.
-
All my experiences turn
into light and pixels.
-
Errrrrrmmmm.
-
Ummmmmmmmm.
-
Oohhhhhhhmmmm.
-
Ooohmmmmmmm.
-
Errrrrmmmmmmmm.
-
Ummmmmmmmmm.
-
Ooohhmmmmmm.
-
Ohhmmmmmmm.
-
Errrrmmmmmmmm.
-
Ummmmmmmmmm.
-
Ohhmmmmmmmm.
-
Ohhmmmmmmm.
-
Errmmmmmmmm.
-
Ummmmmmmmmm.
-
Ohhmmmmmmm.
-
Ohhmmmmmmmmm.
-
Errmmmmmmmmm.
-
Ummmmmmmm.