Posts Tagged ‘2000’
deploy at Walmart
August 22, 2009
Mobile Sculpture, sketchbook page, 2000 At some point it occurred to me that you could “park” / install / display / deploy a mobile sculpture at Walmart or some other retail store parking lot fairly easily. You have a captive, if likely bemused / uninterested, audience and some super absurd awesomeness. Never did follow thru [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, absurd, action, carbondale, deploy, install, lander, mobile sculpture, muji, parking lot, performance, retail, skelmanthorpe, walmartComments (1)
Post It Note drawings
August 20, 2009
Post it Note sketch, 2000 Posting has been slow of late as i prepare for the start of the school semester, i’m teaching courses at SAIC and UIC in the fall and with the new term only days away at UIC i’m putting the finishing touches to the syllabus and what not. It’s great to [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, accordian, carbondale, concertina, drawings, expanding, Holly Holmes, huddersfield, installation, MAN PORT, mobile, muji, permutations, post it notes, sculpture, sewing machine, skelmanthorpe, sketchbook, think map, unfolding, VEH PORT MOD
Studio, Carbondale circa 1999-ish
June 9, 2009
wow. i found this photo today. and i’m totally thrilled about this work again! i gotta get in the studio for sure. sad thing is i don’t have ANY of this work anymore. it either got trashed or gven away. i f anyone has any of these pieces please let me know they went to [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 1999, 2000, carbondale, constructions, glove factory, paint, southern illinois university, structuralist, tom burtonwood, wood
Social History
June 8, 2009
another essay, again no reference as yet as to what i am writing in reaction too. i know bad form. will make amends soon. UPDATE: T. J. Clark, selection from introduction to Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973 (ISBN 0-691-03982-8 pbk): pp. 10-15. CLINTONS’ 25TH [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: 2000, ad438, carma gorman, chicago sun times, juxtaposition, siuc, TJ Clark, tom burtonwood, Writing
Deitcher meets Foucault uptown
June 7, 2009
In an effort to be as thorough as possible in the documenting of my art practice / experience, i’m going to upload my writings, mostly student work, from both undergraduate and graduate courses. I can’t promise that the writing will necessarily make sense removed from the context of assignments produced for assessment, nor can i [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: 2000, ad438, carma gorman, david deitcher, michael foucault, siuc, tom burtonwood, writing about art and designComments (2)
Making messes
June 2, 2009
…work in progress, 2001 (installation with David Lohman and David Constable / with Jason Pritchett on the audio component… link> Institutional Critique ) This photograph documents that chaos created when 3 artists collaborate on a site specific installation deep within the “corridors of power.” Revisiting the scene of a prior installation Burtonwood and Lohman brought [...]
2009 | News | Tags: 2000, Audio, carbondale, david constable, david lohman, documentation, glitchy, institutional critique, jason pritchett, mess, photograph, siuc, still life, tannoy, techno, work in progress
Mobile Sculpture: Lander
May 11, 2009
Lander, Cardboard and mixed media, 2000 Lander was the next generation of mobile sculptures i produced at SIUC. The Lander was a in military speak a MANP (Man Portable) sculpture. Drawing inspiration from the Apollo Eagle Lunar Lander the piece folded into a compact rectangle that could be carried as a backpack. A standard camera [...]