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Notes for the residency at ARNA
stockholm1. Compile all the voice memos and notes into a meta-form that can be referenced, a personal operating manual.
2. Collect various natural materials: grass, plants, trees, bark, stones, mud, etc., and make into a palate for a series of gray paintings - make my own oil paint for monochromes.
3. Make a series of art historical lectures of a pseudo philosophical nature. Method: appropriate many different texts, collaged together (via CCP - Creative Conceptual Plagiarism) to form a script which is read/narrated via voice-over either by myself or others, in relation to images which are combining my own original works and appropriated philosophical/scientific diagrams. These meta-videos are ongoing, streamed on the website, a continuation of VIDEOSCROLL.
4. Use studio lights/flashes, set up a white background, shoot a series of found natural objects and lie (blatantly, subversively) to display them as "life-like" or "realistic" sculptures fabricated from strange or exotic materials: unpronounceable chemical substrates, rare mineral varieties, esoteric animal and plant species, indigenous food stuffs, expensive art materials, absurdities, etc. Examples: present rocks as "rocks," as well as special stones containing unsensible qualities, invisible or pataphysical properties.
5. I can't remember.
6. Rocks made from mulched paper, moulded from real rock specimens, to craft a series of "studio stones."
7. Aeolian harp, a wind harp, to use the cracks between windows to produce music - to let the building play itself.
8. First thoughts of a book form, to compile everything that has ever been made into a singular object.