PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
JOIN US! TOO
polystyrene flooring, photocopy on paper, sticky tape, installation view: McClennan Gallery, Glasgow, 2007, installation view: Tramway Glasgow 2007 part of Portrait of the Artist (2007).
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JOIN US!
photocopy on paper, 1189mm x 841mm, 2009-ongoing. A series of posters to promote and encourage the recipient to organise, and audiences to join, a life class.
Join Us! is a proposal to audiences in the form of a poster. The images are taken from ‘A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students’ by Arthur Thompson (Dover Edition 1964, from a republication of the fifth edition 1929, of the first edition published in 1896). The 1964 edition includes unaltered reproductions of photographs that contain the erased male and female genitalia of its models. In the selected two photographs, the male and female models are depicted pondering the potential of their own self image in reproduction (albeit in absence of their sexual organs). The posters are intended to promote and encourage the recipient of the work to organize, and for audiences to join, a life class, suggesting a way to question mores, confront their own and others bodies, and encourage interaction through collective enterprise.
Part of the project "This & That" International Mail Art Swap, curated by Christine Wong Yap.