What do you all do?

i fix lawn mowers on saturdays and work in a bike shop on sundays
starting uni in september (mature student 25)

Creative artworker by day and freelance web designer by night. on my days off i teach kids to do graffiti, and get paid silly money for it.. currently setting up a company at the moment doing just that and hoping i can do it full time and quit my day job.

Chance would be a fine thing.

Another web geek, I do search engine marketing so not too techy

I'm a professional fakenger.

I was up at St Martins today, with my very educated and artistic friend, still trying to figure out what 'Contextual Practice' is

full time media whore. (graphic designer / illustrator in TV/Film)

I write music for telly ads.

Another full-time meeja hor and part time DJ/musician/layabout...

Hovis Brown Senior lecturer in Contextual Practice. doesn't sound too sexy, does it?

That is impressive Hovis you seem quite young to be a Senior lecturer. Do you have postdocs in the art world or do peole tend to mange to get straight into being a lecturer?

I'm a designer/art director.

If any of the programmers on here is capable of building SNS type sites could they whisper their mail to me.
I have a project....

Im yet another ex messenger (wannabe fakenger) and currently head controller type person :/

realised i never commented only viewed ahhhhhhh

well was contextual studies student last yr. hovis was me tutor. now waiting to start BA at st martins...for summer im working as a publishing assistant at friends house on euston road...its pretty cool job amazing pay! i just wish i was riding more

Turd Fergurson realised i never commented only viewed ahhhhhhh

well was contextual studies student last yr. hovis was me tutor. now waiting to start BA at st martins...for summer im working as a publishing assistant at friends house on euston road...its pretty cool job amazing pay! i just wish i was riding more

So what is contextual studies in laymans terms

I mean can post me a picture of summit 'contextual'

placed in the correct context the above pic would make perfect sense. coming out of a dog or being hurled by a monkey at tourists, for instance. but placed on the head of a midget or trying to put it back where it came from: not so good. hence...it's all about context.

how about an artist who does contextual practice

I'm curious

contextual practice isn't something you do, it's just something you study. basically it's someone who doesn't limit oneself to one particular type of art. there isn't this whole ethos of "i'm a sculptor", "i'm a painter", etc. it's more, i'm curious about "X" and i will prod it using whatever means necessary.

i personally think thats the best (if possible) approach.i like the idea of having a brief set and tackling it using any means neccecery

Hovis Brown contextual practice isn't something you do, it's just something you study. basically it's someone who doesn't limit oneself to one particular type of art. there isn't this whole ethos of "i'm a sculptor", "i'm a painter", etc. it's more, i'm curious about "X" and i will prod it using whatever means necessary.

Hovis Brown placed in the correct context the above pic would make perfect sense. coming out of a dog or being hurled by a monkey at tourists, for instance. but placed on the head of a midget or trying to put it back where it came from: not so good. hence...it's all about context.

So like 'anything' can be 'art' if placed in the right context

So like an object like a spade or a pea can be 'art' when placed in the right context

and intangable things like a breeze or a smell or a sound

can also be 'art' if placed in the right context

and if you study 'contextual practice' you learn how to make

this kind of art outside the traditional boundaries

of painting, sculptur, music etc

So are there any contextual practioners that I can google ...?

Incidently I live about two minutes from the pompidou centre

maybe there is some stuff in there I can go and look at

"placed in the correct context the above pic would make perfect sense. coming out of a dog or being hurled by a monkey at tourists, for instance. but placed on the head of a midget or trying to put it back where it came from: not so good. hence...it's all about context."

Lol haha, but then I realised you're being serious... or is it a double bluff?

fixer Lol haha, but then I realised you're being serious... or is it a double bluff?

after a bit of wine, i can sound pretty serious, but it wasn't really.

buddha: have a look at tim hawkinson, douglas gordon, and tom friedman. tim hawkinson for his work with the idea of the Artist (with a capital A), Douglas Gordon for his reappropriation of cinema, and tom friedman for his transformation of the mundane to the extraordinary. just a few....

nothing too exciting on at the pompidou at the moment, but you can check out annette messenger. not a fan of her particularly, but she won the golden lion at the venice biennale two years ago.

Art can be intangable things like a breeze or a smell or a sound if placed in context, after an 'F'.

Sorry to lower the tone. I was inspired by the pic.

JOL Art can be intangable things like a breeze or a smell or a sound if placed in context, after an 'F'.

Sorry to lower the tone. I was inspired by the pic.

I suppose I asked for that one....LOL

Balloon Self-Portrait ...?

that's kinda groovy