Review of 'I Am Not Here To Entertain You' by Chantell May Purcell

http://www.fadwebsite.com/2011/11/12/review-i-am-not-here-to-entertain-you-live-art-performance-at-the-bun-house/

New Sculptures at "I'm not here to entertain you" , Field Projects, the Bun House, Peckham

Doric Dick, 2011, concrete & plaster, 100 x 40 x 10 cm

Ruins II, 2011, concrete & plaster, 60 x 60 x 60 cm

Upcoming Show:

I Am Not Here To Entertain You

Curated by Karl Weill

At the Bun House, 96 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5ED

On Friday, 28^th October 2011, 7-9pm

Jack Catling, Lennie Lee, Vanessa Mitter, Nicola Ruben, Montini, O. B. De Alessi, James Gardiner,

Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Leo Koivistoinen, Alec Dunnachie, Phill Wilson-Perkin, Samantha Taylor

In September 1968, Karl Weill stated:

What is the performative tactic if it is not a calculated assault on the audience? It is forbidden to forbid. I want you to imagine, for a moment, an audience who are not entertained. I am walking backwards. Ennui. The slow rustling of a paper bag. Talking. A man swears. The crowd breaks out in laughter. Voices heckling……the audience falls silent. A fear of engulfment precedes attack. The shouting then begins. Intervention. All the while, my back is turned.[1]

www.bunhouse.com

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[1] Chronologie de l’Art, Issue 29, Autumn 1968

Follies and Fuck-ups

Folly Cock City, 2011, plaster & concrete on table


Folly Cock City (detail), 2011, plaster & concrete


Mushroom Folly, 2011, concrete & plaster, 14 x 20 x 8 cm


Ruins, 2010, plaster & concrete, 14 x 20 x 8 cm

Lighthouse, 2011, plaster & concrete, 30 x 15 x 15 cm

Creekside Open curated by Phyllida Barlow

'Mini-Folly' (centre sculpture, concrete & plaster) in

Creekside Open 2011

curated by Phyllida Barlow

www.creeksideopen.org

APT Gallery, London

MA in Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art 2010

left: Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm
centre: See-saw, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 143cm
centre background: Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster, 66 x 39 x 39cm
right: Tower, 2010, concrete & plaster, 103 x 39 x 39cm



left: Tower, 2010, concrete & plaster, 103 x 39 x 39cm
centre: See-saw, 2010 concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 43cm
background: Lever, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 7 x 7cm
right: Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm




See-saw, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 43cm
Lever, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 7 x 7cm





Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm



Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster, 66 x 39 x 39



Various monuments and edifices I see around London
influence my recent drawings andsculptures. Particularly
the area of the city around Chelsea College of Art,
Tate Britain, Westminster and Whitehall, is saturated
with forms such as obelisks, columns, rectangular
plinths and monuments. In my work I recognise
these forms that speak of purity and austerity as
embedded in a history of dominance and control.
My sculptures seek to corrupt and suffuse the
sombreness of this male monumental architecture
with the frivolousness and flippancy of
consumer culture. I want to contaminate the serious
whites, greys, blacks and beiges with bright
lurid pink, yellow, oranges and reds.
I want to disrupt the precision and exactness of
architecture with playfulness and pleasure
and to deny these monuments of their
heroic autonomy and fixed
subjectivity to appropriate them
for my own means.