Jun 25, 2008

Dexter Deacon concludes


Given the complexity of Dr Deacon's analysis of this inaugural Oafy project we are here posting his final comments on the subject of the ecotechnological elements inherent in our World Vices installation.

"..."Bull in a china shop" analogy generated by the HGM (Helpfull gallery minder) certainly drew my attention to the common suspicions of an increasingly broad community at odds with the industrial era. This demonstrated how often mythological elements can be confused within the context of contemporary events. The ecotechnological paradigm or Arcadian element as I have called it is inevitably drawn into the task of becoming a reference point for problems which face us in the present. In other words the desire to find a solution to technological problems beyond our control summons up visions of a better way of doing things, which is based on principles developed from a mythological past. This is perhaps the minotaur trapped within a labyrinth of its own repeated self image.

However as I have shown in my exposition of the fundamental workings of the mysterious egg forms, our historical unease has another set of principles with which it can seek relief. While social and historical forces almost inevitably gain the upper hand in priorities of interpretation and solution, and the desire for endlessly deferred pleasure leads us into an animistic quest of hedonistic expansion- we can still keep in mind the principle of centripetal motion. The current focus on centrifugal motion and heat and friction generating technologies has led to the global result of a lack of binding or inward moving technologies and cultures. The storage or release of nutrients in water depending on rising or falling temperature gradients is a basic example of this, a response to this phenomenon is the natural breathing cycle of plant life as nitrogen is stored or released in response to the anaerobic or aerobic activity in soil microbes. The egg form is of course the energy residue of an inward moving and therefore binding flow dynamic, a cooling temperature gradient allowing for the storage of carbon elements-bound by calcium in the shell and gently held in an energetic state by the rotation of water within this form, the ideal state for germination or uptake by other living organisms.

While this exposition leaves many gaps and unanswered questions I would like to thank OAFY and the conceptual modernist team for allowing me this brief interpretation of the ecotechnological elements inherent in the World Vices installation. Perhaps by placing the worklight inside our mysterious egg forms we have in a sense, in the act of gazing into that place- concealed from ourselves a process which was taking place. The frustration of such mysteries will no doubt lead to further speculation on my part.

Jun 13, 2008

Centripetal compositional elements: Analysis by Dexter Deacon











As mentioned in our previous bulletin, our chief ecotechnologist Dr Dexter Deacon here presents some of his views on the technical elements of the Free Plants World Vices exhibition. Dexter holds a Phd in Naturalesque rotational geometry from the non-linear department of interspecies anthropology, Berkley California and is a leading Authority in this area.


The Dr D.Deacon Analysis.

Greetings friends, thank you for taking the time to explore with me this wonderful, if crude example of rudimentary ecotechnology. I am honoured to share with you in a technical interpretation of this simple arrangement of elements, so precariously displayed within the confining yet atmospheric walls of the artificially induced space of the installation. I must not also omit to thank the conceptual modernist team for allowing me the opportunity to develop this analysis of the ecotechnological elements of the installation. While it was my original intention to proceed with a diagrammatic display of the meanings, both latent and explicit -within the installation, I have decided to rely on some of the wonderful photographic images.

In the third photograph we can see the clustering of objects which make up the arrangement. The world corresponds to a roughly central placement within this composition and is elevated by a "Pastoral table" the three moulded eggs- slipped, cracked and upside down  respectively, form a triad which draws the eye to the herd of carbonate cows toward the rear of the space. The light is ambient depending on the time of day and a large screen or filter mediates the atmosphere from the outside. If we look back at the photographic image of the pastoral table with the screen directly behind it we can see that this also forms a composition, where the darker central panel  corresponds to the table and the lighter areas of the screen correspond to the eggs, placed on the floor. It is clearly some sort of visual metaphor at work, the eggs themselves appearing to have taken the light from the screen, this is of course their suggested function within the inferred ecotechnological paradigm we are proceeding from.

Dexter  Deacon returns with the second part of his facenating exploration of our installation in our next bulletin.








Jun 6, 2008

free plants world vices















We are pleased to announce the resolution of our integration into the new arts organisation OAFY. Temporary Monuments has been allowed to maintain its original goals of producing public artworks which are testament to events which may have been forgotten.

The Oldschool Art Funnys group have commenced their work with us in fitting fashion by producing an outstandingly whimsical environmental exhibition on the edge of world attention as it turns toward Wellington for world environment day. Our artisans have completed their work and the exhibition performed well. Over 250 plants have been distributed to the people of Wellington to aid them in creating an idyllic existence for themselves and other. A focus group of OAFY conceptual modernists after much deliberation provided Temporary Monument artisans with blueprints for the construction of a metaphorical installation of objects light and sound. The following images document some of the most important views of this pastoral miniature space.

We have asked the head of the OAFY ecotechnology technical department, Dexter Deacon to provide a technical diagram of the meaning of the installation. This will comprise the larger portion of our next bulletin. We will also be providing further dramatic images of the World Vices section of the exhibit- elements of which it is hoped will be utilised in generating initial imagery for an upcoming OAFY film project.

Jun 3, 2008

takeover bid!

Readers of our bulletin will have found little new material over the past few months. This is due to a negotiation involving the merger of Temporary monuments into a new umbrella organisation. A generous offer has been made to subsume theTemporary Monuments brand into a larger collective organisation. We are currently drafting agreements as to the terms and conditions of this merger and will endeavour to inform our loyal readers as soon as an accord is reached. We should also mention an interesting expression of the temporary ideal currently on show at the Thistle Hall Gallery, from June 5-7.