Will you be part of my next installation?

Twenty-five sculptures in five dimensions in twenty-five locations for five years

‘Twenty-five sculptures in five dimensions in twenty-five locations for five years’ is possibly just the working title … though I *am* endlessly attracted to the awkward and complicated. That’s why I like you.

Fancy being part of my next installation? Launching April-ish 2023. More details below the instructions for Robert Rauschenberg’s 1965 White Paintings.

‘Twenty-five sculptures in five dimensions’ was an installation I and Studio Sutherl& put on for one-night only in Covent Garden in 2019. Only 200 people came but every single one of them then immediately quit their jobs the next day to become Fluxus-flavoured artists. Maybe.

Held in the Swiss Church, here’s what it looked like.

It won some big awards at the time and now, three years later, it is reemerging. A few weeks ago I was invited by Oxford University’s Saïd Business School to speak to a cohort of their MBA students about the concept. Maybe every new idea takes three years to flower?

The idea is this. Twenty-five sculptures are each formed from twenty-five syllables and the viewer’s imagination. (The five dimensions of the title are (1) up, (2) down, (3) the going along with it, (4) time and (5) consciousness.)

The art work is inspired by …

Yoko Ono (👇) / Tao / David Chalmers / Donald Hoffman / Sol LeWitt / Duchamp’s linguistics (ch. 6)

Five of the sculptures from the original installation are at the end of this email.

And now, in 2023, we’re going to remount the first installation at a major university (news on that coming later) but we’re ALSO going to create a second edition of the concept. A set of twenty-five completely new sculptures placed in twenty-five different locations – as globally spread-out as possible – and installed for five years.

Artworks that have human imagination as their primary material bound together by concept into a coherent geographically-vast exhibition.

Each location will receive a unique sculpture and detailed instructions for the dimensions and design of a single plinth plus text. They must promise for the plinth to be in place for five years from early 2023. They will then be included as a location in all surrounding exhibition material and publicity.

Would your business, institution, organisation, place of learning, club, disco, lounge, house, basement, or block party, car stereo, stoop, or any other social gathering like to take part?

Email me to be in.

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Here are five sculptures from the original show. Each made of twenty-five syllables – five syllables a line – and *your* consciousness.

This is the first sculpture people saw on entering the original installation. Peonies are not naturally blue. Snowflakes are never generic.

Our take on Dali’s famous Lobster Telephone. Lobsters never stop getting bigger.

A site specific sculpture. This next work appeared in front of the altar at the Swiss Church in Covent Garden. It’s a crucifixion.

A sculpture based on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’ relationship. ‘Hot stink’ is stolen from here.

Fingers crossed I don’t get sued over this sculpture …

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Finally, I’ve just remixed my website a little. Split out my commercial and artistic offer. Written an artistic statement for the first time. Added a pathetically thin calendar of upcoming events (I need some gigs, book me for some gigs).

Will you have a look and tell me what you think?