chaos theory

with Antonina Mamzenko

Hi

Sometimes, as artists, we are too obsessed with making the meaning behind our work clear.

But what it we didn’t?

What if we left things unsaid?

What if we decided to be unapologetically non-sensical?

What if our work held conflicting meanings and we didn’t care to clarify our intentions?

I love this quote by the American artist John Baldessari: "I’m just interested in fucking people up when they’re looking at my work."

So, my question to you is:
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How can you flip the script?
How can you get playful?
How can you get humorous and subversive?

How can you “fuck people up” when they are looking at your work?
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This is one of the very first things I ask people to do in Words+Pictures: get nonsensical, hide the meaning, work intuitively, experiment unapologetically, trust their gut and ask it no questions - and see what happens.
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​Come play - we start again on 16th April and there are 4 spots left.

Antonina x

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