A very inspiring project - a walk from Belfast to Bandung
More brilliant, playful games. I love it. Most of them involve food and booze too.
http://www.spartaction.com/wintergames/day01.html
http://www.spartaction.com/bandung.html
"What artists do possess is a practical working knowledge of the relationship between the physical materiality of the world, emotion and thought."
'Drinking Blindfolded in' is the collective name for a series of interactions made in various European cities over a period of five yearts. This is one of the earliest SPART works. It was 1st conceived of as a means of getting beyond what I then saw as 'the problem of the visual’.
Put simply, my background is visual art and my main reason for being interested in visual art was because of its potential to communicate complex ideas in a simple quick and effective way. After much work with visual mediums, I wanted to get rid of the mediation of the artwork, which inevitably led me to work with performance art. But for me performance art was still problematic because people were coming to watch a visual phenomena. With my work I wanted to obliterate the divide between myself and those who had come to take part in the work. I also wanted to obliterate the divide between art and daily life. I wanted there to be no divide, so the 1st thing I felt I had to do was tone down the visual aspect of my work and concentrate more on the 'aesthetic’.
I really like what Justin says. I think this is how I feel. I see play as art, and play as the best way to allow people to be artists...I think...