John Latham - Full Stop

John Latham - Full Stop (1961)

Full Stop is a vast painting of a large black spot roughly in the center of an unprimed and un-stretched canvas. Painted with a spray-gun and displayed pinned to the wall the work implies both text and painting as new mechanical processes.

Latham called these works 'process sculpture', and because of the tiny dots of black pigment created by the spray gun he described them as a new way of considering and unifying time and matter. He wrote extensively about  a complex philosophy of time, combining physics philosophy and art to explain the significance of the mark making process of the sparay gun in a text titled The Mark (1954).

Ryan Gander - Didactease

 Didactease Expanded (Questions To The Printer: 'Is It Truly Offset?') 2006

Offset printed poster 

Ryan Gander's Didactease is a symbol, or in fact a combination of symbols, which states in mathematical terms: "There exists only one definition for everything, everywhere at any one time." It is something of a recurring symbol in his work, appearing on the Lisson Gallery's editioned print above, utilised in a pendant worn by a gallery assistant throughout his South London Gallery show Heralded As The New Black in 2008 (below), as well as being made available to buy as licensed pattern.

Didactease 2006

20 inch Tiffany's chain necklace

Conor & David - & Poster

Conor & David - & Poster

The Ampersand (or epershand) '&' is a symbol or typographic ligature representing the conjunction word 'and'.

The word 'ampersand' derives from the phrase "and per se and", formally used when reciting the alphabet with any letter which could be used as a word in its self. For example 'A' or 'I'.
The word was frequently slurred to "ampersand", the typographic '&' is again combination of the Latin letters 'et' (meaning 'and').










Conor & David are two Dublin based designers working mostly in print and typography. Their '& Poster' was a self initiated poster created in celebration for the Ampersand.

James Ferris - Ligatures

 

James Ferris Ligatures 2009

Ligatures is a bookwork by British artist James Ferris, published by Mute. In 2008 the artist set himself the task of wearing a different tie each day for the year. The book documents each tie visually in simple black & white, alongside a series of accompanying anecdotes, aphorisms, comments and witticisms, forming a unique record of the artists thoughts and sartorial selections in 2008.

Ligatures is on show at Limoncello, London, until June 4th 2011 as part of the Ryan Gander's Young British Art .

On Kawara - I Got Up At...

On Kawara - I Got Up At...

1974 - 75 (Ninety postcards with printed rubber stamps)

The semi autobiographical 'I Got Up At...' by On Kawara is a series of postcards sent to John Baldessari. Each card was sent from his location that morning detailing the time he got up.

The time marked on each card varies drastically from day to day, the time stamped on each card is the time he left his bed as opposed to actually waking up. Kawara's work often acts to document his existence in time, giving a material form to which is formally immaterial. The series has been repeated frequently sending the cards to a variety of friends and colleagues. 

On Kawara - March 5,  2000 New York

Liquitex on canvas, 25.4x34.3 cm

Tehching Hsieh - One Year Performance 1980 - 1981

The second of a series of five one-year performances by New York-based Taiwanese artist Tehching 'Sam' Hsieh; The artist clocked in to a factory-style clocking machine on the hour every hour for a period of one year. 

This piece followed a year of living in a cage, for the third year he lived outdoors, in the fourth, he was tied to another artist, Linda Montano with a two-metre rope, they never touched. The fifth year was entitled 'No Art': ‘I not do ART, not talk ART, not see ART, not read ART, not go to ART gallery and ART museum for one year. I just go in life.’

Interview with Barry Schwabsky.

One Year Performance project website.

Noah Kalina - Everyday

Noah Kalina - Everyday

(2000 - Present)

Noah Kalina has been photographing himself everyday since January 2000, each self portait is added in sequence each month to his website (click here). 

The composition and expression remain mostly unchanged image to image, and our attention is drawn to his background and often erratic hair. In 2006 he uploaded 6 years of photographs onto Youtube as a video, receiving over 18 million views he has subsequently invented a new genre copied by many. 

As the Kalina's gaze remains largely unaltered for the (six photos a second) 6 minute duration of the video,  the work becomes less of a exploration into the self and more the passage of time. 

John Baldessari - Portrait: (Self) #1 as Control + 11 Alterations by Retouching and Airbrushing

John Baldessari Portrait: (Self) #1 as Control + 11 Alterations by Retouching and Airbrushing 1974

Roni Horn - You are the Weather

Roni Horn - 'You are the Weather'

(1994-96)

Horn's photographic series ' You are the Weather' show a young woman emerging from a geothermal pool in Iceland. Each photo taken milliseconds apart show minute and subtle differences in character almost indistinguishable from image to image.

The series beautifully demonstrate that due to small differences in circumstance and weather, we are not the same from moment to moment, mutated by environments and by others. 

Keith Tyson - Artmachine Repeater Series

 Keith Tyson Dual Workstations (30 Seconds Late and Early) 1998 - 99

Keith Tyson's Artmachine (1992) is an automated device for creating art ideas. Through an algorithm or specific set of instructions the machine will, given a specific state, generate a set of instructions for an artwork. The database of potential starting points contains the world and everything in it. Tyson then has to deal with the problem of how to carry out the machine's instructions - what he describes as an 'executive' rather than a 'creative' role.

In the Repeater Series Tyson has utilised the instructions given by the Artmachine to create a series of works that present what initially seems to be two or more identical objects,  paintings, photographs, sculptures or assemblages. In fact these repetitions are separated by carefully monitored, specified forms of measurement: time, space, weight etc. In Dual Workstations... (above) the two almost identical workstations are in fact created to exist sixty seconds apart; A clock and a readout on a digital NASA weather chart reveal the change most explicity, 2 plants, planted exactly 60 seconds apart, are less obvious at first glance. In A Universal Cooling... (below) the two assemblages are separated by a temperature change of 1 degree celsius.

A Universal Cooling Within The Everyday Photographic Array  2000 - 01

 

27 Stage Repeater AKA Double Cellar Painting 1997

Sinta Werna - Empfang

Sinta Werna - Empfang (2008)

Installation View: ' The Third Floor'

Werner's 2008 installation at COMA (Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin) was a mirrored duplicate of their third floor office space.


Meticulously, Werner  re-constructed  the space using wooden frame-work reminiscent of set design, so although the scene was seemingly perfect at first glance its fiction soon becomes evident upon closer inspection. The original or real office space is employed as a  prop for its false duplicate giving a real sense of the uncanny and an unsetteling effect on the viewer .