Daniel what, how, why

The Second OXO Conference

What

The Second OXO Conference is a conversational piece. It takes the shape of an A3 folder that contains four A2 folded sheets inside. On these sheets are contributions from an artist, a curator, a designer and an industrial designer. The folder explains that the A2 sheets are to be pinned to the wall as a backdrop for formal or informal presentation.

How Copies of the publication will be printed and distributed throughout the people invited. It will also be sold in artist led spaces and book shops. Everyone who owns a publication is invited to interpret the work, and present their version of The Second OXO Conference.

Why The Second OXO Conference aims to bring together people from different disciplines to talk solely about, in or around the made-up word "Oxo". This might range from explorations of the use of the word, to the evolution of graphical representations of the branded stock cube popular in Britain (where the Oxo Conference takes it inspiration).

Fucking BORED What Fucking BORED is a representation of a human looking bored. At the moment this body of work consists of wooden and concrete sculptures that have been crudely made so that they present a graphical presentation of someone looking bored. It could also take the form of a vector graphic.

How The image of someone looking bored is taken from my own idea of what shape best represents this. The sculptures that have been made of this body of work up to now have been made fairly fast and are finished as soon as a shape that looks bored is archived.

Why With this work I wanted to look in depth at how a shape that looks bored can give critical comment on a situation and how passive behaviour can also act as a critical tool.

The Anthropomorphised Piece of Shit What The Anthropomorphised Piece of Shit is the title of a fictitious text that is read during a fountain show that is simultaneously being controlled. The fountains fall in and out of rhythm with the reading. The fountains being turned on and off and pumping at different rates created a drone like soundtrack to the reading.

How Each of the fountains were made out of concrete and looked like crude hands pointing. The water is pumped through the body of the fountain out of the tip of the ‘finger’ and into a bucket where it was pumped round again. The fountains were turned on and off by a switch board next to where the reader was speaking from.