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The Second OXO Conference

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. Copies of the publication will be printed and distributed to 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. The 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).

The Second OXO Conference (as a country)

The country of The Second OXO Conference is a conversational place. It has a large rectangular border that contains four smaller states inside. These states were constructed with contributions from an artist, a curator, a designer and an industrial designer. The leader explains that the states are to be used by the residents as a backdrop for formal or informal presentations. Copies of each state handbooks will be printed and distributed. It will also be sold to other countries. Every country who owns a publication is invited to interpret each state, and present their version of the country. The countries aims are to bring together people from different disciplines to talk solely about, in or around the made-up word "country". This might range from explorations of the use of the word, to the evolution of graphical representations of the branded country popular in Britain (where the country conference takes it inspiration).

The Second OXO Conference (in the past)

The Second OXO Conference was made as a conversational piece. It is 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 explained that the A2 sheets are to be pinned to the wall as a backdrop for formal or informal presentation. Copies of the publication were printed and distributed to people invited. It was also sold in artist led spaces and book shops. Everyone who owned the publication was invited to interpret the work, and present their own version of The Second OXO Conference. The conference aimed to bring together people from different disciplines to talk solely about, in or around the made-up word "Oxo". This ranged from explorations of the use of the word, to the evolution of graphical representations of the branded stock cube that was popular in Britain at the time (the Oxo cube was where the Conference took it inspiration).

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Fucking BORED

Fucking BORED is a simple outlined shape of a human looking bored. The work is free to use a range of materials. At present Fucking BORED has been imagined in five physical sculptures all made with different materials and a set of vector files. Each sculpture has been made and so it either leans or sits against a wall or upright surface. The sculptures have been made with thin materials meaning the graphical representation can only be viewed from the side.

The sculptures that have been made of this body of work have been made fast and as soon as a shape that looks bored is archived the work is completed.

Fucking BORED takes the form of the simplest way of representing the stance of a person who looked like they are bored. The work plays with and looks in depth at graphical representation of 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.

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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.