Daniel what, how, why

The Second OXO Conference What The Second OXO Conference will be an A3 folder that contains four A2 folded sheets inside. The sheets have contributions from an artist, a curator, an industrial designer and a designer. The folder explains that the A2 sheets are to be pined to the wall to be read as a backdrop.

How The publication will be printed and distributed through the people invited as well as being sold in artist led spaces and book shops. Everyone who owns a publication is invited to present The Second OXO Conference as a conversational piece either through a formal or informal presentation.

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, ranging from explorations of the branded stock cube popular in Britain (where the Oxo Conference takes it inspiration from) to the use of the word to look at the evolution of graphical representations.

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.