AHM want to hear from you

Were you at the last AHM Symposium at DCA, Dundee earlier this month?

If so, AHM would like to hear from you!

It would be great if you would be able to put a few sentences together as a response/reflection of the day's proceedings.

You could leave a comment on the blog, or email your response to
ahmglasgow@gmail.com

AHM look forward to hearing from you!

Jean Urquhart presentation

Jean states that it is no good for artists to talk to themselves - they need to talk to politicians

Jenny Brownrigg presentation

24 Hour Football presentation

Fraser MacDonald and Catrin Jeans talk about the project which took place at Generator Projects gallery, Dundee on 26th August 2011

Gerry Hassan in conversation with Sandy Moffat

Gerry Hassan - keynote presentation

Yuck n Yum manifesto

t s Beall manifesto

Chris Dooks manifesto

The Exhausted Artist reaches the end of the line with healthcare providers causing his already weak rainbow to flicker and dull.

ii. The prism that previously created this rainbow now needs re-calibrating or ‘patching’ with adaptations to repair it or to replace it.

iv. To restore the affected frequencies of this ‘rainbow of exhaustion’ we instigate super-low energy art interventions across three seemingly idiosyncratic hierarchical categories;

1. As as Immediate Triage

2. Art as Perceptual Enhancer

and

3. Art and Cosmological Portal…

v. We use psychogeography, alpha states, astronomy, broken instruments, bricolage, but in particular art that is made through appropriation, allowing large-scale artworks to be built without budget or physical effort

vi. Accidentally, these processes are of benefit to audiences outside of the M.E./chronic Fatigue Syndrome community

The Anthropo-scene Evolution manifesto

2011 saw the culmination of avarice that necessitates naming the human impact on all earthly things. In response we wish to reject humanity’s supposed dominion over nature and to take responsibility for wilful and excessive impact. Our intention is to constitute greater empathy between the world’s free-living things. As creative pragmatists committed to producing practical wisdom, we recognise a loss of humility and seek to reengage the aesthetic and the sublime, which provide interface and witness to spirit on earth. Cultural responses to the anthropo-scene realize that there are opportunities embedded in new constraints; but more importantly there is generative force amongst living things that must be engaged anew. We experiment with a new materialism and aim for new metaphysical purpose for the arts and humanities within the public domain.

Jacob Kerray Manifesto

The following words are scheduled for one fall introducing first the greatest artist in the world JACOB KERRAY.


I don't hate you artists I hate the idea that you are the best, because you are not, I'm the best, the only thing you are better at is suckling at the teat of art, chewing its puppies raw. I've grabbed for so many brass rings that I've come to realize that that is just what they are, Brass rings. I don't have an upcoming exhibition, I'm not represented by a gallery, I'm not in MAP magazine and I'm not main eventing G.I but I can draw better than any of you people, I can Paint better than any of you people and I can theorise better than any of you people. In that studio, in the gallery or on this microphone, No one can touch me.


Commercial Break.


The EARL OF PAINFORDSHIRE took control of this manifesto during the commercial break countering an early aggressive onslaught:


Early Doors

Don't be precious about your work

Secondary Research

Jabroni's

Anti-Aesthetic

Minimalism

Absence

Void

Negative space

Informing my Practise

Process

Site specific

Contextualisation

Mark Making

Man Marking

Cleverness

Ritual

Repetition

Part and Parcel

Hyperbole


Reversal


The Ball never gets dirty, It is the artist who soils himself and those who ingest it with clever grins, Intellectuals and Smooth talkers. What I have said means nothing, any attempt to understand or interpret what I am saying is pointless. Resistance is futile. Confusion is the only comfort.


3:16

Attitude Era

Art is Jericho

We Have No Mouth

It's True, It's True

RAW IS WAR

PHENOM

KING OF KINGS

KNOW YOUR ROLE

To be the Man you gotta beat the Man.

WOOOOOOO!


1-2-3. Ring the bell.

Music.


(drop microphone)


Thanks for your time

Helen Shaddock manifesto

Art is, and can be many things

Art : political : art : captivating : art : public : art :

loud: art : thought provoking : art : light : art :

critical : art : colourful : art : challenging : art :

beautiful : art : permanent : art : enlightening : art :

intimate : art : poetic : art : huge : art : meaningful

: art : soft : art : moving : art : reflective : art :

sensual : art : controversial : art : tactile : art :

temporary : art : pertinent : art : complex : art :

humorous : art : difficult : art : inspiring : art :

quiet : art : engaging : art : emotional : art :

stimulating : art : important

Ewan Morrison manifesto

Stop Laundering Blood Money - Stop Making Bloody Art

Art is only as good as the economic system that support it – it has no real meaning beyond that. No matter what critics and art specialists say, the content of art is meaningless when removed from social function. All art means is its context. Art has become a form of investment for extremely wealthy elites. These are people who wreck currencies through speculation; who destroy indigenous industries by outsourcing to third world sweatshops; these are people who pay no taxes and have Swiss bank accounts; these are people who got rich on short selling pension funds and repossessing homes; these are people who got rich on selling lies and crap products to millions of people; these are people who look at your art as what it really is – a thing empty of content, with a price tag – a speculative investment.

Which is why you have to stop making Art.

Or why you have to only sell your labour to people who can afford to pay you for the amount of time you put into it, on a scale comparable to the minimum wage.

You get paid £5.93 an hour.

Take it or leave it.

When you sell an artwork to a global murderer, you become their alibi for murder.

You become an ‘ethical’ money laundering scheme.

We don’t care if you mean well, if you love your art.

We tell you now that you have to take responsibility for the final meaning and resting place of your work, and if it sits in a bank vault or hangs on the wall of a CEO then you are a banker, you’re are a CEO.

Find out who you are selling to.

Follow the links in their business chain to see their connections with banking and weapons manufacture.

Until you do this, you have to stop making art. Or we will destroy the art you make, in the name of true art.

AHM Manifesto

Saturday 1st October - big thanks to all involved

We thoroughly enjoyed our 3rd State of Play Symposium, and want say thanks to all those involved:

Thank you to everyone who came to AHM's State of Play symposium at DCA today.

Thanks, of course, to Gerry Hassan, 24 hour football, Jenny Brownrigg, Jean Urquhart, Ross Sinclair for their presentations and Ewan Morrison, Helen Shaddock, Jacob Kerray, Chris Dooks, The Anthropo-scene Evolution Alliance, t s Beall, Yuck n Yum for their artist manifestos.

We also want to express our thanks to all the team at DCA and DJCAD who made the symposium and CentreSpace exhibition possible - Clive Gillman, Alice Black, Katy Brignall, Ian Banks, Sophia Yadong Hao, Laura Simpson, Andrew Dodds and Graham Domke.

Thanks to the DJCAD students who volunteered throughout the day - Joanne Macfadyen for her work with registration and refreshments and Michael Pilkington and Michael Spink for the video and sound documentation.

It was a great day beginning with lots of thought provoking one-minute artist manifestos and followed by 4 great presentations.

Keep checking the AHM blog for photos, comments etc, and please do send AHM your thoughts and comments.

Tickets for State of Play Symposium 3

Although tickets can be bought on the day at the DCA Box Office, we recommend booking them in advance to avoid disappointment.

Here is how to do so:

Tickets can be purchased in advance from the DCA Box Office either in person or by calling 01382 909900, Mon - Sat 10am - 8pm, Sun Midday - 8pm with a credit or debit card.

Tickets can also be purchased online at http://www.dca.org.uk/Whats-on/talks-and-events/state-of-play-art-and-culture-in-scotland-today.html

Book now in order to avoid disappointment!

Photos from the CentreSpace exhibition

Lunch at Symposium 3

For those of you coming to the Symposium on Saturday (good on you!), the lunch is scheduled for 12:45 - 2pm.

If you wish to eat at the Jute cafe/restaurant at DCA, you may be best to book as we expect it will be busy.

The phone number for Jute is: 01382 909 246

Alternatively, there are various places to eat near to DCA.

Coach Hire to Dundee

Thanks to those who expressed interest in the coach travel option for the AHM symposium.

Unfortunately we have not received enough responses for this to be feasible.

We hope that you are able to find alternative travel arrangements (bus, train are options), and look forward to seeing you at the symposium.

Photos from exhibition install

David and Sam ponder where to begin!

The vinyl

The exhibition of documentation related to the AHM symposia is open between Wednesday 21 September and Sunday 2 October (open 12:00 – 16:30) in Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, DJCAD (lower floors of DCA)