Monday, May 5, 2008

who will

ever know?


If you want to read rubbish that isn't about these topics of 'institution' 'Publication' 'Artist' 'Medium' 'Gallery' particularly.. visit my other blog www.randlematthew.blogspot.com

i think

you've done enough

will you

pass?

create

a new post about something i read about Madonna in Q .. my sister has the may edition. I read some in her car. I like the ways in which she  answers questions,. One asked which the favourite songs in her catalogue were .. she responded very much in the way that I feel at most things. . it completely depends on what day it is and how you feel and what particular sounds and ideas concepts you are liking at that point .. . time she talks of .. it is an illusion like space. I find it strange that I seem to agree with her.



Alex says that I am a Madonna fiend.

Shrigley, David

I found a page in Simon's room on the top floor and it made me laugh. ... partly because it talked to me about the collaborative bollocks work that happens relating to how eggs are everywhere and mean everything at once. . it says part of currency is wasps and eggs and nails..

the bit relating to looking that I liked and thought i'd note on my brain... a page said that by looking at the leaf or plant it withered faster..

similar kind of stance to what warnell thought
write about philip warnells philosophy of looking.. it has to be active and that looking and being an observer, one changes the situation.

Collaborative Bollocks are posers.



This drawing Claire starts the top , the techenique of folding and then continuing with the next artist. It makes me .


make me laugh.

 

What is collaborative bollocks?

What is our philiosophy?

philosophy is our philosophy.

Do we need a philosophy?

What is our philosophy?

I don’t know.

Thanks Karl.

No problem.

 

our work fluidity. medium is broad, performance, painting , music, philosophy. Fish. eggs.

Paint on the grey floor with yellow paint. Lo Claire.

Nothing. Take away the nothing. a big nothing we carry around. Zero. hide nothing on a cabinet. 70- nothing is like 7.

 (mostly from messenger conversations)

jim lambie .. there was a time in oxford during the

cut hair with blunt scissors

gaymes

eat chips in the hail.

sculpture make with the chips in a flower pot on a ledge by some washing.

 frames in art foundation. we carry them and them is us.

drawings in a restaurant

talk about the plug... take a photo of the plug i pulled from a wall.

eat cereal and tea off the surfaces. link to facebook drawing by Raab.

more coherance?

Publication

Modern Painters . starts in.. looking in april 2008 edition..

the start. Peter Fuller in 1987.. John Ruskin’s book Modern Painters...

look at page 24 of the one that april i bought in the tate britain.

 

Recently I’ve been reading it.. introduced by dave hyde one of the tutors on my foundation course, enjoyed flicking through the several issues in the college library with friends  on a few occasions. Broad nature of the publication.. it’s in a language I can understand.

Adverts I really like.. I almost booked a ticket to Berlin due to one of them.

Makes me go to shows. Influential to me.

 

 

The Matthew collings .. style diary part i like.. kind of reminds me of how i would like to be able to write. . not sure if i’m a fan but enjoy reading it.. some of the points i become quite engaged in and sometimes frustrated with .

 

Format. Moving changing nature. Set myself the difficult task

 

Peter Doig

 

aaargh I don’t like it very much the reasons perhaps the bigger paintings make me angry and i can’t feel much from it. The  little ones rock my boat a bit better. I think i almost got an explanation out of myself. I think it's because the little ones have all the freshness of the idea in it. The larger ones are just an assemblage to make a pretty postcard for ARt and money. I know that is what has to be done and i appreciate it. It just makes me not like the pictures.

I don’t like writing about things because it makes me feel uncomfortable reading it back to myself.

 

Painting s fun. The contents page and typography and that i know what i’m reading/ in relation to magazine. the language. seems like a simple start to the beginner of art. doesn’t seem like i shuld be knowing much already. lots of adverts that look tempting. that’s how i came across some painters and almost made me go to berlin next week. 

Lambie

play with nick. wet. that might happen if you do. Nick told me not to talk. I like some of the stuff that is on the walls. I’ll write about observation. I really find it sad that the work in the show is not in a way that is like what is in their books;’.,the second year fine art students. how many layers? some was one. i like that there is an apple sticker on the apple. back laptop of. Lulu wants to draw on my. Liv is the name of a daughter. Rod has my passport. Alex put paper in the bin. are the spelling mistakes meant to be there. that was what richard said. it was a response to what viv says says richard. I need to book train tickets. Does anybody want a runner bean? It’s like there are 4 people . one of them is in a computer on a box.  viv is scared to talk to pfaces. nick. animals. Jenny went to do some blog. spop. elizabeth has pop on her. richard does not have money for pop. Chair. used as a chair. Capital letters. Berlin Wall. elizabeth. people have memories and skills. that is the same. What do you think of your seles. ?/??/?///?/?///?/?/???/?/?/?////??//////?//////////////////// man//slash//woman. /////////?/////?////?/???????????????/??//?//?/?///////////////////???/?/???//?/?/?/?/?/?/???///////////////////////////////??/?/////?/////??????????????????????????????????????????????/??/??///?????DddjdKDDLDHow ca y you be sour rude. i make workdss upl. .. how about some fition. I haven’t don thatha for a hllre. typine in the aegetnteral  difrection of the o buttions. Ikno do of lookng i at the words in omy wheawd what i wan tto como on the papepr.sgt peepppers lonely heats club band. saplelling sapling. what do worsds ooking like? look .lookllike. shap3es like find tthings and what do they make in your brain. emotions. I did the thought of that for yellow .. looking. that is a thing i can write about for my blog in niigt. nit innit knit in it. cann you kniet me a tie a tie attire. tyre tere.terar tier tier tier reit ite tleil light ltight tight like light rifle. gun spop lsok sok scko sock school loos shoasl shoal which which withdc tand dance lisa is a l lisa is all lika lis a lis lis bed bread english dixon hayley currys pc world indian call center phonepen matt borrow aalll steal wheel weld spent pent went dent groove ridge. hello your whose hat am i wearing. I have no idea. concepts. loose lose lst lust absensc3 absinthe green nick told me not to talk. I do. It makes me think about what i say. limits . what are they reserved. Hello. Ed head dead death food life. marcus nick dina constantinour wall legs photos nees ne jayne je ne shoes feet legs eggs well being stuff snot bile yellow bag shag WAG hair lists rachel randle panhandle keep doing it hot cold wiggle stomach clothes swedish yellow wordschange when you stick them together. they change when you put them beside other words. just words. what is what? words . no what? ‘what’? there is not enough time to do all the things i want to sdo says i to viv. learn to use a camera and light and dark. Jenny says i could do some work with black and white. bum. it’s a list this. thought is really strange. one day i did a thing in my mind where it was assosciations it goes so fast speed is incredible. is this your blog? says nick. people give and do things that is makes me happy and  i see as sound advice. this will be my blog. I’ll edit some of it to make on another blog for the tutors to see. light and dark. tonality. colour timbre. as i was going saying too many things and no punctuation.  other workds. worlds are not enough save the planetsl have you got any cheese. i met randle there tasting cheeses, mouth shapes. aaah. that’s so pretty. helmet on a chair. jt.jt.jt.jt.jt.jt.jt/jt/jt.jtm.jt.ht,j.jtjt,.h,hmjmjt,.kyk.mjk,jgm,htk.,tj..krj..yjyj,.tk,hy.,h,,ht.y.,.,jt,.jt.,j...jk..mhrj,j.hr.jkyt,....jtj,,.,j..r./.rj..geh,,not  masttursbbatinbdfnggkgo on. in a shower in a grave masturbating furiously with a hat on. interstella relations.drunk again i would be rich and you’d stuill be mine sutil srace. i want to buy some more cling film. and black and white film. old school film with captions. may the 4th. i can’t say that to richard. oh. yes i can. that being a sunday morning not far from now. It’s strange to predict the water future. he will should pour i would like it . it’s better than money. from a tap please. perhaps distilled into a glass or other similar receptical that one can hold easily in a hand preferably with one hole. it could have two. one for the liquid to go in and out and one for the fingers to go in and out.

the looking thing again muse over be selective of one thing not just my whole mind. today was the first time i have felt for  a long time. nothing material. looking for holes that don’t exist. existance. lisa doesn’t like philosophy. there’s other things to think about instead of wasting time on things that don’t matter. it was something like that she said. what is looking at things in the mind. it is imagery. i think i said that it doesn’t have dimensions could it . so drunk i could feel my face. that bit about face was not me , just someting that someone i think nick said. he was quoting someone else. stir with nick . “it’s all air” dirty. dotty ditty. ditz. dicks. dixon,. too hot with my jacket on . too cold otherwise. i didn’t want to say too cold without a jacket because that would have . finnish sentences?immigration?noNO. lisa affects an english accent. askew ask you. ass grew some stuArt

 

tap.tap tap f....d...d...d.d...d.d..dd. something that interests you. wrap. tap. rap rap brap.

amy was there when I bought my laptop. there’s a little bit of me in the works .. some more obvious than others. by being there is influence on every other being.

 

slippery. slippery. it’s what keith would say about my work. that comes from me looking at steve hurtado’s work. slippery with vaseline. it looks like the black thing could be  a plinth to display.. it’s curved and slippery though and therefore would be difficult to . like curtains objects to hide or screen but there is not much. part burn. so we should be able to ‘see’ whatever it was hiding. we can’t.

drink

some water. I tried to write an essay a few months ago about an artwork by collaborative bollocks. it was really difficult. To complete it I feel like I need to learn and research. One step I think will be to watch the film 'Control' Here is the artwork in question 

i ought

to


show some more work of collaborative bollocks because it is soooo my favourite at the moment.. i want to put the jewellery image here.

is dry


and

this image came from the transient gallery show involving HD and RBG.
there were artworks. you can see some between the people . there were labels.. yk., rh.. sl... i'm not sure if i made them up or not.. one time that there was a party someone dressed up as an artwork that was sl.. and felt more manly dressed as a lady.

Nature and cat hill



Peter Fuller. Collaborative bollocks. Modern painters.
This was a visit by the group collective at some point before the end of december 2007 , not exactly sure when it was. there was wetherspoons and reading of modern painters. Part of the philosophy of collaborative bollocks is to notice the links and smile when we see our friends in other peoples art and writing and just generally in the world.
We looked in the library for our birthtime modern painters edition. It makes us smile and happy. Bacon. I want to put the picture of bacon that happened during foundation that was collaborative bollocks. the reason i mention that here is because there was an article about him... francis.

i got scared

one day when I watched Educating Rita.
I think it was last year. I want to see that film again. It has Julie  in it.
The reason I put it in here is because I thought of it on the topic of looking. People in it have a huge contrast of the way of looking at the texts. I was scared because .. hmmm. . . the whole education thing and theme of the film. That the study under kind of rules narrows your mind. I don't think that has happened to me.. and i'm enjoying it all.

copenhagen interpretation

just by looking at the small things they change their physical being. they no longer whizz around with funny rules  quantum mechanics.. they become a neat particle that one can view. Who said that?

Bohr?

schroodiner coudn't understand . his cat? a cat is in a chamber with radioactive stuff a geiger counter and something else. he didn't do it for real. randomly  the radi... poison too. if they decay in the radioactive stuff  hammer breaks the poison and the cat dies.... without viewing there are two states... alive cat and dead cat. paradox that there is a world with a dead cat and a live one simultaneosly. 

Parallel worlds.. Parallel lives.

I like physics and stuff. I just would like to be slightly more committed to just one part of something to look at.


  hugh everett III tells of parallel universes.. two universes.. one with alive cat and one with a dead one.

ladbroooookes and Sport

not my kind of way of thinking about looking. but it is one way. it is in the advert break on Dave for Bottom. The Daily sport says men in the beginning looked and enjoy  sport, women and funny things. then it all changes for a bit and we use wheely cases and moisturiser.. to not let this get too much in our life it seems we must buy the sport to get more sport, girls and funny things. I don't really see the appeal of the gambling thing advert , kind of advertising not looking and laziness.. a man had explored and put his body to the extreme with climbing only for the man to mock him and at the end say that the climbing man could have maximum thrill just from a website.... I think this is rubbish.. surely there's so much out there , who would want to be stuck on the silly websites all the time when you want some fun. 

the first time

I bought Modern Painters was the dec2006-jan2007 edition. I was drawn to an advert for William Tillyer.. The Revisionist Wire Works (Bernard Jacobson Gallery).
About 1 month ago I saw some work by the same artist and instantly recognised the style. It made me smile and happy for someone. I'm not sure.. just happy all over. 

write about loooking

something. pointy shoes.

Another try at writing about modern painters and looking;

my own what i am thinking about is trying to see the difference or similarity of the looking.  Personally I’ve only been looking and observing since the start of foundation .. life drawing   one really has to look intently closely at what there is going on. lights and darks. shape and form within form. drawing is looking. looking with the eyes mind minds eyee tracing the motions your brain moves eyes to the hand.  .. but it’s not just the eyes that get the drawing going . it’s the atmoshphere, smells pressure how hungry one feels anxiety.density of people humidity sounds music position in the room . who is looking at you and how. so many factors. . what.. looking is with all your senses and thought.

'Artist' examples of work













Collaborative Bollocks

'Medium' conversations with Alison Gill

Looking

I and her were discussing in a tutorial. I explained that during my work on RBG I was actively looking for specific items in the world,. i mean colours red blue and green items in a cluster together. when one does this I've found that they appear stand out more. --therefore you always find something if you are looking for it. aasrgh. she seemed to agree. 

The other bit i was thinking was the influences in the objects and work around the studio. even if you are not looking specifically for certain aspects in the world... we all subconciously pick up traits of each other and project them out of us in how we act and our work. I was listening to brendan talking to maria about this while i was setting up my work. 
I am an illustration of your mind.

'Artist' a philosophy

The artist (Collaborative Bollocks) believes in freedom for all to art and let it be. They want to you see the work and see the fun. Art comes from fun work together. Ideas bounce and fly faster with two. The artist takes great pride in their work and was willing to let me show some of the imagery curated and created. In the main, the group believe that we don't need to always labels everything in the world as art and discriminate all those that are not. It's sometimes fun to have these though. Personally I feel that they are laughing at  while simultaneously embracing all the silly cheesy theory.

a bit more.
We all created this group, mostly though it is a 2 show of me and Claire. It is serious and a great balance to the work I create at university which is constantly open and viewed for criticism. I take the collaboration as a major part of my life and something that needs to be talked about. It is what I consider to be the truer part of the fart. Even though Claire was not around for creating the work for the signal gallery show, i feel she was the creator as much as me. I feel a strange tension between both sides of the practice. The piece...
.'I Don't Have Integrity' was born out of the frustration that we have with the hilarity of the art world. Full of personal references and figures we talk about. Fine artists are self indulgent. I stole that from a flyer for a talk at mauger modern art that was to be about illustration and fine art and the tensions between them. I wanted the piece to be purely self indulgent... that didn't happen really which made me laugh quite a bit because the owners of the gallery wanted more mess on their walls.. hoorah!! the essence of collaborative bollocks!! make a mess and have fun.

'medium' 23rd/24th April2008

Looking

I’ve been looking at the ways of looking at a space and observing it. I’ve struggled to keep to one particular format. Returned to my obsession with people. the thought of yellow... and red blue and green to cure it, happy thoughts of food and people and drink.   Shapes. My friends say it is a love to hate yellow. I must keep my mysterious facade and not give it away. I’ll be calling the latest bit on the wall. ‘love and wall’. I like shapes and how we relate to them. The shape of a collage I was creating I was reminded of Jim Lambie who I seem to consistantly become drawn to ... the last piece being ‘weird glow’ . Like what he seems to be thinking, I originally wanted the shape to kind of have an amorphous tinge, ready to be whatever the viewer believes, then changed my mind.

 

 

 

 

The time I was asleep I was woken by steph and rosie at my door Wednesday 23rd april 2008. Can I sort out the photos , they could be fallen to the floor. Steve and me and viv all like the tampon tree suvi made. I sat jennifer’s disposal bag atop the object which found its way into a book of suvi. I had some water in luci’s glass. Lambie people all say that yasmins work is like. Brendan came round looking at the spaces and tells us about how we are all coherent and lift from each other. I know that it is true. It was yesterday then that I heard anything about an opinion on a difference between drawing and painting.  I don’t think i was particularly listening hard or intently as i cannot remember much .. maria said about painting being a kind of fluid action with something. I want water. water wants. we are water.  Michael is to meet a friend in the bar. the bar . the bar subar. sue bar bar am david. i missed. we didn’t have to run faster than time. wolf turbo tardis .

 

 

 

Suvi said it was good she liked the fact that people could be thinking and expecting something huge and grand. people thought i was going to take ;my clothes off . It shocked them that i wasn’t.

 

I’ve been happy all day and no alcohol. talked to claire and a different claire was oxford. She text me as i saw 1213 wetherspoon southgate. It’s hard to explain to people briefly what it is all about. keith wants more discourse as does michael. Brendon says he could see the humour in it. Someone else says that it was brave.. perhpaps marcus said that. It is quite the scary..if you look over there .. people also look over there or was it at you.? the first time that i planned to do it i had to make him decide what time it was.. part of it i think... the love.. him and his work to influence time of mine. I think i did it 4 times.  the first one was when I led anne to my work she was asking if it was a performance.. i told her that i didn’t know what a performance was and that i would be thinking it great if she says that was it.. a technical term? yes she says that is a technical term for it> while it happened i talked to jarreettt and talked about his shoes.>On later inspection he didn’t realise that this was the thing that was the work.  .. that is good. the idea is that people wear and do things that are not always obvious all the time with intention and reason for particular purposes. Perhaps I just wanted to get changed. It was more than that but it  is great to be able to just get changed and then try and construct a silly analogy. my favourite bits were when maria was adament that she put her boyfriend’s dad’s towel (which was red blue and green and arranged beautifully in the shape of my outline that was already on the floor) away and out of sight.. It wasn’t when I found it. . so I drew round it and took a phhotograph. charlie and simon and ashleigh were yellow.

woody allen filme... love and ... is keith talking about love and death. He mentioned the allen person. love and wall for me my title . wall could sound like war . i liked that when i thought of it.

 

'Medium' 19th April2008

Today I lay on a floor cold and grey and it is so noisy. I think and link in  my head so fast that I can’t keep up. My brain cannot decide how best to present itself art. Jenny helps me buy an orange. I put sugar in the relentless at the non smoking area which has a sign that says smoking area. Froth. I don’t remember particularly listening look attentively when Tom Dumas spoke to Natasha but when neither of them knew what was said I could quote it apart from one word that when tom said.. ‘apart from one word’ i could instantly recall what it was. I can’t now though. Interested this is how I am at the ways of looking observation.i’m 

'Publication'

Modern Painters

Hayley bought me the May edition on the 4th may. It has a Louise Bourgeois image on the front cover. 

there's always naked people pictures. 
Frieze art fair was all about sex and owls says the conversation yesterday of may the 4th.
THere are lots of adverts and it makes me feel uneasy because after flicking through and reading parts I feel I recognise parts ... unwittingly have become part of it. one advert is for AGALLERY with one of the images being 'Minotaur Reading' by Beth Carer, Bronze, 40cm high, an edition of 25. I saw some of her stuff at Mauger Modern art gallery in Bath.


In one of the editions I bought (Modern Painters Feb2008) the adverts almost made me fly to berlin to see... Emilio Vedova

'Gallery'

Transient Gallery

this is a link to transient gallery website

I've been to see a few of the films hosted by the gallery.
A brief encounter
mary poppins; Transient gallery. One film was mary poppins.

We’re going to buy some fish.

The lady mrs banks made me feel sad. she seems all left.

the man and men fly in a kite fashion. the ones who are mad are the ones who are quiet and cannot see very far. but conversely the ones who show the real emotions are portrayed and .blah blah as the ones without. mr banks. ..’you don’t exist’ “kindly do not try to cloud the issue with facts.” Parts of the way the characters are treated make me laugh and feel sad. Admiral Boom does his business and nobody seems to mind. So surreal that nobody notices, perhaps they just think him mad and walk on by. I laughed when I saw a recent dr who.. the one in the latest 4th series , episode 2 where Donna and The Doctor help hold items and objects in place during the shaking.. I thought it a reference to Mary Poppins and the shakiness produced by the gun of Boom.

 

Kite shape with his legs in the bank when he understand the smith and woodlen leg joke. what’s the name of the other one? high. high on substance? life. death!


3colours blue
3colours white
3colours red (Jurassic Park)... we couldn't understand the red film because it didn't have english subtitles.
Delicatessen
2001 A space odyssey\
A clockwork orange


I missed yellow submarine but one of the curators drew me a yellow submarine in one of my books.
 The chocolate tate box sugar, I ate some sugar. A review perhaps. 




write about the gallery that I'm interested in. The display of 
find the bit on the website that hayley says.
the original curators I have become aquaintances with , Clare Asquith, Becky Price, Amy Honour, Richard Grange, Hayley Dixon

I seem to be attending most of what work 
a particular piece.

 the latest piece I consider myself witness to curated by the team, a brown strip near to the rear entrance of Wood Green Morrisons

The transient gallery. there are some people who I know . I saw a show. I like it. even thought about exhibiting. giles had a day where we all could learn things. one day I did some knitting while passing. insert picture here. Hayley dixon richard bernard grange. claire asquith. picture of her painting the wall. picture here. 

A text from Brendon to hayley has a proposal wants to go around london putting up umbrellas he shall check the legal side of it. wants to make it to the paper even perhaps the local news. (by that I guess he means the television) 


Artist


Collaborative Bollocks

blue and white. the lady didn’t like our late night wine bar.  I think i better explain that better.. The collective travelled down the hill in Bath, creating music with harmonica and recorder. Continue to relate to each other . sounds. we based one on Tom Taylor and how he loves late night wine bars. We did some depending on how our feet were moving. The mind gets lost and engulfed with the feelings and relations between the players and we seemed to glide through the city without stopping progressing through packed roads and then stop. A lady wants to buy Claire's hat we made them all smile. that is the art.  . then to M&S . The walk around continue to lose yourself in the music expression. Change the music reacting to the happy responses. a snake of children clapping and dancing behind us. we don't know where we will go. I was a little unsure about going round the store again as one of the young ones suggested but we did anyway. They tried to give money to the music makers but that was not required. small children smiles . Waitrose was really great because the staff all laughed and smile so our job was done.Irony followed.. we got to the victoria art gallery foyer and the lady said "do you mind not doing that in here please" I couldn't keep a straight face. we thought it would be THe place for artistic expression.. an art gallery. we wouldn't evn be there long.  Sound.. sound using it to respond to the area. launderette. blue launderette and white. Visual and verbal french literature. culture are you nature yet? No. we had a queue of children behind us in waitrose. that is art. not art on my walls. the being. /Collaborations of friends and jazz. Speed dating. The outcomes of talk were that we talked. I talked and that was fun. confidence. 


Talked to suvi about paint 1.77 from atlantis algate east. gouache. I like the fact that temporary could be of the results, you get it wet and it runs.

I have chosen to look at 2 artists . they are both collectives

Collaborative Bollocks is an artish based group
Formed in 2006 , it is a kind of transient group. I like to think of us as some sort of flimsy watery powder paint or scrap of newspaper
We put 12's on a wall.
We paint on floors
We love art on trolleys . it's all about fun and not about what the pretentious people call Art.
we draw pictures in comment books. 
We paint plates.
We write stories together in restaurants.
we draw.
ucan draw. we make proposals for trolleys that never happen. 
We make stories about circuses.
we go to late night wine bars in our heads while composing and peforming impovisations on harmonica and recorder and dance troupes following us through marks and spencers.
we are all going to live in a big house and play chess all night and drift.
Members include sometimes Sarah jane, matthew randle , claire little, karl dando, alec stevens, catherine lambert and whoever else wants to join.





Too Many Cocks
is a music based band , conceptual as we never create any sounds. it's the idea and the name surrounding wonderful relationships between fellow human beings. I am rubbish at doing research and don't know how to find books about the things that I want to read about. It's loosely based on Too many cooks spoil the broth?



'Institution'

Madonna

this will be brief. Charlie wanted to make a madonna tribute band. this is my application. 



I hear Frozen. me and alex and viv sat on a sofa and talked and watched the video. cunningham. then to bjork , then athens and big dresses but that's another topic.
maddonalicious was a website that i saw on the screen. alex tells of how the american life video was banned because of war in Iraq. He said she (madonna) took the decision to do this herself. 
One day I was flicking through the various channels on the television. 
I saw a andreas gers .. photograph of a madonna concert in the tour 2001. This is something that i had heard before.

'Medium'

Looking.

I tried to find a book about what Jenny was talking to me about in the pub on the thursday 22th april. I couldn't find one. Michael was telling about the creative people and how writers and these arty folk look and look in completely different ways. 
Jenny says about a day workshop in which she had to look at a room for the whole day. Details and look deeply at it all.
I talked to richard and said that I looked and read his artists statement that he wrote/put on the wall to accompany the second year show. There was a different kind of looking and attention. Active or passive reading and looking. I remembered that the quote on it was from American History X. It also said that someone else said that writings should end with a good quote.  I happened to stumble upon that text on his blog. "... to actively work... " 
Richard says to look at his blog about the active and passive. I couldn't find it but read about what he writes about Viv's practice.

I was talking to Libby, a third year fine art student while helping with her work on 2nd may 2008 and we were discussing the topic. She is much more an aural person listening. talking about . I explained that there is sooo much whizzing around to sense here in this world that it's incredibly difficult to be selective... well. I mean that consciously looking  see the active passive bit that i was talking to michael, jenny, richard,it is hard to . one has to have thought about the way they view and observe it in order to change the way they view it. 

one favourite place is the launderette so much i close my eyes and hum.

to look and engage?

v

The whole of what this medium I'm looking into is 'loooking' mostly seeing with the brain, moreover the observations and how completely different everyone interprets what it is, means and how one goes about the process of observation.

On the first morning of my stay in north london I aquired a book. ways of seeing by john berger. I read most of it a few months later. I can't remember much or indeed any of it.

the context place is always different. but my brain is just looking at it starting to look at it all in similar ways as if they are all art gallerys