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CHASEY IN WONDERLAND
An Exhibition Project
"No, Sweetheart, it all came from porn. These
cunts are the real pioneers. Pornography sneezes and popular culture
catches cold. People want sex, violence, food, pets, DIY and
humiliation. Let`s give them the fuckin lot. Look at humiliation
television, look at the papers and the mags, look at the class system,
the jealousy, the bitterness that oozes out of our culture: (...) we
want to see people get fucked (...)."
In: Welsh, Irvine: Porno. London. 2002
My work is the attempt to visualize
the inseperable connection between the glamorous “pornified” western
civilisation and the horrors that dwell under the surface if our
perception of reality. It is also a try to kick popular culture, who
constantly tries to pocket pornography (and the War! And the Horror!),
in the butt.
Islamists feel terrorized by our liberality. Pornography is Terror.
Nice, cosy Terror.
The diabolical plan to fly planes into the WTC was insofar by all means
an act of pornography. It was an obscene act in many ways. But the sole
visual part of that act has a kind of beauty as many explosions have.
You don’t see the people dying on these pictures, you don’t hear them
scream. The picture of the burning WTC is an abstract we don’t
comprehend. I might as well find beauty in the explosion and the falling
glass. Only behind the media coverage lie all the sorrows and horrors.
Ann
Jones, "It`s my world", C-Print
“Ass to mouth” or “Double Penetrations” are obvious
pornographic acts. Are they as obscene? No. Not at all. There are no
“Weapons of Ass destructions” (Jules
Jordan).
Extreme
Associates` "Asswoman in Wonderland"
The other transfigurations and/or pornografic
exploitations of human catastrophies, the
misery, the agony, the disrespect for human
dignity, also need to be pulled to the surface -
for that their horrors do not stay abstract and
continue not to bother us at all.
Humanity did lose its authorization to be alive
quite some time ago. Vietnam, Hiroshima, Pearl
Harbour, Auschwitz, Srebrenica. Rwanda. We wade
through streets, covered with human bodies,
severed limbs, bones, blood, everywhere. Only,
we keep looking away. Agony and Death have no
place in our concsiousness, everything stays a
TV-Program. And it stays abstract.
Behind these events that we feel are abstract,
behind the Horror, we find small truths. Truths
about nature of man.
Carsten
Weitzmann:
"Elf"
The facades barely crumble.
The connection of porno-asthetics and awfulness
does not illustrate a break - because the
Terror, in this case it might be 9/11, or Pearl
Harbour, or the Challenger Disaster, can be seen
differently as well. But as we percieve events
only as abstracts, we are not in danger to find
any beauty there, nor comprehend the horrors
that constitute our “civilized” way of living.
Because without the immediacy the horrors will
never find their way onto the surfaces, into
human conciousness.
This work is about the horrors below the glamour
of modern life in the western world.
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“Chasey in Wonderland" is about the horrors below the glamour of
modern life in the western world.
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The works of Ann Jones are all Oil on Canvas / Mixed Media.
There are small editions of Printworks.
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"That was a strange one outside hers when she caught me looking up
the stars. I gave that quote from a Nick Cave song and I thought she
called me a cunt. I didn`t realise that she was referring to Kant the
philosopher. I even called Renton up about it. He reckons that Cave
lifted that verbatim from a Kant book. What the fuck is the world coming
to when your favorite lyricists let you down with such shoddy
plagiarism."
In: Welsh, Irvine: Porno. London. 2002
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