Kharmageddon: MLOR

Thursday 30 August 2007

MLOR

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Uses/Abuses/Successes/Failiures

I just feel like crying

Dissatisfaction

Stasis

Stillness

I could drive over to your house

Disconnection

Intermittent messages

Static -

Might just as well pull over and park

Mirror signal manoeuvre

Pull out

Pull away

Collision

or not -

Flying on your motorcycle

Taking notes

Like the Metatron

Could be a make of car

The Mazda Metatron

The Ford Despair

The Opel Mantra

The Daihatsu Stupid.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: The Mitsubishi Charisma bypass, The Chrysler Missfire, The Ford Asbo,; 7 September 2007 at 16:33
Anonymous said...: The Volkswagen Passe; 7 September 2007 at 16:34
... said...: This is a bit of a random ramble innit?

I can't even recall now why I titled it "MLOR"

Uses?

Well, a repository for documentary evidence of projected activity and a dumping ground for half baked notions, conceptual mishaps, ability errors, flights of whimsey, sentimentalism, auto didactism, deliberate obfuscation and occasional seepage of psychopathology.

Abuses?

All of the above.

+ autoeroticism.

Successes?

Failiures?

We'll see.; 7 September 2007 at 16:51
... said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7 September 2007 at 17:27

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What is there new to say about car culture that hasn't already been said? My intention with this blog is to address this question in consideration of my own personal history and experience of the motor car. Looking at cars I have owned and other car history within my family. Searching the internet for car statistics and relevant contextual information, referencing publications on car culture with particular reference to Autopia: Cars and Culture - Edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr (Reaktion 2002) - Vrrooom! Vrrooom! Hans Aarsman (NAi Uitgevers - Nederlands Fotomuseum 2003) amongst others.

To some degree this excercise is inspired by my love/hate relationship with the automobile; The costs and other traumas of running a car, a nostalgia for a "Golden age of Motoring" which I am too young to have experienced firsthand, the desire and passion associated with cars (including explorations of Classic car ownership), notions of personal space associated with the car (Road Rage), ephemera, in particular finding uses (in an art context) for the materials I have accumulated over the years which link directly with car culture, other artists with a particular interest in the subject and other stuff I may find along the way.

Using these materials and following threads explored in previous works (particularly "The A-Z of Anger Management") I shall attempt to create a body of work, including: Photography, Video, Digital Images, Model making and set building and maybe even a bit of essay writing!

In part this is an exploration of a personal psychogeography of car culture, using my 1950 Geographers map of Birmingham to guide me I shall drift along the highways and byways.

Simon Hope - April 2007

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Thursday 30 August 2007

MLOR

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