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Kharmageddon

We're running out of resources but we're still addicted to our automobiles. Is there a cure for this dread disease?

Monday, 18 June 2007

Projected memory 01


Thought transferrence onto CCD
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Dead Beetle (Volkswaganus Carapacia)


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Sunday, 17 June 2007

Untitled (Red, Gold & Green 01)


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Bang goes the no claims bonus


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Sunday, 3 June 2007

Stop


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Lets get serious!


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Sideways DB5


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Sideways E Type


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Reps Delight Circa 1979


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Truck Full O'Trucks


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Karmah/Kharmageddon

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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

Drive me crazy

  • Buicks For Sale
  • Duwaynes world (CAUTION: Some adult content!)
  • Capris Galore
  • Buy the book 01
  • Video Art Resources
  • Is that a copy of Simulacra & Simulation in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (The A-Z of Artbollox Pt2)
  • Fun with Deconstruction (The A-Z of Artbollox Pt1)
  • Art Car Museum Houston
  • Alternative 01?
  • You want cars in the movies?!
  • Tiny bits
  • Slotcar Fanatics
  • Bored?
  • Colleague 01
  • Ballardian
  • The Nike of Samothrace
  • Datsun 260c Lo-Rider
  • Tundra In Action

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      • Bang goes the no claims bonus
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      • Lets get serious!
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