What is “psychic pop vandalism”?
- Marking directly onto found paper; books, magazines, flyers, circulars, banknotes, brochures, advertising, junkmail, etc…
- Combining found paper (books, magazines, flyers, circulars, banknotes, brochures, advertising, junkmail, etc…) with paintings and drawings.
- Combines the practice of collage with the practice of mark making and vice versa.
- Vandalism occurs in either format. Traditional paintings and drawings are violated by the introduction of found printed, photographic or appropriated material. Likewise, printed and photographic materials are graffiti’d with personal mark making.
- “Psychic Pop Vandalism” creates the unexpected juxtaposition of;
Printed Material vs. Mark Making
Hi-Tech vs. Lo-Fi Universal vs. Personal Modern vs. Primitive Historical vs. Ephemeral Empirical vs. Expressionist Fashionable vs. Idiosyncratic “Psychic Pop Vandalism” has at its core the practices of Dadaism, Surrealism, Collage, and Pop Art. Each of these practices subverts the original context of the appropriated pictorial element and creates a new pictorial space within which the traditional elements are now in juxtaposition, or are mutated, or recombined to create a new visual paradigm.
PSYCHIC The word "psychic" is derived from the Greek word psychikos ("of the mind" or "mental"), and refers in part to the human mind or psyche (i.e. "psychic turmoil"). The Greek word also means "soul". In Greek mythology, the maiden Psyche was the deification of the human soul. The word derivation of the Latin psȳchē is from the Greek psȳchḗ, literally "breath", derivative of psȳ́chein, to breathe or to blow (hence, to live). POP Pop (also called pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture is sometimes viewed by many people as being trivial and "dumbed down" in order to find consensual acceptance from (or to attract attention amongst) the mainstream. “Pop music” is an example of this. “Pop art” is not, it is in fact the opposite paradigm. “Pop art” is an art practice wherein the artist appropriates imagery, slogans and objects from popular culture, and places them into an esoteric object that is only understood and collected by the wealthy elite. VANDALISM The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement, directed towards any property, without permission of the owner. The term finds its roots in the Germanic tribe The Vandals’ overthrow of the corrupt Roman Empire. The term Vandalisme was coined in 1794 to describe the destruction of artwork following the French Revolution. |