Tuesday, August 4, 2009

LAZY EYE







Having worked with the idea of undermining authorship for most of 2008,I started thinking about the dissemination of and access to information and knowledge.Inspired by Josef Beuys' public lectures and his radical ideas and objective to afford the greater public access to the same information given at the university at which he worked at the time, I set out to publish videos of three English literature lectures that I had "illegally" sat in on. I found that the idea of the University was somewhat ideologically compromised by the school's regulations which prohibit even students of the university to sit in on lectures that they are interested in but are not registered for.This illustrated that there are regulations and restrictions placed on who can access information,knowledge and ideas-things which are immaterial. These three URLs are short youtube videos of the three respective lectures which I exhibited at Gordart contemporary as part of Lazy Eye, an exhibition curated by Michael Smith.

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