These are stills from the video soundhouse. See it on Youtube. Some non-video work coming soon.
Friday, June 13, 2008
soundhouse stills...
These are stills from the video soundhouse. See it on Youtube. Some non-video work coming soon.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
video stills...
These first two images are from a vide titled "breathing." The second two are from "lost." Both can be seen on Youtube -- search laney2217 -- other videos are also online there. I'm also making "stills" from the videos. In other words photographic prints of images from the videos that are works in themselves.
The images and the videos, particularly the one titled "breathing," deal with a space in-between.
what it is... my artist's statement
This blog focuses on my work as an artist. I will periodically post images and links to videos. Please feel free to feedback.
lane cooper – artist statement
General statement:
I have a hard time letting go of the body. I cannot let go of text. I approach text as a Gnostic – every read reveals. Every work is a text.
My process is poetic – semiotics and constructions – demonstrated meanings through context and (juxta)position, through construct and metaphor – art is the realm of the mind – The mind is the space in which reality is called into being, a place of conceit and connection.
My work strives to provide access to this space – to open “the doors of perception” – William Blake’s doors - not Aldus Huxley’s or Jim Morrison’s. Reading the works and critical analyses of Plato, Plotinus, Chomsky, Beuys, Bochner, Baldessari and Chin have influenced my thinking. I also enjoy reading Umberto Eco, et. al.
At its worst my work is didactic. At its best it is text – open and non-linear in which the audience is co-author.
Concerns which drive my work:
Epistemology – the study of the nature of knowledge, its possible validity
Metaphysical – an umbrella arching over the physical; extremely abstract or theoretical; without material form or substance; originating not in the physical world but somewhere outside it.
Language, the foundation of text and the material of the mind: frames, calls into being, allows conception, provides meaning. It originates not in the physical world but in the realm of the mind.
Gnosticism – “salvation” comes from learning esoteric “truths” that free humanity from the material world…
In application, the (re)reading of a text, and the (re)investigation of a set of ideas.
Agnosticism – not knowing and knowing not knowing; to question.
Material vs. immaterial; commodity vs. de-commodity; real vs. perceived value.
lane cooper – artist statement
General statement:
I have a hard time letting go of the body. I cannot let go of text. I approach text as a Gnostic – every read reveals. Every work is a text.
My process is poetic – semiotics and constructions – demonstrated meanings through context and (juxta)position, through construct and metaphor – art is the realm of the mind – The mind is the space in which reality is called into being, a place of conceit and connection.
My work strives to provide access to this space – to open “the doors of perception” – William Blake’s doors - not Aldus Huxley’s or Jim Morrison’s. Reading the works and critical analyses of Plato, Plotinus, Chomsky, Beuys, Bochner, Baldessari and Chin have influenced my thinking. I also enjoy reading Umberto Eco, et. al.
At its worst my work is didactic. At its best it is text – open and non-linear in which the audience is co-author.
Concerns which drive my work:
Epistemology – the study of the nature of knowledge, its possible validity
Metaphysical – an umbrella arching over the physical; extremely abstract or theoretical; without material form or substance; originating not in the physical world but somewhere outside it.
Language, the foundation of text and the material of the mind: frames, calls into being, allows conception, provides meaning. It originates not in the physical world but in the realm of the mind.
Gnosticism – “salvation” comes from learning esoteric “truths” that free humanity from the material world…
In application, the (re)reading of a text, and the (re)investigation of a set of ideas.
Agnosticism – not knowing and knowing not knowing; to question.
Material vs. immaterial; commodity vs. de-commodity; real vs. perceived value.
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