Mark Titchner
Saw Three Minute Wonder by Emily Dixon on TV a few weeks ago about Mark Titchner. (Can be found here) I hadn’t heard of him before but his use of media references as a found object (”found text and pre-exsistent ideas”), his very overt subversion of the language of modern media and his “Graphic sensibility”, interested me and relates to the work I’ve been trying to do
Turns out he was a Turner prize nominee (2006) this year (Three Minute Wonder was a tate production, & Mel assures me that his nomination was mentioned in the piece).
Anyhoo, more of my thoughts after the jump. . .
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Here are a few of the things that grabbed me in relation to Marks work.
A little excerpt I’ve transcribed from Mark Titchner Video Interview at http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2006/marktitchner.htm (at approx 2mins50sec) (Most of the superlatives edited for a low-irritation factor)
All of these things (his found text/images/ideas) philosophy and pop-music, everything was filtered through language.
If you see a word you can’t stop yourself from reading it, and at that point there’s a really important interaction. And there’s this whole idea about authority. And everything comes through this relationship that we have with language and I realised that that moment when you read something is incredibly powerful. Like at that point your mind’s kind of open, you analyse it afterwards, and that internalisation of language, and that relationship to the power of words has completely saturated my work ever since then. There’s hardly anything I do now that doesn’t have a text component.
This is transcribed from Three Minute Wonder, on the same web page (see above)
Particularly (my) digital work as I try to make the image so overloaded or so graphically strong that they almost break, they become ridiculous
The light boxes, in isolation, seem to sort of suggest this moment of rapture, this moment of ecstasy, this moment of kind of understanding, of some truth being revealed. But once you start seeing them in series you begin to realise that actually what it’s about is emptying meaning out from text which is what happens every day. There are more and more messages fighting, for some kind of supremacy. So these light boxes, I suppose in particular, they offer a lot, but they’re not really offering you anything.
I’d give you some links, but honestly - go Google!