PREVIEW BITCHEZ! HOLLAH!

If verbal contracts are worth

the paper they are written on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGjC0wbUXzk

An Haiku

I don’t want attention I just want to be an artist.

No one makes good art in order to be famous, just like no one buys expensive champagne in order to take a big piss. People drink champagne because that’s what people do to fit in to an affluent style of living. A couple of weeks ago I went to a ‘classy’ nightclub in West London, people ordered bottle after bottle of £250 champagne that was brought to tables with indoor fireworks attached. Now, I’m sure it could be levelled that the reason for this was just rich people showing off and wanting the attention their £250 investment deserved, initially I thought the same as the first bottle was brought out. Then, one by one all the tables in the nightclub received their bottle and subsequent fireworks, I continued to surmise that this was just bawdy exhibitionism. That was, until, my table received a bottle.

We fitted in.

We were acknowledged.

I think that there are parallels to be drawn from the darkened ‘glamour’ of the west end night cub to the way in which people (or at least myself) approach the making of artworks. To fit in with Artists and the Art World that they respect so much it is an imperative that I make artworks. I need to have my champagne bottle of a practice creating fireworks of artworks in order to legitimately call myself an Artist. To align myself with those I respect so much.

I don’t want attention I just want validation.




On the other hand this could all be lies

The artist Joshua T Howell has begun to write a self help/how to guide entitled "how to meet women" much like this one;

http://www.wikihow.com/Meet-Women

Possible outcomes of using the guide maybe this;

or even this;

(experiences may vary)

A little puerile fun with wikipedia

*the research of

drag the image below ↓

designed as a way to covertly infiltrate comments pages on websites with image embedding enabled in user comments.

however, as most comments pages do not allow this, this tool is useless and generally results in this;

DOCUMENTATION SEMESTER ONE YEAR TWO

FULLSCREEN FOR BEST RESULTS

http://imaginationaidsforbetterwork.tumblr.com/

A full catalogue of all 9 imagination aids for better work, available as pdf downloads for recipients do as they wish.

in smallest places

we say some of the biggest things

and yet

http://playgroundmag.co.uk/sosonline

A collaboration with Carianne Whitworth and Joshua T Howell.

An online counterpart to a physical magazine, In response to the issue’s theme, a series of images articles and features - selected from the abundant amount of previously published material available on the World Wide Web

Figure Substitutes

The past couple of months i've drifted into an area concerning replacements for the human form.

I suppose it is in the same vein as previous work concerning

making more abstract things material.

at home with the milibandz. . . . . . . lol.

Possible promotional imagery for Faithless Arm & Co. Print & Press

Another self portrait

Brighton 12th May 2010

Zennor 14th May 2010

Code spelling the letter I painted on the front tyre of a bicycle ridden

from Brighton East Sussex to Zennor Cornwall

16th May 2010, 19:40

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a ninth attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the Dorchester area of South West England

No one notices.

14th May 2010, 22:19

the artist Joshua T Howell makes an eighth attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the Crewkerne area of South West England

No one notices.

14th May 2010, 16:54

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a seventh attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the St Ives area of South West England

No one notices.

13th May 2010, 17:13

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a sixth attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the St Agnes area of South West England

No one notices.

12th May 2010, 12:56

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a fifth attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the Havant area of Southern England

No one notices.

12th May 2010, 11:33

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a fourth attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the Chichester area of South East England

No one notices

12th May 2010, 10:41

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a third attempt to contact the outside world

a coded distress signal is released in the Littlehampton area of South East England

No one notices.

4th May 2010, 18:30

the artist Joshua T Howell makes a second attempt to contact the outside world

an artwork is released into the Kemptown area of Brighton South East England

No one notices.

23rd April 2010, 16:05

the artist Joshua T Howell makes his first attempt at contacting the outside world.

A coded distress signal is released in the Shoreham Port area of South East England.

No one notices.

all arrows point towards me.

it would seem that i am attempting to be noticed. i am attempting to become material and permanent rather than a moving form. This trait has recently manifested it self in the creation of things, of objects, of artifacts that connote my existence. physical entities, beacons and signals screaming ‘i am here’.

however, i am not promoting exposure. these objects are not abject statements of exhibitionism, blatant cries for help. they are subtle changes in state, form and context that, although gagged, when unbound ignite an obvious declaration of my sometime presence.

in amongst rubbish, discarded at the back of building sites, buried deep in the ground, thrown over fences, placed upon a train.

minor detournments.

although not in the common sense of the word. i am subverting the idea of rubbish. discarding for the sake of rediscovery. all for the sake of nothing but myself. not in order to draw attention to the nature of culture, the mechanics of society or the systems on which we depend but in order to fulfill a deep seeded need to be noticed and remembered albeit in the smallest and most insignificant of microcosms.

the fact that the artist joshua t howell was once here is of no interest to the general public.

there are strict guidelines to the art (this is what, for now, it shall be called).

1. all acts must result in the creation and utilisation of an object. be it a newly created or appropriated forms the work must exist.

1. there should be no obvious audience for the subsequent outcome of the work. this merely notes that there should not be an intended audience and therefore an intended reception of the work.

1. all conscious decisions as to form must be based upon the aesthetic. although functional considerations may be addressed these should be secondary.

1. the acts must be established as art. grounding in the context of art must be established by the documentation of the act by a member of the art community. this documentation could consist of anything from witnessing the act to being told a short description of what happened.

a photograph of the artist reflected in an elvis mirror

an attempt to depict the process of work as a complicated exercise in aesthetics

35mm photograph

picture frame

silver chain

matchsticks

Folly?

An artist led platform intent on showing the work of young and exciting artists in brighton

Held at the Hope

a great many people attended

Intended as an antidote to monotonous student nightlife

The Internet 2.0 Beta

500 sheets of blank white paper

HB pencil with rubber

Hanimex camera

Kodak Colour 35mm film

A response to a brief in which the artist was asked to create a work that could be handed on in a chain of artists, to be developed and edited

on handing over the objects the recipient was instructed to re-interpret the internet in an analogue format as best they could

due to break down in communications the project failed to progress far

mixing art with politics yeah!?

A4 Paper

Biro

A response to a reading of Georges Perec, the artist was asked to create a piece of work to evoke a sense of place.

a recent development from the ideas around

the imagination aid for better living

it must be pointed out that the intention is not to 'break' Wikipedia but merely to use the online encyclopaedia as a tool in a cycle of validation of artistic actions

A Story

Flip book

paper

metal clip

three pictures

My name in light

paper on 150w lamp

Photograph taken in the Brighton Charter Hotel 20th Dec 2009

35mm photograph

Photograph taken from the Brighton Charter Hotel Date Unknown

Found 35mm photograph

A pamphlet created as an antidote to creative block

relating 'found' numbers to irrelevant research