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January 23, 2006
Putting up posters in Brooklyn
Finally went out and put up the 'Drummer Wanted' posters. They've been sitting here for almost 2 weeks now! Lastnight was warm and I had no excuses not to. It was quite spooky... did it alone at 3am, and was paranoid that I'd either get mugged or arrested!? Of course once I'd put a couple up it was kind of a rush ó exhilirating I guess. I tried to work quickly, but the paste I had was pretty shitty and the paper was kind of glossy so I had real problems getting them to stick. I came home feeling like it'd been a bit futile, that they'd either be ripped down or fall off on their own. But I went out today and they were all still up... and a lot of people around cause its a sunny Sunday morning.
This poster was supposed to be a (pragmatic) precursor to what I want to do next (see previous post: January 10, 2006 "Restart / Not Myself")... which I'll try and flesh out here... at this stage I'm planning to produce a series of posters that feature me as different characters. Two at first; the Rev. Holden Gunn (perhaps a different name?) as an evangelical 'save-the-world' type figure, and a monster (Werewolf?) as a doomed, disaster waiting to happen kind of character ... George has pretty much agreed to be my blonde damsel in distress (I'll have to explain that in a seperate post). I've recently decided to publish last year's Monstrous Manifestoes along with some stills from my 'Inviting The Monster' DVD in The National Grid. This retrospective act has re-ignited my interest in them, and the prospect of writing/designing new versions based more around the practitioner than the artefacts... so I'm obviously beginning to consider how these posters might also work as both map and manifesto... describing and prescribing through/around the generative metaphor of monstrosity.
Posted by Luke Wood at January 23, 2006 06:50 AM