Author Archives: brogan

Close to a year ago, the Belgian-Mexican artist, Francis Alys, created a short video entitled Vocho.1 The video documents the process of Alys driving an old VW beetle into a tree at the botanical gardens in Culiacan, Mexico, and then … Continue reading →

I remain very cautious about positioning my weekend recreation as aesthetic practice. But of course it all depends upon what you do with it. And there is probably nothing wrong with employing artistic strategies to reflect upon my various stupid … Continue reading →

No more moon – just a movement of clouds, a change in light, and a slight, accidental change in focal length. I wonder how long I can keep this practice up. Is there any need for me to do it … Continue reading →

My interest is not in recasting the activity of walking so that so that it can be summoned to the altar of art – as dream; as drift; as estrangement; as metaphor; as participatory critique – but rather in pushing … Continue reading →

I’m putting together the “writing” page and came across this bit of writing from a few years ago: Technology appears to be about functionality – getting jobs done more quickly and efficiently, enabling greater precision and control. The computer does … Continue reading →

Big westerly wind last night – pool full of leaves. (Searching for another image of light.)

So I normally run in the morning, but this time I ran in the early evening. After a few laps a little kid appeared and scuttled a lap around the field. Then a guy with a labrador walked up from … Continue reading →

Started earlier this morning. Ran 16 laps.

Interference represents a characteristic aesthetic strategy – supporting the self-image of art as a force running counter to the dominant signal flow, opposing, disrupting and defamiliarising ordinary signals. But, of course, art also contributes to the overall flow. It is … Continue reading →

Switched at the weekend from daylight savings to ordinary time, so now have to get up an hour earlier to catch the sunrise. Not sure I’ll manage this, so this may be my last run sequence for a while – … Continue reading →

I flagged in the previous post (“Run_8”) that there may be no more of these run posts for the time being. But when I went for my usual run this morning, I couldn’t resist taking before and after photographs, suggesting … Continue reading →

For my purposes, media is not the plural of medium. Media is integrally plural. It represents a multiplicity and an heterogeneity that cannot be resolved to a determinate set. As the etymology suggests, media is concerned with the in-between. It … Continue reading →

In a place not thinking. Grey above the sky, but bright, drifting in the midday mist. For what is this? Possibly a change in weather, but I have no recollection of seriously taking notice of the sky. I did indeed, … Continue reading →

Longer run today, although this is not apparent. Ran up Mt Nebo and along to Mt Kembla village and back. Harry Graham Drive was closed to vehicles, with the road significantly undermined in places by recent rain. Approaching Mt Kembla, … Continue reading →

No running with calf injury. Walked up Mt Nebo instead. Aware that another image concept was needed. Decided to take two images at the top of the walk separated by the slightest of intervals. But this concept quickly fell by … Continue reading →

Another walk up the hill, but without the camera. Discovered that a portion of the dirt road running along the top ridge had been gravel asphalted since I was last up there a week ago. There had been piles of … Continue reading →

For me, art is multiplexed. It is incorporated in my non-art activities – in walking, running, climbing, etc. While it may be possible to position these activities wholly within art – pointing, for instance, to the tradition of the 19th … Continue reading →

Injuries are tedious. Only five laps this morning. Soon there will be only the shortest gap between my before and after image, and then no gap and no images at all.

Some kind of sensible observation, which picks up on the concerns of the multitude, plus the manifest needs of the individual, and transforms, as though a refulgent phenomenon, the ancient scope of divine deeds, which are scarcely to be acknowledged, … Continue reading →

In Book X of The Republic, Plato describes Socrates’ rejection of mimesis. Socrates employs the example of a bed. There is, in his view, the original ideal bed created by God. Then there is any particular actual bed created by … Continue reading →

The DADA readymade removes an everyday object – say a bucket – from its ordinary context and exhibits it as art. Initially, this works less to claim the bucket for art – to strip away its everyday ‘bucketness’ and make … Continue reading →

I draw on the technical metaphor of multiplexing to explain an aspect of my current practice (and perhaps a broader tendency within contemporary art) because it responds to the notion of interference. Instead of disrupting and corrupting the signal (from … Continue reading →

Back up Mt Nebo in light rain to the new gravel-asphalt road. Then through the gate and down to the small clearing with its chainsawed stumps and small piles of sawdust. On the way back, an unexpected sunset – lighting … Continue reading →

Short morning walk.

Up the hill to the same spot – a small clearing before the narrow lantana track. Apparently nothing much to see. Grey sky, a few clouds, a tinge of red in a saddle near Mt Keira. But I hang around … Continue reading →