[spectre] Lawrence Weiner Erasure.

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Thu Feb 16 16:16:11 CET 2012


Sorry for any cross posting...

Lawrence Weiner Erasure.

Review by Rob Myers.

How can you erase a work of Conceptual Art, and what does it mean to 
try? Armed only with a biro and a sketchpad, Michael Szpakowski takes us 
on a critical journey into one of Western art's most radical movements 
with a mash-up of the ideas of Lawrence Weiner and Robert Rauschenberg.

Michael Szpakowski's "Lawrence Weiner Erasure", 2012, presents itself as 
an erasure of Lawrence Weiner's "A RUBBER BALL THROWN ON THE SEA", 1969. 
It takes the form of a handwritten text on a drawing pad accompanied by 
the ballpoint pen used to write it and an edition of framed photographs 
of them.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/lawrence-weiner-erasure

Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer & writer. His music has been 
performed all over the UK, in Russia & the USA. He has exhibited work in 
galleries in the UK, mainland Europe & the USA. His short films have 
been shown throughout the world. He is composer & video artist for Tell 
Tale Hearts Theatre Company & a joint editor of the online video 
resource DVblog (http://dvblog.org). http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/

Rob Myers is an artist, writer and hacker based in the UK. During the 
1990s was an art student, then an art & technology student, then an art 
& technology lecturer, and a dot.com worker. In the 2000s he programmed 
games, prepress software and more, and then got involved in Free 
Software and Free Culture. He has been a reviewer for Furtherfield since 
2006. Reviewing computer art, net.art, and books, trying to bring a 
historical context and a sympathetic eye to them. http://robmyers.org/


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