Tim Pickerill's Page
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Tim Pickerill
41, Male
Brooklyn, United States - Share
- Blog Posts (4)
- Reviews (1)
- Groups (9)
- Artworks (122)
- Photo Albums (8)
- Videos (15)
Tim Pickerill's Groups
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Exquisite Dialogues
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Future Greats
(347 members)
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Artists Support Tibet
(67 members) -
new media and contemporary art
(98 members)
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Video Artists
(244 members)
Tim Pickerill's Page
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.pickerillpainting.com
- Relationship status
- single
- College / University
- California State University San Francisco, anthropology (video) / art (media)
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Installation, Painting, Performance, Photography, Video
- I am...
- ...looking for collaborators in noise projects, video and performance work.
-------I need three opera singers to record some text work on video-----------
...In need a better job, something arty...
I meditate when I sleep and when I walk (Diamond Mind, ngondro)... tantric... Tulku...
I am a lucid dreamer (sometimes that is really too much, like last night, I lie there awake and yet not, in a dream of daemons and wolves on the Hungarian plains with peasants who wont talk about the mysterious black monolithic building that sits like a curse or a warning to the living and the dead.)
myspace.com/omen_project
- About my artwork
- Take it or leave it...
www.omenproject.com
www.pickerillpainting.com
Bio
Mr Pickerill is a poet and multi media performance artist. Since 1997 he has been developing the Omen Project an ongoing series of performances, photography, video and installations. This project was inspired by the themes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Romeo and Juliet; the primacy of personal love over societal conflict and control. Mr Pickerill lives and works in Brooklyn NY.
Statement
My artwork is a response and witness to the wars and violence of mankind. Fundamental to my work is my belief that we are essentially schizophrenic as a culture. In general the culture at large has seen itself as being separate from nature, even superior, separate from 'God' and thus inferior. As in the Iliad, the Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet the cultural arbiters have posited that man and specifically men are the lords of the earth with the rights of profit that this supposed ownership affords. Murder and theft are deemed the rights of power held by a few who see the rest as 'others' devoid of rights or sovereignty. Love is the folly of youth and subservient to power and the family/culture. In both this leads only to tragedy and loss of life. The destruction meted on others ultimately brings tragedy back on the houses of these lords of power. The only way out is for the hero to humble himself (king becomes 'no one,' Nemo, thus all) before nature/god and return to the one he himself truly loves.
- Artists I like
- Gunter Brus, Gehard Richter, Mike Kelly, Pipilotti Rist, Paul McCarthey, Antonin Artaud, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Marlene Dumas, Duchamp, Damien Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, Andy Warhol, Chloe Piene, Herman Nietch, Terence Koh, Matthew Barney, David Lynch, Pier Paolo Passolini, Godard, Bella Tarr, Antonioni, Francois Truffaut, Sergei Eisenstien, Gus Van Sant, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrik, Richard Linklater, Werner Herzog, Andre Tarkovski, etc
If you don't know about in you should
on line archive of art video and other weird stuff
http://www.ubu.com/
- Interests
- art, cinema, moonshine, sex, 420, fast cars, space ships... oh and black haired leather clad girls with tattoos and lots of attitude...
Hillary/Obama '08
down with the vile Emperor...
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- I'm not showing any where so who cares...
- Centre of the artworld:
- my studio
Dead (Raechel) 14, 2008, oil on canvas, 60" x 48"
I am not from here...These following photographs are of performances of which I have produced and performed.
I never learned that the fire burned... I won't let go... I howl... the Omen Project from Hazards Of The Moon:
an ongoing thought about man and war
stranded...
born of red earth and ink black night
Person-
the knife enters, cleaving the one
opening an emptiness, emptying a fullness
Person looks for her.
'Where are you? 'Where have you gone?'
'I am not the one who did the leaving.'
As the earth of man reseeds from the waters, furthering thedesert, sapping the body
salt relieving the void, mirages emptying into thought
children echo the return of the mother/father.
The first word born of their becoming,
here I am, this is my cypher.
Opening to the sky, fill me
I am yours, beloved...
.................................
When I was three my mother went away
to the hospital. She had cancer,
a lump in her breast. The doctors
cut it out, removing her breast
to the bone.
One half of the universe dissolves
the son is alone with the father
Silence becomes enthroned in time, which is separation.
Desperation,
the chick calls out, randomly dialing numbers
until one connects, the signal holds
ringing fills the ears, further into the desert, dive...
An answer, 'yes, hello.'
Person asks, 'Do you know where my mother is?'
Do you here me?
You’re already dead!
This is not life!
This is not life!
Ring around the rosie
Pockets full of puss
Ashes
Ashes
We all fall down
Person
Person
You are a walking corpse
Shit and rotting blood of maggots
Piled high
Caricature of life
My lips
Brake
All is silent
I has wandered
No thing
No where
No shelter
No sky
No mountain
No valley
No skin
No flesh
Dead!
Dead!
Dead!
You’re already Fucking Dead!
Time is up, Mother Fucker!
She is crying.
Duck and cover!
Game over!
Time has ended
With an open mouth and an open ass
Screaming into the void
My sex crawls beneath the night
Enveloped in the boiling of the sky
Tuberous snouts probing
A cankered earth
Extracting poisons
Time honored
Tongues
Canceling the void
Silence scattered
Between cries
The radioactivity of my sex
Emits nightly
Half-life
All death
I cannot help
But to…
Everything is upside down
Somewhere between
The heart
And the mind
Something went wrong
Amok the Assassin; Deep Black Incantation 9
this is my most recent video project it mates a text that has been in development for 10 years to video loop
This is a site with my performance/installation work, my writing, my videos...the Omen Project www.omenproject.com
I can also be found on Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/omen_project
Tim Pickerill's Videos
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Your Train Is Leaving
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two ships passing
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Deep Black Incantationsub #6clip
Added by Tim Pickerill
Tim Pickerill's Blog
Ninja Magazine
I will be published in Ninja Magazine this January. Photos from my 'Bodies into Light' series of long exposure digital images taken at Chelsea gallery openings. http://www.ninja-mag.com/
Posted on 6th December 2008 at 8:36pm —
I will be showing at Optica, the Gijón International Festival of Video Art (Gijon, Madrid, Paris)
The Gijón International Festival of Video Art From November 6th to 8th, 2008 The Madrid International Festival of Video Art From October 16th to 18th, 2008 The Paris International Festival of Video Art From October 4th to.. , 2008 http://www. opticafestival. com/
Posted on 28th September 2008 at 3:00am —
We have never been postmodern, Postmodernism without reserve
A very important article for any artist.
Aesthetics : We have never been postmodern, Postmodernism without reserve
http://www.artpress.fr/
Author : Mark Alizart - Keywords : aesthetic, modernity, modernism, postmodernism - Type : long article (monthly dossier) - Language :
french/english
Published in Juillet 2003 in issue no. 292
There
is a rumor going round that critical discourse on contemporary art has
its hazy areas, with its commonplaces…
Posted on 15th December 2007 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments
the right to recieve royalties from the resail of art
note this does not apply to artists in the USA
bummer
but very interesting
Artist's Resale Right
ARR - 1 year and 1 million pounds later
In February 2007 DACS is celebrating one year of Artist's Resale Right. Since Valentine's Day 2006, artists have benefitted from over £1 million of royalties from the Artist's Resale Right. DACS is looking
forward to celebrating with all the artists who received royalties in
2006.
this is their webs…
Posted on 15th December 2007 at 10:51pm —
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I invite you to discover my 75 X 100 cm; postcards
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will come to NYC in October...
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