The New MT

HOW NOT TO PAINT A WALL WHITE PART 2 AND THE VARIOUS LIVES OF ‘THE WORLD ISN’T WORKING’.

Mark Titchner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:09:40 +0000

'The World Isn't Working', wall drawing, acrylic and emulsion. 2011

Installed at ‘An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again’ Bonnington Gallery in Nottingham. November/December 2011. Curated by Candice Jacobs.

'The World Isn't Working', wall drawing Mark Titchner

Photos Phil Jackson.

'The World Isn't Working', wood carving, 2008, Mark Titchner

'The World Isn't Working', Wood Carving, 2008, Mark Titchner

Installed in ‘An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again’ One Thoresby Street, Nottingham. November/December 2011.

'The World Isn't Working' Digital print on vinyl, 2008

Installed Downstairs Gallery, as part of ‘Change The World Or Go Home.’ At Great Brampton House, 2011.

'The World Isn't Working', Digital Print On Vinyl, 2008, Mark Titchner

Installed at Peres Projects, ‘Plateau Aurora Borealis’ 2008

'The World Isn't Working', Performance, 2008, Mark Titchner

Performance of ‘FEEL BETTER NOW! Apathy and the New Sincerity’ by Johnny Woo and Jeanette.

'The World Isn't Working', Patch, 2011, Mark Titchner

Patches commissioned by Tate, 2011.

'The World Isn't Working', Billboard Poster, 2008. Mitte, Berlin

‘Labour Isn’t Working’, Poster, Saatchi & Saatchi, 1979

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – THE HIPPY CONFIGURATIONS (THE WHITE LITE 2007).

Mark Titchner — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:52:41 +0000

‘Fear of life’, 2007. Loop

‘Madonna’, Mark Titchner, 2007. Loop

‘New Man, New Woman’, 2007. Loop

‘Tantric Separation’, 2007. Loop

'Hippy Configuration', Mark Titchner, 2007

'Hippy Configuration', Installed as part of 'White Lite from the Eye of Infinity' Vilma Gold Gallery, London 2007

MAN AND HIS MARK (ONE MORNING ON THE WAY TO THE STUDIO: THE CONCRETE POETS OF HACKNEY ROAD)

Mark Titchner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:41:57 +0000

'Hand', Hackney Road, London

'Feet', Hackney Road, London

'Cock', Hackney Road, London

'Itchy', Hackney Road, London

'Smoke Weed', Nunhead, London

'F%$k You', Hackney Road, London

'Acid', Walsall.

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – ‘DISCLOSURE’, 2009.

Mark Titchner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:31:15 +0000

‘DISCLOSURE’, 2009. Duration 59:00.

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – ASCENT (ATTENTION AND HABITUATION), 2011.

Mark Titchner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:23:26 +0000

ASCENT (ATTENTION AND HABITUATION), 2011. Duration 9:59.

Installed with the works ‘Expansion’ and ‘Contraction’ (both 2011). Cruise and Callas, Berlin, 2011.

‘Contraction (2012 Loveknot)’, 2011
Burnt wood, varnish, aluminium 85 x 85 x 7 cm

Expansion (2012 Loveknot), 2011
Burnt wood, varnish, aluminium
85 x 85 x 6,5 cm

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – ‘N(I)B’, 2011.

Mark Titchner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:01:58 +0000

‘N(I)B’, 2011. HD Projection, duration 56:34.

‘N(I)B’ is a video portrait of Nicholas Bullen, a musician, sound artist and founding member of Grindcore band Napalm Death, a band whose intensely political songs condensed the human voice into primal, guttural screams. The Napalm Death song You Suffer from the Scum album of 1987 is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever, its duration being less than two seconds. It actually contains the lyrics ‘You suffer’ but why but these are barely indecipherable beneath what sounds like an emotive, desperate scream.

N (I) B is a silent, large scale projection in which we are presented with a close up shot of Bullen’s mouth as he performs a work written by the artist. This work combines a list of LGA banned words transformed through the use of a Gematria calculator which gives numerical values to words and phrases. The values of the banned words have been calculated and matched with other words and phrases of the same value. The film footage is slowed down to an extreme degree revealing the minute muscle movements that produce sound. The title, N (I) B refers to the Black Sabbath song of the same name (purported to stand for Nativity in Black) and to Billie Whitelaw’s performance of ‘Not I’ by Samuel Beckett . In this seminal work, the actress is filmed reciting a work with the camera focusing exclusively on the movement of her lips, teeth and tongue. In N (I) B, the sound is removed completely.

(Text from Exhibition Guide)

Installed at Andy Holden’s ‘Boulder Stage, Wysing Arts Centre.

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – ‘THE EYE DON’T SEE ITSELF’. 2007.

Mark Titchner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:44:50 +0000

‘The Eye don’t see itself’, Mark Titchner, 2007. Duration 6:46.

A THIRTY ONE DAY PROGRAMME

Mark Titchner — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:59:12 +0000

Bus-Tops is a public art project which won the London arc of the Arts Council/LOCOG ‘Artists Taking The Lead’ competition. ‘Artists taking the lead’ is the UK Arts Councils’ flagship project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The project is one of 12 commissions across the nation, one in each of the English regions and one in each of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Bus-Tops are screen based sculptural installations to be installed on the roofs of bus shelters across London, forming a city-wide exhibition platform for artists to show their work.

My project ’31 Day Programme’ launched the project on January 1st 2012. The project consists of a series of daily changing animations that are displayed in sites across London for the duration of January.

“Throughout our daily lives, we constantly absorb images and texts that generate desire or ambition; that tell us that we can be more than we are. This project is an attempt to present this phenomenon in its most blunt form as a series of inspirational, though potentially unobtainable, commands: a disembodied voice that is both nurturing and humbling. “31 Day Programme’ is an evolving series of messages and motivational challenges. Daily changing animations invite the viewer to reflect on their aspirations and potential, framed in the language of advertising and motivational books.” The Bus-Tops project continues my interest in placing works in the public realm, particularly the transitional space provided by the city’s travel network.”

DAY 2. ‘IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR LIFE YOU CAN CHANGE IT’, Kingsland Road, London. Photos Alfie Dennen.

The works can be seen at the following sites:

An article on the project from BBC News

The complete 31 day programme.

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – ‘ARTISTS ARE COWARDS’, 2002.

Mark Titchner — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:42:51 +0000

‘Artists are cowards’, Mark Titchner 2002. Video. Duration: 4min, 53sec projection. Tate collection

COMPLETE VIDEO WORKS – ‘UR TEXT’, 2006.

Mark Titchner — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:41:23 +0000

‘UR Text’, 2006, Mark Titchner. Duration 04:48.