Artist
Statement
Who are we?
We
have been working together for over 15 years, beginning in radio and
then from the early ‘90s making work with CD-Roms, installations,
websites and net art installations.
We see artwork and artmaking as a way to engage with complex ideas,
media onslaughts, as well as plain everyday life. For us it is an
enquiry into the everyday of 21st century post-everything.
In this endeavour we have used lots of different approaches. It all
depends. Everday 'stuff' is very complicated and constantly changing.
Sometimes we work from or with a text. Recently we have been interested
in working with the fictive possibilities of the net -- playing on
the borderland between fiction and reality, and one of the texts that
is an ongoing inspiration is the Collected
Works of
Alfred Jarry - especially his 'pataphysics.
The
actual process of our collaboration is a major part of our work. It's
an ongoing dialogue, sometimes growing into a wider conversation.
We consider the process of collaboration to be an artwork in itself.
One
of our favourite and most important forms of artmaking is walking
and talking...
"Ordinary
life is pretty complex stuff"
- Harvey Pekar
Bios: Norie Neumark
still listens to the radio. She has made many radiophonic works and
hopes one day to have the time to make a (very noisy) radio play for
the net.
Maria Miranda - currently I'm a PhD candidate at Macquarie
University, Sydney. My research topic is 'collaborating in new media'.
Acknowledgements:
Museum of Rumour
- This project was made at Sydney College of the Arts.
Perpetual Emotion Project
-
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body.
The
following assitance is also gratefully acknowledged:
The University of Technology, Sydney
Acoustic Art Unit, ABC Radio