Thinking inside the box. Constructing model set for Tempting Failure  - As a means to escape the page for fear of falling too far into the disparate fragments of words in 2D.
A dolls house of hostility and an attempt to stage manage [take control] over that which I feel powerless.
Constructing an institution for process - meditation.
Welcome to the house of god.

 I am overjoyed to be working on this project! I have had the good fortune to work with some of these wonderfully talented people before. As before, the timing plants itself following a period of somewhat enforced isolation - I have found myself over recent years becoming far more insular with regards to my art practice. It sometimes feels like a secret - I have to adapt and adopt the correct behaviors, constantly switching role. Concepts run through me with beautiful, significant fluidity but outlet and output often fails. A curse of overactive, dyspraxic head met with palsied fingers.

Engaging with failure - for one, I'm writing. It is a daily frustration that appears to end with more and more disjointed elements coming through. Anxiety building at the prospect of establishing order (eventually). 

The piece will have various 'scripted' elements - I have become fearful of using my voice during performance. I'm not sure who's voice - it may be a quest for a true voice - perhaps simply a solo ventriloquism.

The content is more openly biographical than I have ever allowed. Note: Not for catharsis sake. It is a necessary motivator and it would be impossible to ignore the surroundings of the exhibition venue and explore my personal narrative in respect of that.

There is a genuine danger to what is developing - both mentally and physically. I am reminded of a conversation I had a few years ago with my tutor Dr Sharon Kivland -
You see, the trick is to step as close as possible towards the void - extract from it all that you can but be mindful of how consumed you allow yourself to be, and live to tell the tale.

Yes.
Failure is on the horizon - for sure.

https://www.facebook.com/events/447110178695950/?ref=ts&fref=ts
http://www.thomasjohnbacon.com/2013/02/tempting-failure-2013-artist-line-up.html
https://www.facebook.com/#!/tempting.failure?fref=ts

My shirt available at auction for Nastupiste 1-12

http://love.nastupiste.sk/auctions/1

Schody do... Slovakia
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Koniec sveta

It's called Idle Vault for a reason - It can just sit here for months and months without any attention but it's here when I need it to be. Sometimes I become so wedged under my rock that any attempt to communicate with the wider world seems, at best pointless - the concepts and observations exist only within my own conscious and I fail to be an artist. It's a full time commitment, a self fulfilling prophecy - a secret stash, a compulsive hoard - one day caving in on me I'm sure.

But, The end of the world is nigh (allegedly) and as a result I am currently packing my belongings and heading out to Nitra, Slovakia to take part in two exhibitions exploring this...

It seems fitting.

Tempting Failure - Preparations.

 

https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/145165632264024/

http://www.thomasjohnbacon.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7-ZLqMThro&NR=1