Thursday 17 December 2009

Saatchi is a Shakespeare derivative

Just been watching School of Saatchi episodes, got one to go, and it's all well and good for those of us who don't like to pretend that art is politics or is somehow more revolutionary than revolution, in other words, since its emergence not too long ago in history, a few hundred years ago, all art has been Bourgeois Art, and it still is, which is not saying it doesn't act with the breaks at, or near, the top, but if we were to look at this in another way, and I'm not saying we need to, then are there not times in history too when artists, following like they do, but in a leading kind of way, and not far behind the real radicals, align themselves to that new or latent potential order, for example between the 16th and 17th centuries in England didn't the most creative, unconsciously or openly, make work which reflected the concerns and excitements of the dangerous undercurrent of that period, the merchants, the traders, the individualists, whether they really wanted to or not?

Wednesday 16 December 2009

tiktoc annual launch picture


Photo above with (from left to right) Huw Bartlett, Naughty the Clown and Chris Warren by Guyan Porter from event on Friday 11th

Thursday 10 December 2009

Rachel Andrews reads







Rachel Andrews reading her piece about the aeroplane-shaped hedge on a roundabout near Cork Airport in the Irish Republic. This was commissioned for tiktoc05. Propose similar suggestions to The Doomsbury Set doomsbury@mocksim.org

Wednesday 2 December 2009

The ISBN Song

Chris Warren and The Doomsbury Set

Monday 23 November 2009

Buy (bi)Annual

Support independent publishing: Buy this book.
What a bargain boy!
Bye

Sunday 22 November 2009

Thursday 19 November 2009

You can't afford not to buy it!




Cheap as chips if you get in quick: http://www.lulu.com/content/7981866

200 pages plus front cover, back cover and a spine.

All this for £12 less 1 penny!


Wednesday 11 November 2009

tiktoc (bi)Annual 2009 Launch 11th December

I (Mocksim) have got an exhibition coming up at Moksha (4 York Place, Brighton, BN1)

You are welcome to attend the opening event: www.mocksim.org/Exclusive_Invite_Moksha.pdf
Details:

Friday 11th December at 7pm

Featuring the launch of the 'tiktoc 2009 (bi)Annual' with guest performances, poetry and readings from:

Manfred Wiesner
Emilia Telese
Kevin Smicle
Mike Russell
Barbara Ryan
Jonathan Gilhooly
Rowena Easton
Liam Doogan
Huw Bartlett
Rachel Andrews

Wednesday 4 November 2009

Friday 30 October 2009

The work of Art in the Age of Commercial Reproduction
by Benjamin Bartlett

http://www.blurb.com/

(For Technology, For Progress, For Regress.)

Sunday 25 October 2009

Wednesday 21 October 2009

Sunday 18 October 2009

Saturday 3 October 2009

Meanwhile, at the office of the set...

A poem to be remembered retrospectively


Not ideal this, imagination.
Grasping earthly things of "humanism".
We can speak of reality,
.."Well, you might think so, but in reality I think you'll find that things are quite different"
-"What makes you think that? I think these thoughts, I am real, does it not follow that my thoughts are also."
"Well, yes"
-"So what I think...
"Let me finish! What you think is of the world, yes and in that sense there may be a germ of truth in it, but it is not in the world. - Thought is not a thing"
-"Is a thing a thought?"

Not idle, imagination this.

Seven and a half hours for redemption

A poem to commemorate the presenting of 'No Simpsons This' to the central commitee of The Set.

Double kick left

Double the distance
Each kick covers a different length
thirteen seconds
in the blue in the red
Now it's getting hard
Three points down
Not to do so
Break free of
Calm him down
remind him
keep the pressure on
maybe
if you get your foot
key strength
two minutes
rescue himself
manchester
first points
skipping kick
resolute determination
the afghan


Wednesday, 20 August 2008 at 11:59

No Simpsons This

No Simpsons This,
A poem, presented to the set on the occasion of entering the waiting room for tiktoc four. The alternative is a dog earred 'Bella' and a copy of 'Radio Times' with Gary Bushell occupying the front cover. tiktoc. nitnit.knitknit.knitnot.crossstitich? no just cross


Toasted on both sides
Systems Theory/ Talcott Parsons
The ritual of academic execution
The lady plinth
Society must be destroyed
Hot Gossip
Cafe Cadeia
Q&A
Reify the status quo
The mist envelope
Transgression does not equate to difference
The not-use /
Surrendered to fiction

Let us be prey unto thyne end

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock

Commune this

"Labour will lose the next general election because they have spent 12 years cosying up to the business fraternity by moving into the centre, they will take 20 years to regain their rightful place on the left. The very place which, without any irony intended, they left in 1997."

What was not new we knew. We know now the new is never.

Huw Bartlett 28 yrs and one third
Trainee art and design teacher
former retail supremo
Surrogate Welsh nationalist
Disabled
White
Grandson of a coal miner
son to ron
son to lindy
brother to Hannah
brother-in-law to Sean
atheist

humanist
left-winger/left back/ left out/ left in/ left field/ goalkeeper
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(POST POST DATED MAY 2030)
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THIS GENERALISATION WAS NOT WRITTEN BY MARK TWAIN.

Thursday 1 October 2009

Generalisations

All generalisations are false, including this one

This Clown Entered Space


On Saturday my clown will enter a space.

Order Dispatched



THE
BIRTH
OF
THE
GREATEREST
'CREATIVEST
RUPLICAN
FIGHTBACK
OR
INFRINGEMENT
OF
INTELLECTUAL
COPYRIGHT
/BAD JOKE
(JOKER)

there, amongst us she sits.

ITALIAN ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHYS

The editor at lunch / cool beans


THE PHILOSOPHICAL OFFERING OF WATERSTONES EXTER

TRIAD
TRY HARDER
FIRST
THINGS FIRST

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D'walking Prayer (working document) print ready

Our tiktoc, who art in cyberspace
symbolic be thy name.
Thy copies come,
fifty will be done,
in brighton as on the website
Give us this day our fourthly tiktoc
And forgive us our misconceptions
as we forgive those who print against us.
And lead us not into reproduction
but deliver us from lulu.
For thine is the tiktoc, the poesis and the glory. for ever and ever. lulu

Wednesday 30 September 2009

Tuesday 29 September 2009

Whatever happened to art?


From the rules to Lighthouse, Brighton's, open submission video competition for this year's White Night event:



"Videos should not be offensive (contain swearing / bad language, violence, sexual references or nudity). Any videos that are offensive will not be eligible and will not be posted to the playlist or considered for the exhibition on White Night."






http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm


http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf1964.htm

First Things Fist

I feel like an anxious schoolboy at the worst of the times, but today my anxiety is thirsty for freshly printed matter. I desire it so much, for tiktocfour to be here in its yellow brilliance, to be in my hand this very minute. No, this very minute My bank balance attests to the idea that it will come. It will, won't it? Sniff, sniff...Perhaps I should ask why I am so anxious? Maybe I am proud of the 'work' I have done? But what in this instance is proudful about performing a 'desktop publishing function', the role of the automatic 'junior designer', I have received the training to perform these tasks to an upper second class degree level, ergo anxiety? Why anxiety over skill, or talent? As the monkey puts the cube in the square, I am able to left align. Always with apologies to Eric and Bob Gill. Pent up not pent a gram. All the tools, or a variation on the tools are in my bindle, given a brief brief and a dead deadline and three weeks to complete and what sets forth is a treading of sorts - over mishapen platforms and attitudes. Away in the office infront of Llangranog cup stained with never near enough washing, bankers lamp; for fallen posterity, a roll of sellotape nearing the end of its life, the hand print of a two year old, a chicken box filled with glass, bottletops and yellow plastic. Amongst all this, with the duracell batteries and a sheet from cafe cadeia on the wall, I play out the role. I join forces with former selves. There is no one looking over shoulders, drop shadow. As designers leave, I enter. To climb mountains and visit archival hotspots, to pretend. To enjoy the fruits of talent. Complicitly with the agenda that asks for collusion. Colluded, happy. Comedy events horizontal, idleness and books when bothered, too tired for projects of their own - They have turned off all the working equipment in their intellects and left me hunched with the hologram of Sophie Scholl emblazened on my torso, for I work naked. With my clothes on. Naked for without this barren wasteland, 'this desert of the real', we cannot do nothing. Maybe it is this that makes me anxious? I am not incorporated. What price ideology if there is but one way. The unskilled presents as chip shop board fancier, never bruce mao - never celebrate but always aware of vulvas sucking, searching through seas of norms and laws and values and tastes and adjustments in an unhinged, unknowing vernacular. Graphic Design, ken Garlanded. Forty Years ago it ended for Pity, naivity, asking the perennial queations, the return of youth. And the resulting answer: The First Things First.

The Lord's Joke

Out in the country I met a
fellow who had recently met a fascist.
The fascist said that The Holocaust never happened.
So this fellow beat him up.
And whispered into his ear:
"That never happened either"
Three Cheers

Ils ne passeront pas
¡No pasarán!
Pe aici nu se trece!

17 MINNUTES THINKING AND TYPING. FOR WHAT?








PRODUCTION FOR misUSE NOT PROFIT

-tiktoc


PRODUCTION FOR mUSE NOT PROFIle
-tiktoc

rePRODUCTION FORm USEd NOT PROFligate
-tiktoc

PRODUCTION FOR USE NOW PRIORITY

re:PRODUCT, FOR US NOT FILE
-tiktoc

-tiktoc

Nacionale.Unione.Mindworkers


Coming soon...

(t)iktoc
& Sympathy


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090929 joke © Mocksim

Recently I met a fascist.
He said that The Holocaust never happened.
So I beat him up.
And whispered into his ear:
"That never happened either"

© Mocksim 2003

Saturday 26 September 2009

090926 joke © Mocksim

"The postman no longer exists."

© Mocksim 2005

Friday 25 September 2009

090925 joke © Mocksim

"Relegious people all around the world: lighten up..."

© Mocksim 2002

"By all means have a relegion, but don't believe in it.

© Mocksim 2002

Wednesday 23 September 2009

090923 joke © Mocksim

"If humility were a sport I'd win gold."

© Mocksim 2006

Tuesday 22 September 2009

090922 joke © Mocksim

"No-one beats me when it comes to humility".

© Mocksim 2006

090920 joke © Mocksim

My bank told me recently that I had an "Outstanding Balance".
Should i be flattered?

© Mocksim 2003

Today I received a complimentary letter from my bank.
They told me I had an "Outstanding Balance"!

© Mocksim 2003



Sunday 20 September 2009

Sunday 6 September 2009

Thursday 3 September 2009


I
and the last thing shall be said. - IF WE PULL APART LANGUAGE TO SHOW HOW IT EXCLUDES LANGUAGE ON THE BASIS OF USE VALUE WE SHALL SEE THAT LANGUAGE IS nothing MORE THAN EXCHANGE VALUE, WHEN IT WAS ALWAYS FOR THE use...