Black
Alastair MacLennan
Black Market's most interesting work (to the artist) comes through
the marginal, the unexpected, no conventional staging, or seated audiences
'ordinary' living situations (with their treble, quadruple twists)extremes of success and failure
work invoking real (not symbolic or metaphoric) doubt, wonder and awe
the use of actual danger (physical and mental), contradiction and 'artlessness'
concern with political, social and cultural malfunction
victims (and how)
bottoming out of values
splintering of whole systems
feeding from life, not frozen cultural forms
being simultaneously opposite and not - (three's company, two a crowd)
siting work out of traditional spaces, theatres, galleries, museums, concert halls,
re-activating the concept of pilgrimage
getting there being part of the work
unfixing the fixity of text
working from cracks in old vessels
making work from gaps in new systems
using the potential of distortion through mediation
what does and doesn't collapse in on itself
uncertainty as subject and object matter
linking up inter regionally, globally (not internationally)
making art without 'artists'
making 'nothing' engaging, entertaining and provocative
eschewing artifice
promoting work which shows faith in the present
while surfing through post-modernism, locating pre-modern archetypes within
fusing actual and virtual time/spaces
endeavouring to realise / work from the unimageable