Waiting List 3rd May

Day 2 at the Surgery

Mobile quality pics and clips from Day 2:

Undercover recording of the emergency meeting for patient named 'Plate':

Webcam clips:

Day 1 at the Surgery

Mobile quality pics and clips from Day 1:

The Doctors in Action Weekend 1

ITV

Waiting List 28/04/2010

Owner/Carer Title/Description Operation Permitted?
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Harvey Daniels Painting TBA
Judy Stapleton Print 1 TBA
Judy Stapleton Print TBA
Jayne Eagle Piece 1 No
Jayne Eagle Piece 1: Painting Yes
Simon Morse In Process TBA
Nick Carrick Painting 1 Yes
Nick Carrick Painting 1 Yes
Nick Carrick Painted Plate TBA
Jane Fordham Cardbord Rifle No
Jane Fordham Painting No
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva Cows Stomach No
Guy Barton Painting (WIP) TBA
Michael Landy Scrap Heap Serv. No
Angela Evans + (WIP) TBA
Daniel Pryde-Jarman DVD Film Yes

Van

A good day's work - Stuff now in the Surgery - More to come

Operate?

Should we operate on:
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Sign on

phone pics from today

Stretchers

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Fringe Brochure

Open Art Surgery
01 May 2010, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Pavilion Surgery

2-3 Old Steine,
Fringe venue: 349. View further venue information

Entrance FEE: Free

Website: doomsburysetartsurgery.blogspot.com

Artists Exhibiting

Name	Surname	Medium	Email
Huw	Bartlett	Undefined	Email
Jonathan	Gilhooly	Varied	Email
Micheál (a.k.a. Mocksim)	O'Connell	Simulanimation	Email

ARE YOUR PAINTINGS SICK? Do you own artworks which may require expert diagnosis? Bring them to the Open Art Surgery where qualified Doctors of Art prescribe an-aesthetics, treatments and cures. We specialise in ailments such as Poor Composition, Tonal Problems and Disharmonious Colour, and more complex issues such as Want of Meaning and ‘Era Infection’. Operations may be necessary.

Age Suitability: All ages

Other event dates:

02 May 2:00 PM
08 May 2:00 PM
09 May 2:00 PM
15 May 2:00 PM
16 May 2:00 PM
22 May 2:00 PM
23 May 2:00 PM

Today's Investigations

Mobile Phone quality pics of todays investigations:

A form

Quiet here

Lots happening - The blog any use for recording this or should we erase the thing?

Technology

I've carried out some experiments today. We will be able to:

have camera pointed at surgery table which feeds:
1) projector
2) time-lapse documentation
3) acts as live(ish) webcam for remote viewing (if the surgery have wireless)

Be nice if we got funding to be able to afford laptop for this and some bits and pieces.

My cam: http://www.mocksim.org/webcam/mocksimwebcam.htm

Education Reform Act (ERA)

For Treatment

In my opinion this patient (including mesh, metal shutters) is in excellent condition, healthy, needs no treatment:

A second opinion?

Operation Complete (Igor2)

Also operated on this: http://doomsburysetartsurgery.blogspot.com/2009/12/diagnosis.html

Apologies for the long waiting time of 13 weeks.

Post-Op:


















Pre-Op:

The Routine Cliché Removal Procedure (Sunsets)

I had to work alone given the urgency but the patient has survived a Routine Cliché Amputation.
After:

Before:

New post

Book Appointment

To request appointment at Open Art Surgery (between 2pm and 4.45pm) at these dates:

Saturday 1st May
Sunday 2nd May
Saturday 8th May
Sunday 9th May
Saturday 15th May
Sunday 16th May
Saturday 22nd May
Sunday 23rd May

Click here: Request Appointment

Notes:

Work in any condition, in your possession acceptable.
We reserve the right to keep the piece for the duration of the festival.
Operations may be necessary.

tick tock

Work Life

Due to the work life imbalance I have failed to complete the ACE application tonight.

We may want camera, laptop, projection loop also (costed in).

CAMERA====>LAPTOP====>BEAMER (PROJECTOR)
========>DOCUMENTATION (STORE THAT VIDEO)
========>LIVE (OR ALMOST LIVE) STREAMING

Open Art Surgery

The intention summarised:

Given that artists are increasingly qualified, some with PhDs, we (The Doomsbury Set duo plus Jonathan Gilhooly) intend to investigate the concept of an Art Surgery modelled upon the idea of a Doctor's Surgery. Open Art Surgery begins with the premise that art-works presented by individuals might be treated as “patients”, for which diagnoses, remedies and treatments can be dispensed.

This is what will appear in the Brighton Fringe 2010 brochure:

"ARE YOUR PAINTINGS SICK? Do you own artworks which may require expert diagnosis? Bring them to the Open Art Surgery where qualified Doctors of Art will prescribe an-aesthetics, treatments and cures.

We specialise in ailments such as Poor Composition, Tonal Problems and Disharmonious Colour, and more complex issues such as Want of Meaning and ‘Era Infection’. Operations may be necessary..."

Notes from discussion with Arts Council

• How will funding help with development of practice(s)?
• What could you do with funding that you couldn't otherwise?
• The idea seems like a good one.
• Is there equipment you will need?
• Describe marketing plans.
• Think about audiences.
• How will this help you as individual artists and collaborators?
• I spoke originally about £4000 based on initial rough calculations
• A later e-mail suggested that it's best to apply as a group (because that is what we are)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Logo time

We do not need to be educational in any way...

I feel more convinced as time passes that we are right in our thinking that the 'artifacts' themselves are treated as the patients and that we might resist giving too much directly, in terms of advice, to the owners, creators or at least that we should be careful to remind ourseleves that we not need to be educational in any way.

A-N Project Blog

AN Project Blog: http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/preview/605434

Quiet

This is a quiet place

Landy different

In response to a communication from an artist friend of mine based in Cork City, Ireland who said in relation to OAS:

"so you favour a more redemptive humane approach to failed art than this? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23800142-rubbish-modern-art-dumped-as-trash-for-exhibition-art-bin.do "

I said in response:

"I'm glad you saw the link though becuase this art surgery idea has been in my little skull for a few years now and two others and I are going forward with it this May and it pissed me off that there were some similarities with Landy's latest initiative and it might look as though we were simply building on his ideas when it fact it came independently. Anyway as you say this is an attempt to resuscitate so significantly different."

then he, le friend, replied:

Come here boy, what's all this concern with originality eh? You want to be first to the market with your innovation or something? What's that all about?

then i replied to le friend:

i know what you're saying about originality. of course i do. i hope you know that i know what you're saying. and my guess is that both of us know that this is not as simple a matter as you suggest.

advertisers seem to like originality. maybe on this front saatchi has done a lot of damage.

anyway i seem to remember your problem with the likes of sean scully, finding a formula and then repeating it ad-nausium.

then dr. jon said to me:

I fail to see that there is any similarity whatsoever between OAS and Michael Landy’s ‘work’ (this, regardless of my opinion of him, or of any notions of ‘originality’ - whatever that is...)

Are your paintings bad?

ARE YOUR PAINTINGS SICK? Do you own artworks which may require expert diagnosis? Bring them to the Open Art Surgery where qualified Doctors of Art will prescribe an-aesthetics, treatments and cures.

We specialise in ailments such as Poor Composition, Tonal Problems and Disharmonious Colour, and more complex issues such as Want of Meaning and ‘Era Infection’. Operations may be necessary.

Re-Search (Ground Control)

New 'Puns of Dubious Quality' for possible use:
Art-ery
Owrt-ism