stuckism and punk philosophy: controversialism in the fine art environment
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In December 1976, I heard ‘Anarchy in the UK’ for the first time and my life changed forever. I became a provincial punk.
In 1985 I met Pauline Murray and Robert Blamire from the punk group Penetration, and played on and off with them for the next
20 years.
There was an immediate identification within the ideas expressed and the work accompanying it, that had as
great an impact on me as the day I heard The Sex Pistols for the first time.
This led to me contacting them, declaring I was probably a Stuckist, and asking what I should do next.
Rachel JordonTurnerprize Hotel
The Stuckists are “pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti conceptual art, mainly
because of its poverty of concepts.”
(Milner, F. 2004 dust jacket).
Mark DShed Boat Shed Shed
What is punk philosophy?(this is a very difficult question to answer)
What is punk attitude?(still quite difficult)
Muggleton, (2000) quotes one of his “informers”, who talks of punk being:
“what you make it. Paradoxically, this is the essence of punk, and only ‘true’ punks realize this” (p.2).
however…
Methodology:
what have I been doing since 1977?
looking in the right place
looking in the right way
talk to the practitioner
working without a map (no agenda)
“Truth is what it is, regardless of what we want it to be”
Pocket Guide to Stuckism, Charles Thomson, March 2004
As practitioners, we all share similar issues(if we are authentic in what we do)
I wanted to document what I do anyway- that is:
talk about, argue about, and get excited about art and ideas
with other practitioners.
narrative enquiry:
The dynamic between the researcher and the subject can create barriers, as there is an implicit agreement that there
is a power asymmetry, that of the ‘academic’ and the subject.
This is not in fact the reality, as the researcher is often not professional within the role of an interlocutor. Neither are they necessarily experts when discussing life stories with
the subject.
As Czarniawska states, what a researcher can offer in this situation is “respectful and interested attention.”
Recent letter from Thomson to the Independent:
Michael Glover (“The best artist on the shortlist presents judges with a problem”, 5 May 2011) has surely underestimated the Tate by suggesting that there is anything dubious about a jury including Godfrey Worsdale, the director of the Baltic, nominating George Shaw, an artist currently exhibiting at the Baltic, for the Turner Prize to be held at the Baltic. The Tate will no doubt ensure that its ethically watertight conflict of interest management policy will be enforced with customary rigour and Worsdale will promptly leave the room every time the nominees are discussed.
Charles ThomsonCo-founder, The Stuckists
Painting is mysterious. It creates worlds within
worlds, giving access to the unseen psychological
realities that we inhabit.