PPD 6 27.2.19

Richard DeDomenici

Using social media as practice

 

Break-In: Cardiff: 2000: tried to break into Cardiff Prison. Man tried to help him. Guards took him into the prison, along with the man who helped him. Handcuffed and  taken to police station. Claimed it was art, policeman dropped the charges.

 

Pedestrian Congestion Charging: 2005

 

Boris: 2004

 

Torch: 2008: made a fake Olympic torch, taking it around the uk. People filmed him thinking it was the real torch. Torch confiscating by police. People uploaded the videos of his performance on YouTube. Plans to take this to Tokyo next olympics.

 

34 Hours on the Circle Line

 

Plays on uncertainty and confusing people

 

Started recreating films and scenes from films - people like it when things go wrong

 

Copyright grey area - not plagiarism, more of a parody

 

Live Art Aid: raising money for live artists

 

TV show: Fame Asylum: created a boy band in 2 weeks, raising awareness for asylum seekers.

 

Project V: group of performers would post videos online daily and connect with the rest of the group. 

 

Uploading 2007 videos to tiktok

 

Unattended baggage: person attending the baggage is inside. 

 

Looking For Freedom 2009: YouTube video: puts up picture of David Hassellhoff in museum, still there 2 years later.

 

False Beards For Female Live Artists: sending beards to female artists, about the issue of the gender pay gap.

 

2015: Live From The BBC: attempting to recreate BBC moments. 

 

Shed Your Fears: Tate: 2017: people got to speak to a stranger in a shed, like a confession booth? 

 

Utility Cabinet: Shoreditch: 2015: #anarchitecture 

 

Upcoming projects: 

Once I ran from you

Swivelympics

Took old shredded up bank notes from Bank of England - made confetti with it

Repatriate The Portland Stones - return stone from St Pauls etc

 

Went through a phase of not documenting his work so it became a sort of myth or rumour. Regrets that he can't show people these performances. However, sometimes having a camera next to you defeats the purpose of it, sometimes you don't ant people to think that it's art. Wrote it in a book instead. Easier nowadays because people have cameras on their phones so will often find his performances on YouTube etc.

 

Interested in exploring the grey area of being arrested, not technically doing anything illegal. Understands that being white gives him a huge privilege of not being arrested.

 

Start doing it even if it's not where you want it to be or not perfect. Write your best ideas down.