I tend to be appreciative to a point of conceptual art, in this last week it came to my attention courtesy of scathing online and print ‘zine’ Vice Magazine, that there is a lady only known as Laura who has decided to spend a month living in a camper-van in the middle of nowhere with a frankly scary looking rag doll to keep her company…
OK, slightly weird as the rag doll looks fairly big – its roughly 6 feet tall fairly big for any kind of rag doll. When asked what the hell she was doing she replied
A Little Pocket Utopia/Life’s A Mess is a project that underscores the obvious importance of relationships, love, society, and how closely woven these influences are to sustainable life. For the month of August I inhabited an ancient, newly solar-powered mobile home with a six-foot man/rag doll, becoming a living installation and performance…
Well we all know that we are kinda screwed due to our own negligence and general disregard to things like ‘forests and clean water supply and fossil fuels’. With characteristically scathing language Vice says:
We’ve even managed to f*&% up the sky by putting holes in it and creating something called Global Warming“>global warming. Because of this people paint catchy slogans on some cardboard, attach it to a stick, and march around streets.
I don’t really want to go into detail about this Laura woman and her man-doll thing because its slightly creepy and she honestly comes across like she has a few screws loose. What is certain though is that her idea is fairly credible and trying to find a relationship between:
The conception of this project blossomed out of my growing rage with changes in climate and the literal desertifaction of planet earth and how these global influences affected reoccurring themes in intimacy, procreation, and human relationships and behaviors. I wanted to create a project where the idea of sustaining human life–procreating–is questionable when we’re a greedy enough species to destroy the environment that we rely on for everything.
I have to say that the generic image of old biddies on holiday with their caravanss needs to change so why not true this out… Caravan hire and have a jolly good time!
OK, Well I do recommend you visit this article and have a good read it is available here
