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About Me

oil painting. making projects that combine different artistic mediums. have been working on an environment/theatrical happening/interactive space/installation/performance art project that was inspired by fun houses, horror houses, mazes, old circus aesthetics, labyrinths, carnivales, masquerade balls, the black magic aesthetic, David Lynch movies, fetish, Dada and Surrealism and art that requires a high level of audience participation. i've been a uni student ever since i finished high school. love learning. i am currently studying art history, theatre and philosophy. I want to go to places where there are beautiful buildings, heritage listed places, ancient buildings, ruins, castles, snow, fortresses, natural wonders. i'd like to go to venice during carnival. i like labyrinthes, garden mazes, Medieval towns like Estonia, i like places in which you can't really see traces of modern cities.... One of my favourite places in the world is Soumenlina and I know I spelt it wrong... sorry for those who know how to spell it. It is a beautiful fairytalesque Island in Helsinki, Finland... with a Russian fort on it. It is heritage listed so it is really old world ish. i also like being out in the country (especially like going to the beach in the country), i also like forests and other places in which you are far from obvious traces of civilisation. i like remote beaches (especially at night)... i love country beaches... being on tops of mountains, on the edges of cliffs, being far away from cities. but i also like being in the middle of crazy amazing cities like New York. i love being on the tops of really tall buildings, like the empire state and watching the sunset. i like going horse riding, would love to ride motor bikes if i knew how.

My Interests

the art of the situationists, the surrealists, Krzysztof Wodiczko (great video installation artist, tony oursler (amazing video installation artist)John Currin, Leigh Bowery, arte povera, the dadaists, tony oursler, doug aitken, duane hanson, jeff koons, paul mccarthy, kara walker, Antonin Artaud, Ergon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Modigliani, Kurt Schwitters, Breton, Tzara, Picasso, Hans Bellmer, J. H. Waterhouse, Arnold Bocklin, Chapman Brothers, Guerilla Girls, Vienesse Action Artists, Tristan Tzara, Surrealist writing and painting, Breton, sound poems, Klimt, Schiele, Symbolist painters, Decadent painters, Hans Bellmer, Magritte, Schwitters, Max Ernst, Aubrey Beardsley, Antonin Artaud, Alfred Jarry, Georgio de Chirico, Miro, Jean Benoit, Roland Penrose, Kandinsky, Heronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Leonardo Da Vinci and all the fantastic and extreme performance artists that made work from the 60s til now. contemporary theatre. beckett's 'NOT I' on the BBC series. Symbolist paintings I love: 'The Gust of Wind' by Lcien Levy-Dhurmer. 'Ophelia' by Sir John Everett Millais. 'The Sphinx' or 'The Caresses' by Fernand Khnopff. 'Fate' by Jan Toorop. 'The Young Martyr' by Paul Delaroche. 'The Lady of Shalott' by John William Waterhouse. I've recently gotten into Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Goya,Carravagio, Durer, David... and several other beautiful artists from a long time ago. Christoph Schlingensief's 'foreigner's out' event in Austria.utopian philosophies. political philosophy. ancient greek philosophy. oscar wilde's socialist philosophy. anarcho-communistic political ideas interest me but i'm not sure how feasible they would be in reality.Buildings...anything by Gaudi, La Sagrada Familia, The Chrysler building,inside of the Empire State, St Patrick's Cathedral, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, art deco buildings, Sydney Opera House, Flat Iron Building, The Guggenheim, The Kiasma... etcmarionettes. wax models. things uncanny. the occult. dolls (particularly life-size ones). gargoyals, ruins, ancient things, old things. fantacides. parasols. hats. stockings. gloves. can can skirts. pencil moustaches. cuban heels. black magic aesthetic. circus aesthetic. house of horror aesthetic. surrealist aesthetic. symbolist aesthetic. mystery. romance. decadence. extravagance. anything art nouveau or art deco.Fashion Designers: Comme des garcons, Issey Miyake, Yojhi Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Galliano, Tina Kalivas, Maison Martin Margiela, Eley Kishimoto, Erica America ... designers that are artistic, experimental, flamboyant and fantastical...I love fashion from the 15th Century to now.. I love Victorian fashion, Art Deco fashion, Elizabethan fashion, Medieval fashion, Edwardian fashion, fashion from the 1930s, 1960s... I love fashion from 17th and 18th Century Masquerade Balls in Europe, I love costumes for Carnival

Music:

Diamanda Galas. Antony and the Johnsons.Gypsy music. vulgar grad. Zulya. killer Flamenco. Fernanda de Utrera. Camaron. Paco de Lucia. Carmen Linaires. Kurt Weill. Lotte Lenya. Rebekah Del Rio (she sings 'Llorando' in 'Mulholland Drive'). Lhasa. (Lhasa De Sela). Rufus Wainwright. Peaches. Erik Satie. John Cage. The soundtrack to 'Broken Flowers' (Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopian Jazz Band)... Tom Waits. miller heidke. talking heads. divinyls. Bach (especially if organ or harpsicord pieces) (especially 'The Art of Fugue') 'Openings of the Mouth' 'A Rose is a Rose' by John Rodgers. Nick Cave. Squirel Nut Zippers. Boys Next Door, Birthday. Music that is dark, romantic, expressive, crazy, experimental. Madame Bone's Brothel. Flamenco. Strange sound/text performance art/music. Some classical and early music. Babara Stozzi. Raunchy old world cabaret singing. new music. Erkki Veltheim. John Rodgers.

Movies:

No Country for Old Men. Mulholland Drive: Lost Highway: Blue Velvet: Twin Peaks: Wild at Heart. Tim Burton movies. Edward Scissorhands. Terayama Shuji movies. Lynch movies. Pedro Almodovar films. Jim Jarmush films.'City of Lost Children'. 'Delicatessan'. 'Black Cat White Cat'. 'Head On' 'Latcho Drum' 'Vengo' 'Swing' 'Tren de vie' 'Broken Flowers' 'Cinema Paradiso' 'Edward Scissorhands' 'Brokeback Mountain' 'Dead Man' 'The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello' (by Anthony Lucas). 'Clockwork Orange' 'Live Flesh' 'Talk to Her' 'All About My Mother' 'Bad Education' 'The Matador' 'In the Mood for Love' 'The Piano Teacher'...'Thin Metal Jacket'... 'Apocalypse Now'. surrealist movies. I love 'Un Chien de Andalou' (by Dali and Breton). I love 'Meshes of the Afternoon' by Deren. Fellini films... Lena Weitmuller films... Igmar Bergman ... 'A Night on Earth' ..... Snow White ...'Blade Runner' ... Fellini movies. Fassbinder movies.absurdist dark movies. black comedies. 'Dogma'..................... For costumes ::::::'Dracula', 'The Brotherhood of the Wolf' 'Sleepy Hollow', quite liked 'Eyes Wide Shut' (well I loved the masquerade party scene anyway): The Cook The Thief The Wife and Her Lover

Television:

lost.

Books:

Salome. Aubrey Beardsley books... William Blake books.. Edward Gorey books. 'Rousseau's Confessions'. Rousseau's 'Reveries of a Solitary Walker'...Oscar Wilde's 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism' 'Antigone' 'Medea' 'Hamlet' (especially the character and story of Ophelia... Lorca...Rilke... some of Paul Celan's poetry... T.S. Eliot's 'The Hollow Man' ... some of E.E. Cummings's poetry... Dada sound poems... utopian manifestos.

Heroes:

People that make life more like art. humanitarians.