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Nadim

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About Me

I produce photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures and films. Exploring social and political paradoxes; that use aesthetics strategically, as a way to draw the viewer and contemplate.Currently I am working on documenting my family, self portraits and regeneration within urban environments. Also hoping to have a book of all my work to date by the end of the year.I graduated with a BA Fine Art Degree from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2007.You can see more of my art work at:www.nadimyounas.com

My Interests

Photography, Drawing, Painting, Writing, Film, Music, Theatre, Reading, Conversations with people and furthering my spiritual develoment.

I'd like to meet:

Any one who wants to get together to be creative.

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Music:

Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Iggy Pop, Bonga, Art Balkey, Pop Levi, Nick Drake, Mano Negra, John Cage, Sugar Minott, Bob Dylan, The Damned, The Weepies, CAN, The Sundays, The Las's, Pink Floyd, Bill Bruford, The Clash, The Carpenters, The Las's, The Sundays, The Doors, The The, Morrissey, The Smiths, Public Image Limited, Bonnie Prine Billy, Animal Collective, The Pixies, Inner-Terrestials, Restarts, Dick Gaughan, Joni Mitchell, Layrn Nero, Nouvelle Vague

Movies:

A Bout De Souffle, Tie me up. Tie me down, Volver, Talk To Her What Have I Done To Desreve This, Drugstore Cowboy, 2001, Waking Life, Un Chien Andalou, Bladerunner, Footbal Hack, Russian Ark, Uzak, Repulsion, A One and A Two, Amores Perros, Being John Malkokovich, Annie Hall, The Red Squirrel, Videodrome, Pans Labyrinth, The Spirit of the Beehive, Where Green Ants Dream, Shine, The Piano, Arizona Dream, Grizzly Man, Fitzcarraldo, Crash, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Strangers On A Train, La Maman et la Putain, Arizona Dream, Nightwatch,

Television:

Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe, Six Feet Under, Documentaries on artists and their lives.

Books:

Candide & Zadig by Voltaire, Hilary Mantel, The curious incident of a dog at night by Mark Haddon, Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Mandela, The Beauty of Photography by Robert Adams, Brighton Rock, Crime & Punishment, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Short Stories.

Heroes:

Emily Pankhurst, Fathers for Justice, Tony Benn, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Bas Jan Ader, Douglas Huebler, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jim Morrison, Bob Carlos Clarke, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Eugene Atget, Ed van der Elsken, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali.

My Blog

If,If,If

If I was a whiteYou would'nt walk past me thinking and twinkering.Giving me the eye on the flyWonder where I was fromWhen you wouldnt know anywayLiving in ingnorance every day
Posted by Nadim on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:45:00 PST

The queen is a indolent whore....

She can lick my toilet brushAnd I hope she dies of thrush
Posted by Nadim on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:46:00 PST

Matthew Barney Show at The Serpentine Gallery, Oct 07

What a load of establishment ass licking rubbish. Does he have anything interesting to say no .Other than a clever idea of trying to draw whilst being retarded.Fuck Bjork as well, never liked that squ...
Posted by Nadim on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:42:00 PST

A Statement of Militant Esthetix

A Talk given at The Aquarium Gallery, 29 August 2003Ben Watson/Esther LeslieLast Tuesday Andrew Burgin asked me why anyone who's been involved in politics as an SWP member for over twenty years and st...
Posted by Nadim on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:11:00 PST

The Art of Politics

The art of politicsArtForum, Sept, 2004 by Tim GriffinWriting in these pages in September 1970, Artforum editor Philip Leider recalled a heated summer-time argument with Richard Serra. "What," they ...
Posted by Nadim on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:09:00 PST

Why all art is poltical by Mark Vallen

In June of 2004 the New York Foundation for the Arts conducted an online poll concerning people's attitudes regarding "political art". Of the 3000 or so individuals who responded, around 69% voted tha...
Posted by Nadim on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:21:00 PST

Consmuing Their Poison

how comes all the cigarette manufacturers produce such awful and smelly fags. there is only one company that produces a organic one, based in the california, US. It seems to be global monopoly control...
Posted by Nadim on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:33:00 PST

All Art Should Be Free Like The Sea

you need to dowload more bob marley, he said disquietly with astonishmentyou need more of it manhelps tomake you feel goodin this dream land harash shitty mu-ture got me downmade me wonder if all art ...
Posted by Nadim on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:18:00 PST

Click here to disappear: thoughts on images and democracy

David Levi StraussThe privatisation of image-making and the manipulation of image-reception in the global, digital age combine to diminish agency and freedom, says David Levi Strauss.13 - 04 - 2007Pho...
Posted by Nadim on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:53:00 PST

Fuck Hope

Thats why I hate it when people say they hope so, thats shit fuck hope. We're doomed he think. He hears his friend gesticulating to him you cant be so.  Are we the last of the few ...
Posted by Nadim on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:57:00 PST