COME AND GET IT - Peer gallery

Manifesto of the Courtneyists

Shit TV -Shituationism

This is the new episode "Shituationism" made for "The Guy Debord Show" at New Gallery Catalog, New York.

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To celebrate the anniversary of the First Situationist International, Shit TV will be discussing the impact of Situationism on culture and art, interviewing members of the public and members of the private to get their points of view, recreating some of the defining moments of the SI and hanging about in toilets. All the regular Shit TV segments will be featured, such as Shitty Things, Hunt the Dump, Charlotte Talks Shit, and And Now for Something Completely Shit, but with a Debordist bent.


November 19th, the day this episode airs, is also World Toilet Day. Charlotte & Fred are very excited about this.

Zero Tolerance Art Gallery

Built for Ghosts - live in NYC

We've finally uploaded some live tracks from a gig we played at The Delancey in New York in September. The recording is a bit ropey, but that's okay!
Click here to listen...

Our next gig is at The George Tavern in Shadwell/Whitechapel on Monday, 3rd December.
It's free entry...hope you can make it.

Shit TV theme tune - video!

Fate Modern by Matthew Collings

Fatalists signature tattoo - 'Pupil of Fatalism'

Several of the original Fatalists, and later 'hardcore' recruits are tattooed with a black circle on the right upper arm (notably, this has only occurred since the death of the founding member of Fatalism, Clem Fatale, earlier this year). This is known as a Fatalist pupil, being both an acknowledgment of one's commitment to the movement, and a reference to the human eye, whom, directly quoting Richey Edwards (guitarist in Welsh angst-rock band Manic Street Preachers, officially missing since 1995), state

'The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect. But when it opens it's eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.'

Fatalists claim that the mark acts as a mnemonic as to their raison d'etré, a symbol of a lost, irretrievable purity, and a stamp of allegiance.

The tattoo's ubiquity over the last 2 years has come under much public attack, particularly by the Metropolitan Police due to it's patent reference to Anarchism.

Manifesto of the Fatalists

Safe European Home - Clem Fatale

Luther Blissett

Fate Modern by Matthew Collings (Pt. 1)

Fatalism - timeline

Shit TV theme tune

Here it is, another shitty exclusive - Shit TV: the theme tune!
Sing it, shitheads.....

Brawny

Brawn

noun

1. physical strength in contrast to intelligence.
2 Brit. meat from a pig's or calf's head that is cooked and pressed in a pot with jelly.

Source: Associated Supermarket, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 02/10/2007. Cost $1.49

Success

Success

noun

1. the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
2. the attainment of popularity or profit.
3. a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity.

Source: Associated Supermarket, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 02/10/2007. Cost $2.79.

Shit TV (with Charlotte & Fred) in NYC & on TV!

Hello,
We're very excited to announce that Shit TV (with Charlotte & Fred) is going to be included in a group show
at New Gallery Catalog, New York, called

The Guy Debord Show.
The new S(h)ituationist-themed episode will be stream on ustream.tv, after Fox News (!) on Monday, 19th November at 11:30pm, East Coast time (4.30am GMT).

Shit TV will be discussing the impact of Situationism on culture and art, interviewing members of the public and members of the private to get their points of view, recreating some of the defining moments of SI and hanging about in toilets. All the regular Shit TV segments will be featured, such as 'Shitty Things', 'Hunt the Dump' 'Charlotte Talks Shit', and 'And now for something Completely Shit', but with a Situationist twist.
November 19th, the day the show is aired, is also World Toilet Day. We're very excited about this.

Don't forget to tune in!

Charlotte and Fred
xx

'Event Horizon'

'Event Horizon' - Work in progress

A few weeks ago The Observer ran a feature interviewing each of the past winners of the Turner prize. Antony Gormley was quoted as saying that winning the prize is "like being a Holocaust survivor."
'Event Horizon' is a play on the idea of the intellectual or artistic 'heavyweight', using MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) as it's main motif. It is also a reaction against claims made by artists, such as this one, that they seem to think that, because they are artists, or claim to be so, it somehow gives validation to making asinine attempts at controversial pseudo-intellectual soundbites.
I cannot possibly begin to imagine how winning £20,000 is in any way akin to being illegally starved, beaten, stripped, imprisoned, enslaved, abused, raped, tortured and killed.

Maybe I'm missing something.
Maybe I should read more Bourriaud.

'The Doors of Perception'

'You Take My Breath Away'

The Stendhal Society

Stendhal Syndrome

The Kingdom of God is Within You

‘The Kingdom of God is Within You’ is a direct reference to Leo Tolstoy’s magnum opus of the same name. The publication was highly influential on a young Gandhi, eventually famous for the advocation of non-violent protests against physical conflict, and of inner spiritual peace. The installation references this with a pun on ‘the spiritual’, that spirituality can take many forms and that religious experiences, as well as alcohol- or drug-induced are often reported as producing moments described as higher states of consciousness, suggesting that they are, experientially, closely related.

As in the commodification of spiritual belief through the fetishisation of religious symbols, it is also a reference to the commodification of creativity through the fetishisation of original creative output, the posthumous transmogrification of artist into consumable-commodity. One of the most recognisable icons in the world is the Christian crucifix, yet, despite its attributed meanings and associations, it is also a highly desirable fashion icon. Images of a mentally unstable Van Gogh with bandaged ear as a result of self-mutilation are readily available to buy on t-shirts, stationery, calendars. The bottle of alcoholic spirits branded ‘Tolstoy’ is also a demonstration of this, the origin and association of the name lost to branding, saleability, consumption.