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Ivan Massow: wonderful bastard!

 
 
Tom Coates
16:21 / 02.02.02
Ok - this is simultaneously the most incredibly funny, wonderfully arrogant, and most immediately prone for detournement thing I've ever heard of in my life.

I got a wonderful e-mail from the old bastard, Mr Massow himself. It reads as follows:

quote:
Unfortunately, It definitely looks as if they will try to sack me when the
ICA council meets formally on Monday. The ICA was built on debate and on
challenging establishment. If they fire me for giving my opinion, it doesn't
say much for what the ICA has become. (The ICA founders would be spinning in
their graves!)

Anyway, it seems that quite a lot of people will be coming to the ICA on
Monday to support me - in the hope that it may 'help' my ICA Council members
to get a little perspective on the issue. Some are coming armed with
waterpistols! (I sent a water-pistol to the director as a 'concept gun' for
my execution).

I thought I'd mention it and say that if, by chance, you're in the West End
on Monday, and feel like popping down at 6pm - I'd really love the support.
Same goes for anyone else you know who may feel similarly.


Ivan.

PS - As you can imagine, there may well be a few people from the press there
- please feel free to give them a piece of your mind!


Can anyone think of some wonderful short-term easy to organise art-pranks that we could use to make this whole thing endlessly more entertaining?!
 
 
bio k9
16:36 / 02.02.02
If you know anyone that has a rather large sculpture in their garage you could use it to block the doors of the place. I plan to do this next time I get something in one of the local galleries. That or have a friend steal one of my paintings.

Chalk outlines and buckets of blood are another favorite. See if the local police will let you borrow some crime scene tape, they might (ours did) if you tell them its for a school project. Then watch as people wander around a completely unattended "crime scene." Oh my god! What happened here? Where are the police? I swear to god, this shit is sooo FUN to watch!
 
 
Tom Coates
16:42 / 02.02.02
I'm thinking so far of placards reading "Sack Ivan (and give me his job)", flyers which read "In a way, aren't we ALL the chairman of the ICA?" and a rousing chant of "Free the Mayfair One"

Who's with me brothers?! Let's take irony to the streets where it belongs and make a mockery of the whole thing...
 
 
Tits win
19:25 / 03.02.02
in a dadaist spirit (oh what is the dada spirit?) why not shit in a toilet. and put it on a table. shout NNNNI GKJI RJUI JDOWIE at the meeting.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
04:45 / 04.02.02
um...might it not be appropriate to set a pack of hunting dogs on the bastard?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
14:36 / 04.02.02
he wouldn't last two rounds with Tracey Emin. sic 'im Trace!
 
 
Ganesh
15:57 / 04.02.02
Just to clear things up for me... Tom, are you stalking Mr Massow or is he stalking you?
 
 
The Planet of Sound
20:47 / 04.02.02
And he's just resigned, glorious insurance-chance taking millionaire that he is. Ach weeel; never fuck with da establishment.

By the way, is 'Little stabs at Happiness' still going on at the ICA? That was fun...
 
 
The Planet of Sound
20:48 / 04.02.02
Gerald Ratner parallels abound, also...
 
 
Shortfatdyke
07:38 / 05.02.02
read about the squabbling here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,645147,00.html

[ 05-02-2002: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]

[ 05-02-2002: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]
 
 
Tom Coates
07:38 / 05.02.02
Oh i fear that I'm stalking him. Except in a not actually doing much about it kind of way. I don't go to his house or anything. I just write about him on the interhighweb.

Plus we have met a few times, and he does e-mail me (very occasionally) mainly when he wants something.
 
 
Mr Ed
10:56 / 06.02.02
On a total tangent, he is the kind of person you want to see on Big Brother (or failing that the comic relief dunk tank)

I'm all for mandatory public humilation for the priggish
 
  
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