curious conduct log: Artist Statement_Aug2010

curious conduct log: Artist Statement_Aug2010

Artist Statement_Aug2010

ANTJUAN ODEN


ARTIST STATEMENT


“The cure for boredom is curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity”
Dorothy Parker


I explore creativity through the utilization of various media, methods, styles and techniques. Spontaneity and randomness play a significant role in my creative process in that much of the material in my work is found or recycled. I find that offers an opportunity to develop bodies of work that are varied in context, composition, and construction. I attempt to analyze the complex, misunderstood, and unsung through universal themes, shape, colors, actions, symbols, words and ideas.
My work makes an effort at healing and understanding experience, and how it relates to our current, past and potential paths and how they connect and bind us all as participant and observer, catalyst and end result.
Another significant themes that inform my work is my own multi-cultural experience and how that experience impacts my existence and relation to world around me. It also makes me curious about other people’s experiences of how their own culture interacts with the world in which they live.
As Dorothy Parker says, “there is no cure for curiosity”, and curiosity is the prevailing stance I take towards my creative efforts.

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Co-exist
2003
Mixed media
A. Oden

http://kunstradio.blogspot.com/

check....it...out.

4 color cherry pops!

 

BULLY BEATDOWN.

MY NEW FAVORITE SHOW: BULLY BEATDOWN
( I DONT ADVOCATE FOR,ENCOURAGE, APPROVE, NOR RECOMMEND TV. I STILL CONSIDER IT A PLAGUE...MIND-FUCKER IF YOU WILL.)
I confess i was bored late,really, really, late last night. I turned on the TV...who can resist hotel TV in the wee hours?
anyway there i was flipping through channel after channel of mindless ridiculousness...
until i came across a this show. in initially i stopped on this channel because of a glance on kim kardashians...um.... pretty smile, or a flashy music video...wait mtv doesn't do that anymore. Well anyway this show is called is called
'Bully Beatdown" it takes bullies and gives them a lesson in manners...
I loved it! i know a couple i would love to nominate...here is one to start with.


bully of the day:
robert powell of Dallas, Texas needs to have his next tv debut on this show, id love to see this a-hole get what he surely deserves....

"IF I DONT NEED SERVICE, NOR PROTECTION THEN I DONT NEED YOU..."


The Gestapo chief wanna be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQFGzaYZV2A

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/03/robert-powell-worst-person-in.html

The Show:

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/bully_beatdown/series.jhtml

GREENER GRASS EATERS OF THE WORLD...UNITE AND TAKE OVER.

HOP.
ON.
DOWN

HERE

.
UP

THIS WAY.

GENIUS IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

IF YOU HEAR ME BEFORE YOU SEE ME CALL THIS NUMBER:-

COLLABORATIONS: SAFETY FIRST

ANTJUAN ODEN AND SAFETY FIRST
ART EXHIBITION OF COLLABORATIVE WORK.
STATEMENT OF INTENT:
THIS IS MY FIRST COLLABORATIVE EFFORT OFFICIALLY WITH SAFETY FIRST.
I HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME ADMIRER OF HIS TENACITY AND PROLIFIC NATION WIDE OUTPUT OF SOME SERIOUSLY AMAZING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING WORK.
THE WORK WE DO OVER THE NEXT 9 MONTHS WILL CULMINATE WITH AN EXHIBITION.
OUR GOAL IS TO DEVELOP A BODY OF WORK THAT REFLECTS NOT ONLY OUR PHILOSOPHIES.BUT, WILL ALSO REFLECT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CURRENT PAST AND FUTURE STATE OF COLONIALISED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD. WE ALSO INTEND TO EXPLORE POP CULTURE THEMES, CURRENT EVENTS, AND ECONOMICS.
ONE OF THE UNDERLYING THEMES THAT WILL BECOME APPARENT WILL BE THE IMPACT ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES, THOUGHT, RELIGION AND PURSUITS ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEMEBERS OF ETHNIC AND CULTURAL GROUPS.
OUR METHODS USED TO COMPLETE THIS BODY OF WORK WILL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
INTERNET, STANDARD POST, TELEPHONE, AND VISITING EACH OTHERS STUDIOS NO LESS THAN ONCE A WEEK TO COMPARE NOTES, SHARE IDEAS, AND WORK ON VARIOUS PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, MUSIC AND WRITING FOR THE EXHIBITION.
IT IS OUR INTENTION TO FOCUS ON PROPSING THE EXHIBITION LOCALLY IN SAN FRANCISCO TO GALLERIES AND OTHER GALLIERIES IN THE USA, JAPAN, EUROPE, AND SOUTH AMERICA.
APPROPRIATELY THE NEXT NINE MONTHS WILL SEE THE GESTATION OF THE ANTJUAN ODEN AND SAFETY FIRST EXTRAVAGANZA! STAY TUNED!

FEB 2009

**THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE THE INITIAL 13 PAINTINGS OF THE TAG TEAM EFFORT.THE IMAGES REPRESENT WORK ON VARIOUS MEDIA THAT I BEGAN (FROM 3YEARS AGO TO NOW) AND "TRADED" OFF TO SAFETY FIRST FOR HIS DYNAMIC INPUT.AND, WHEN HE IS DONE HE WILL DO THE SAME FOR ME UNTIL WE FEEL THEY ARE COMPLETE. THIS IS ONE OF THE METHODS WE WILL BE USING TO CARRY OUT AND COMPLETE THIS PROCESS.
THESE ARE 13 INITIAL PAINTINGS
(FOTOS TAKEN USING 2.0 MEGA PIXEL CAMERA PHONE
FEB.13.2009 OAKLAND,CA)

DIGGING APPLES IN THE OCEAN EAST

DAMN LOSE WEIGHT AND CHANGE COMPLEXIONS
THIS IS SOME REAL POST COLONIAL APOCALYPTIC MINDFUCKISM




WAXING MOONISH

mirror.

EL CAPITAN: STILL FLOATING IN GLACIAL POOLS AT SUNSET .
I FOUND MOSS IN MY POCKET.
"Its Paint on my hands", said the voice on the phone.
.tyrants deserve...

YOU SEE MY THING IS...LOOK AT ALL THE COVERS, THE ONE MAGAZINE THAT SEEKS OUT AND CATERS TO "BLACK" MALES HAS BOOTY ON THE COVER...THIS WAS AT THE AIRPORT IN DENVER..
IT HELPS NOT TO HELP SOMETIMES.
YOU SEE?

THIS LITE NEVER GOES OUT.

Ïîëó-ìèëîðä, ïîëó-êóïåö, Ïîëó-ìóäðåö, ïîëó-íåâåæäà, Ïîëó-ïîäëåö, íî åñòü íàäåæäà, ×òî áóäåò ïîëíûì íàêîíåö.
GOING ON HOLIDAY.

Le drapeau va au paysage immonde, et notre patois etouffe le tambour

Le drapeau va au paysage immonde, et notre patois etouffe le tambour

FREAK-NICKED AS IT NEARED 2am.

THIS WAS A SCHOOL. THE POINT WAS GOOD PIZZA NEXT TO JERK CHICKEN, I WAS A MINUS PLUSSED THERE,
5 POINTING TO THIS AND THERE I REMEMBER.
373 MORELAND
OFF HIGHWAY..HEAR COPULATION BLACK CREAMED,
BUMP AND BUMPS.
THE OWNER WAS A WHITE BEARDED WHITMAN WANNBE DEVIANT
POINTS TO NOW THIS WAY TO BIG BEER AND KRUSTY PINK DROWNING StICKS NOIR.
POINT WELL TAKEN NOW.
ADD+GLAD=DANKE

HER HEART IS A FLOATATION DEVICE WITH LEAD WINGS ON ITS HEAD.

bird?

JUST SAY IT...ALASKA, HOCKEY AND THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES.

(BE GRATEFUL AND ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR PEERS. BUBBLES BURST. ASK ICARUS...)

BUBE PARIS WHERE HAVE WE GONE, ART IS FORGIVING WE ARE NOT.

ANTJUANODEN.COM. shAdows bend shamelessly under pigments impudent weight.

THE POINT IS..

SOOOO DEEP IS THE WELL.

THIS FOR THE PERSON WHO ASKED ME IF I KNEW MY FATHER AND WAS SHOCKED THAT NOT ONLY DO I KNOW HIM, BUT WE ARE VERY CLOSE, I EVEN KNEW HIS FATHER AND THE FATHERS BEFORE HIM ARE LEGEND.
THIS SAME PERSON ALSO WANTED TO APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT HER PEOPLE, (I THINK SHE WAS JEWISH) DID TO MY PEOPLE.

(IDIOTS ABOUND)
P.S.
I HAVE A DIFFERENT LAST NAME BECAUSE MY MOM IS DEMANDING, (AS A WOMAN OF HER CALIBER SHOULD BE.)AND WILL FIRE A HUSBAND WITHOUT HESITATING, MY DAD WAS NOT FIRED BUT HE AS OFTEN HAPPENS WITH YOUNG LOVERS, THINGS DON'T WORK OUT. VIETNAM DIDNT HELP, SO HE REMARRIED AND MY MOM REMARRIED, THUS MY LAST NAME.

MEET LIEUTENANT A. LONG III AND THE LATE GREAT A. "BUDDY" LONG JR.
I WAS ABOUT 12 WHEN THIS WAS TAKEN.

Im thinking right now, as i write of a to sink into this post.
why dont i just post some photos, i cant seem to put words together to convey what i feel. I will say this, WHEN YOU HERE ON THE NEWS THAT YET ANOTHER HUMAN BEING HAS BEEN KILLED BY POLICE, HELL ONE CASE WHERE IT WAS THE KILLING COPS SECOND MURDER IN 15 MONTHS! AND NOT ONE VALD SHOUT OF FOUL, WHEN YOU HEAR THIS AND THEN HEAR A STORY OF BRAVE, CARING , LOVING, PEACEFUL HUMANS RISKING THEIR LIVES AND FREEDOM TO SAVE TREES, T MAKES YOU QUESTION HUMAN NATURE. I HAVE NOT YET HEARD ANYONE RISKING LIFE AND LIMB, CHAINING THEMSELVES TO THE DOOR OF THE POLICE PRECIENT TO DEMAND ANSWERS FOR THESE DEATHS OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. I DO NOT HEAR CRIES OF PROTESET ABOUT THE CONDITION OF SCHOOLS IN THE POORER AND NON-WHITE COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA. I DO NOT SEE CROWDS GATHERING OUTSIDE THE EMBASSIES OF COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN ALL SORTS OF MAYHAM AGAINST HUMAN BEINGS. I DO NOT SEE ANYONE CHAINING THEMELVES TO A HOMELESS PERSON DEMANDING
THEY BE FEED AND HOUSED..I CAN GO ON BUT I WANT OFFER PICTURES. LOOK AT THEM AND THINK.
ONE CONCLUSION THAT SEEMS OBVIOUS IS,THE WORLD IS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FULL OF SHIT, AND PEOPLE WHO DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SAVING ANYONE BUT "THEMSELVES" OR A TREE.
WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
I CAN RESPECT SOMEONE MORE WHO SAYS OUT RIGHT: "I DONT CARE ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF ANYONE BUT A CHOOSEN FEW" THATS BEING HONEST, AND THAT DESERVES MORE RESPECT THAN SOMEONE HANGING UPSIDE DOWN TO SAVE A TREE, BUT QUICKLY RETREATING FROM REAL BRUTALITY AGAINST HUMAN BEINGS" FUCK YOU AND YOUR TREE!
(PROTESTNG IS COOL DUDE!)
(PROTESTING IS A GOOD WAY TO GET LAID!)
(PROTESTING IS FUN!)
(PROTESTING IS WASTE OF TIME UNLESS IT IS TIME NOT WASTED.)

OR COULD IT BE:
KEEP THE POOR, POOR UNDER-EDUCATED, OPPRESSED AND BRUTALIZED BY THE CRIMINAL
IN- JUSTICE SYSTEM, PRETEND YOU CARE UNLESS IT MAKES LIFE FAIR FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO EAT THE SAME GOOD FOOD YOU DO, DRIVE THE NICE CARS YOU DO, LIVE IN SAFE COMMUNITIES, LIKE YOU DO, HAVE HAPPY STABLE FAMILIES LIKE YOU DO, COMPETE, YOU KNOW SURVIVE...














THE COST TO THE TAX PAYERS (AS YOU READ THIS THINK ABOUT THOSE KIDS IN NEARBY OAKLAND WHO HAVE NO ART PROGRAMS OR SCHOOL BOOKS, OR TEACHERS LIVING IN SQAULOR)
UC Berkeley-ites take to the trees, protest campus connections to British Petroleum - others are in the trees re saving the historic oak trees , still others have diffrent reasons. How come no one ever sits in trees over the border issue? This is the kind of thing that should appear on that “Stuff White People Like” that I linked to last month. Or is protesting in trees about “Things White People Dislike” ? I emailed this to some less ‘privileged’ at a state school, who have bigger, more awful things to protest about- they laughed.

UC Berkeley officials say the tree-sitters have cost the school $367,000 since the protest began one year ago:

$100,000

Police staffing

$125,000

Private security

$37,000

First fence around protest site

$80,000

Second fence around protest site

$25,000

Equipment, cleanup and other costs

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/02/BAONTM4SC.DTL

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY?

Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9
Good health is merely the
slowest possible rate at
which one can die.

Number 8 (love this one!)
Men have two emotions:
Hungry & Horny. If you see him
without an erection, make him
a sandwich.

Number 7
Give a person a fish & you feed
them for a day; teach a person
to use the Internet & they
won't bother you
for weeks.

Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky..........
not really good for anything, but
you still can't help but smile
when you shove them
down the stairs.

Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel
stupid someday, lying in
hospitals dying of
nothing.

Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from
the weather. It pays no attention
to criticism.

Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost
you two hundred dollars and a
substantial tax cut saves
you thirty cents?

Number 2
In the 60s, people took acid to make
the world weird. Now The world is
weird and people take Prozac
to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1
THOUGHT FOR 2007:

We know exactly where one cow with
Mad-cow-disease is located among
the millions of cows in America, but
we haven't got a clue as to where
thousands of illegal immigrants
& terrorists are located.

Maybe we should put the
Department of Agriculture
in charge of immigration.....?

tAKEN FROM SCRUVZ (I WISH I HAD COME UP WITH THESE JEWELS)

AFFIRMATION ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

TODAY WE HAD STRANGERS COME INTO OUR HOME. IT WAS FOR AN INSPECTION FOR CONDO-CONVERSION. IF YOU LIVE IN THE BAY AREA YOU KNOW WHAT HELL THIS CAN BE. SO HERE WE ARE HOUSE IN UTTER CHAOS, ME WITH DAY THREE OF 2 HOURS OF UNSOUND SLEEP. FOUR GUYS WITH NOTEPADS AND CLIPBOARDS INVADED MY MY MORNING. AS I PROCEEDED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THE STRANGERS IN GET THIS OUR HOUSE...I NOTICED A COUPLE OF THEM SEEMED TO HAVE MISTAKEN ME FOR THE HELP,OR MAYBE THEY WERE AS OVER THIS HIDEOUS DAYLIGHT THING AS I WAS,(LONG HARD NIGHT) OR MAYBE THEY WERE SOME CLOSET BIGOT ASSHOLES, OR MAYBE THEY WERE JUST ASSHOLES WHO KNOWS? (BEING AF-AMER WE HAVE A HARD TIME TELLING SOMETIMES, WE GET IT FROM SO MANY DIRECTIONS IN THIS WAY, YOU KNOW POST JIM CROW TRAUMA)
THE POINT BEING EXACTLY THAT, AS THE BIG GORGEOUS BROWN HUNK OF MAN MEAT THAT I AM ITS HARD TO DISTINGUISH DISDAIN FROM APATHY FROM BIGOTRY FROM LACK OF SLEEP FROM A GENERAL SHITTY DISPOSITION.
HOW DO I KNOW IF SOMEONE IS BEING RUDE AND CALLOUS BECAUSE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PRONE TO BE A DICK, OR MAYBE THEY HAD TO REFER TO THE HAND ONCE TO OFTEN OR THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT BILLS, OR HAVE A HEMORRHOID THAT IS A MONSTER...WHO CAN TELL.
WELL WHEN YOU COME INTO SOME ONES HOME...FOR WHAT EVER REASON, GENERALLY SAYING HELLO IS A GOOD IDEA, LEAST YOU BE MISTAKEN FOR A THIEF, JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, INSURANCE SALESPERSON,OR THE MOST FRIGHTENING OF ALL AN IN LAW (MY PARTNER IS A WHITE CHICK)
SO THIS ONE GUY GIVES ME THIS
"HEY BOY" KIND OF LOOK. I KNOW THIS LOOK I'M FROM THE SOUTH AND IVE SEEN ROOTS AT LEAST 20 TIMES..
I'M LIKE HI, WELCOME! HI, WELCOME! I HAD TO SAY IT A COUPLE TIMES...FINALLY HE REACHED OUT WITH HIS LIMP HAND SHAKE TO MEET MY MEAT HOOKS. WOW THE NERVE I THOUGHT, THEN I SAID TO MYSELF, SELF REMEMBER ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT CLOSET KLANSMAN, RELAX...SO I MOVE THE CHIP FROM MY SHOULDER TO MY BELLY ( I WAS HUNGRY). AS THE CHATTER WENT ON ABOUT THIS CODE AND THAT CODE...PRIMARILY REFERRING TO MY PARTNER, THE WHITE CHICK,
AS I'M STRUGGLING WITH A LADDER TO REACH THE CEILING WHICH HAPPENS TO BE 20 FEET ABOVE, HE CREEPS BEHIND ME AND SAYS..."I NEED TO GET THROUGH HERE BOY!" OKAY HE DID NT SAY BOY BUT HIS TONE SURE DID. NOW WHERE I'M FROM, YOU FIRST OF ALL SAY HELLO WHEN ENTERING SOMEONES HOME, YOU LOOK THEM IN THE EYE INTRODUCE YOURSELF, YOU SAY EXCUSE ME IF YOU WANT TO PASS THEM..ESP. IF THEY ARE 3 FEET TALLER THAN YOU AND 40 LBS HEAVIER AND YOU NEVER KNOW...(IT COULD BE ANGRY BLACK MAN OVER REACT AND FREAK OUT DAY)
WELL I LOOKED THIS JERK IN THE EYE AND SAID, YEAH IN A SECOND...
(REALIZING THIS WAS AN OFFICIAL WHOSE REPORT DEALT WITH OUR CONDO CONVERSION)
HE DECLINED TO WAIT , I DECLINED TO PUT MY FOOT IN HIS YOU KNOW WHAT( YEAH, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL) BUT I AT LAST HAD ENOUGH. I TOLD THE WHITE CHICK, WHITE CHICK LOVE, I'M GOING FOR A FAG BEFORE I IMPLODE.SO I HOP IN THE CAR AND HEAD TO WHERE I GO TO SMOKE FAGS AND RELAX...THE CAR WASH STALL TWO BLOCKS AWAY.
AS I'M LISTENING TO THE RADIO SOME GUY, THE HEAD OF THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY IS RANTING ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. HERE I AM IN A STATE OF BLACK ANGER AND HUMILIATED CONFUSION, AND THIS GUY IS CRYING ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, WELL I WAS STEAMING NOW.
FOLKS WE HAVE SO MUCH HEALING TO DO IN THIS COUNTRY. I WILL ADMIT TO HAVING A CHIP ON MY SHOULDER TO HAVE BIGOTED,CHUAVANISTIC, TENDENCIES, TO BE HOMOPHOBIC, XENOPHOBIC,HATE SMALL ANIMALS, AND CRYING BABIES,$20 CARS WITH $2000 RIMS,CHURCH, SOGGY SANDWICHES, HELL SOMETIMES I SIMPLY HATE EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY, BUT I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS NOT HOW I WANT TO BE. BUT OH BOY, SOME TIMES ...LIFE JUST HANDS YOU HATE ON A SILVER PLATTER.
LISTEN I HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THIS I WANT TO CLARIFY IT. FOR ME AND ANYONE WHO GOT SUFFERED THE BAD GRAMMAR AND SPELLING TO GET THIS FAR (EMAIL I HAVE A PRIZE FOR YOU, REALLY!)
BASICALLY I WANT TO OFFER THIS AS A THOUGHT: RESPECT WORKS TWO WAYS.
AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?
WELL LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING PICTURES AND THINK ABOUT IT. IT AIN'T NEW ITS JUST SHIFTING ITS FOCUS...WHAT DO YOU THINK?
(PS MY WHITE CHICK POWER FRAU PARTNER LOVER, FRIEND, NEMESIS TRENCH-PAL ROCKS SO HARD SHE IS TRANSLUCENT.)

P.S
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RACE!!!

The Eagle has taken off.

BUSY ISNT BUSY ENOUGH. TAKE A PICTURE SWEETIE I AINT GOT TIME TO WASTE.

THIS IS SOMETHING I AM ALSO PASSIONATE ABOUT, RECYCLING OLD FURNITURE, AND OTHER FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS. I ACTUALLY WANTED TO OPEN A SHOP WHERE I SOLD THINGS I RESCUED FROM THE REALM OF THE UNWANTED. GIVEN SOME IMAGINATION AND SWEET EFFORT..THESE THINGS COULD COME BACK FROM THE THRIFT STORE DEATH POOL. WELL HERE IS SOMETHING , NOT QUITE THRIFTY IT WAS A COMMISSION FROM A JOINT IN THE MISSION CALLED EL RINCON.
THIS PLACE IS GREAT, RUN BY MIKE A NIGERIAN WHO IS A MASTER FRENCH/INDIAN CHEF WHO RUN A CUBAN/MEXICAN RESTAURANT BY DAY, BUT WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING THERE FROM JAPANESE GOTH ROCK TO VOODOO CABARET TO RUMBA, SAMBA, SALSA, TRANCE, DRUM AND BASS HOUSE, GANGSTA RAP, OLD SCHOOL PUNK OR ANYTHING YOU CANT IMAGINE, ITS AMAZING.
THE GREEN ROOM..THE GREEN ROOM.
THERE ARE ALSO SOME SHOTS OF A MURAL I DID THERE, THE ENTIRE ENTRANCE WAY..EXCUSE ME, ves·ti·bule OH, AND THE FOOT TALL WOODEN ANGEL CUTOUT WITH THE 7 FOOT WINGSPAN.
(I WILL HAVE BETTER DOCUMENTATION OF THIS ON MY WEBSITE SOON.)