Thursday, January 15, 2015

"the action or process of understanding, as opposed to imagination"



"Conceived as a collaboration between artists and friends, The Intellection of Lady Spider House began when Farmer acquired an inventory of props and objects that had been used in various spook house attractions over the years in and around Vancouver and asked artists to respond to them. The title, while paying homage to American artist Bruce Conner’s 1959 assemblage entitled Spider Lady House, might also be understood as a metaphor for Farmer’s often obsessive web-like process of collecting and reclassification of materials into idiosyncratic systems. "

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