Meet the Pattis
The Patti Smiths
To date it has taken 998 emails for the west oz art collective, The Patti Smiths, to (nearly) get their shit together for this exhibition. A percentage of the emails establish that the members prefer Patti Smith’s human frailties and approach to life over her actual work. Whilst Patti’s name evokes New York rarefied air, it is the opposite bored and scared atmosphere of Perf that gives rise to the Patti’s. In the CoVid, climate changing Trumpocalypse the need for curation was abandoned in favour a more honest form of ‘choosing’ - free from whatever it is curator’s worry about. And it only took 1000 emails.
To date it has taken 998 emails for the west oz art collective, The Patti Smiths, to (nearly) get their shit together for this exhibition. A percentage of the emails establish that the members prefer Patti Smith’s human frailties and approach to life over her actual work. Whilst Patti’s name evokes New York rarefied air, it is the opposite bored and scared atmosphere of Perf that gives rise to the Patti’s. In the CoVid, climate changing Trumpocalypse the need for curation was abandoned in favour a more honest form of ‘choosing’ - free from whatever it is curator’s worry about. And it only took 1000 emails.
THE PATTI SMITHS MANIFESTO
Patti Smith
concerned more about bees than terrorists
prototypical
contemporary artist;
bibliophile,
poet,
pilgrim;
mother,
writer,
rock star,
polaroid shooter,
paper napkin journal jotter;
Patti’s everyday
imbued with the cosmic
coupled with the Universe;
but why does she watch
all that crap television?
Perth’s disparate and famously
non – conforming;
Patti Smiths Art Collective;
describe their work
loosely as
neo-modernist,
post / retro-punk
with ironic dollops of pomo kitsch.
Starring – Kevin Ballantine, Emma Dowdell, Mike Gray, Joe Landro, Sarah Landro, Nicole Lobry de Bruyn, Graham Miller, Harry Reid-Sadler, Duncan Wright.
