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Joe Torr

My practice is an eclectic mixture of medias with a lo-fi quality. My work is not usually permanent and mainly has a performance element to it so is limited to a immediate audience and only lives on within documentation of it whether it be video, Photography or by word of mouth. My work often contains some element of narrative or myth which therefore can be passed on through the oral tradition.

Andreas Slominski is an artist who is embedded with the story of an absurd action that preceded them. Story telling is an important feature of his work, acting to spread word of the work in a myth or folk tale fashion.

Simon Starling makes objects, installations, and pilgrimage-like journeys which draw out an array of ideas About nature, technology and economics. Starling describes his work as ‘the physical manifestation of a thought process’, revealing hidden histories and relationships.

Elgaland-Vargaland Leif Elggren and Carl Michael von Hausswolff proclaimed all Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital as Elgaland-Vargaland creating a myth about the act and its legitimacy.

yoshua okon is a mexican video artist, his work A PropĆ³sito is an installation and video which consists of 120 stolen car stereos and a video of the artist breaking into a car and stealing a car stereo.