randallpacker.com

Currently viewing the tag: "dream"

Bursting the Bubble

By Randall Packer On 05/19/2013 at 6:14 pm · 3rd Space, Future is Here, US Department of Art & Technology

why i feel the need to situate myself under the lights

By Randall Packer On 06/21/2011 at 10:06 pm · art, performance

Living the movie is the movie

By Randall Packer On 01/22/2011 at 7:57 pm · I am the Movie, life in general, The Post Reality, The Post Reality Show

The total embrace of the image

By Randall Packer On 01/12/2011 at 11:50 am · life in general, Strategic Forgetfulness, The Post Reality

It’s Over

By Randall Packer On 09/24/2010 at 10:11 pm · darkness, hell, It's Over, The Post Reality Show

Artist as Mediator: The History of the US Department of Art & Technology (2000-2005)

By Randall Packer On 07/11/2007 at 6:24 pm · US Department of Art & Technology, Writing

“Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediation between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.” – Pablo Picasso I moved from California to Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, at the turn of the millennium. Shortly thereafter, with the September 11th attacks, the nation began a dramatic descent into dark times, conditions that would deteriorate throughout the first decade of the 21st century. I found myself with a job to do in Washington, an artist in the center of power during times of crisis. I held a desire to engage, not as a passive observer, but with an active role: the artist’s role, one who sees, listens, analyzes, and translates. I found myself with a mission to construct a mythology that would illuminate the dangerous mechanisms of the unfolding political situation in America. This resulted in the founding of the virtual government agency, the US Department of Art & Technology (USDAT). The following narrative account is a portrait of the artist in time of war, the artist as mediator “between a strange, hostile world and the human spirit.”

Bursting the Bubble

why i feel the need to situate myself under the lights

Living the movie is the movie

The total embrace of the image

It’s Over

Artist as Mediator: The History of the US Department of Art & Technology (2000-2005)

Contact

Recent Posts

Studio Photostream

My Clouded Mind

Twitter blah-blah-blah

Projects

Website

Looking Back

Search

Archives

reportage from the aesthetic edge

Randall Packer © 2013