Winter 2021 Timeline
"I hesitate to call him an 'artist'
because he insists he is
an 'anti-artist'"
Adam Daly
because he insists he is
an 'anti-artist'"
Adam Daly
Bob Parks is a truly extraordinary figure in the Arts today. I hesitate to call him an 'artist' however, because he insists he is an 'anti-artist', in the sense that Art itself has been dead for the last century, as has the Novel in my view.
And his aim isn't to resuscitate its corpse nor dance on its grave, but to create new bodies of work and open up new possibilities, that defy all categorization as 'Art'.
And his aim isn't to resuscitate its corpse nor dance on its grave, but to create new bodies of work and open up new possibilities, that defy all categorization as 'Art'.
"He posits himself from
Gospel Christianity and Voodoo
to 'Romantic' Stalinism
and Object-Oriented Ontology."
Adam Daly
Gospel Christianity and Voodoo
to 'Romantic' Stalinism
and Object-Oriented Ontology."
Adam Daly
To this end, he has explored and experimented with many different media - from painting to performance and music to installation. Yet his core-aim is highly conceptual: to move through all these media and beyond them, into both purely abstract realms and 'ontic' ones - drawing on a myriad of appropriated influences, from Collingwood and Cezanne, to Moreau and Malevich; then on to the High Modernists, and Post-Modernists.
He also posits 'Himself' as his 'Subject', but not in an egoistical sense; rather a spiritual and communistic sense, in which he conjoins his own original thinking with many different traditions and movements, from Gospel Christianity and Voodoo, to 'Romantic' Stalinism and Object-Oriented Ontology.
He also posits 'Himself' as his 'Subject', but not in an egoistical sense; rather a spiritual and communistic sense, in which he conjoins his own original thinking with many different traditions and movements, from Gospel Christianity and Voodoo, to 'Romantic' Stalinism and Object-Oriented Ontology.
"He is working on all fronts
to 'become a Being Greater than God'"
Adam Daly
to 'become a Being Greater than God'"
Adam Daly
Above all, he is engaged continually, at every level, with the 'Process' of his work in all its ramifications rather than its 'Product', which may never be reached in any event, and if it can be, could never serve as a final statement.
And he is presently engaged in a Project in which he is working on all fronts to 'become a Being Greater than God': 'No Name Now' - my own fictional/meta-fictional Deus ex Machina creation.
And this will be the fulfilment and culmination of his whole life's work.
Adam Daly
And he is presently engaged in a Project in which he is working on all fronts to 'become a Being Greater than God': 'No Name Now' - my own fictional/meta-fictional Deus ex Machina creation.
And this will be the fulfilment and culmination of his whole life's work.
Adam Daly
Adam Daly is a self published counter-culture author. His anti-novels include.
THE NO NAME NOW TRILOGY
Adam Daly is currently working on a new project about Hampstead's cultural scene.
Adam Daly is a self published counter-culture author. His anti-novels include.
THE NO NAME NOW TRILOGY
- The Outcast's Burden
- The Minotaurs of Terror
- The Reins of the Transfinite
- The Outsider Writer
Adam Daly is currently working on a new project about Hampstead's cultural scene.
