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Bob Parks
by Adam Daly

Winter 2021 Timeline


"I hesitate to call him an 'artist'
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'. 

 "He posits himself from
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 is working on all fronts
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


​
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
Published by Matador.  For copies contact: adamdaly54@btinternet.com. 
  • The Outsider Writer 
 Volumes I and II, published by Pauper's Press. For copies contact stan2727@aol.com

Adam Daly is currently working on a new project about Hampstead's cultural scene.

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    • Carl Hyde
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    • Wayne Kirven
    • Soho Power Females >
      • Rosie Arnold
      • Lucinda Ker
    • Apocalypse Soho: The Polledri Interview
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    • Bob Parks by Adam Daly
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