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Artist matt mullican has been experimenting with hypnosis to create art that both examines his subconscious and functions as a strategy for breaking from the patterns of everyday life. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification.
Artist matt mullican has been experimenting with hypnosis to create art that both examines his subconscious and functions as a strategy for breaking from the patterns of everyday life. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification.
Artist matt mullican has been experimenting with hypnosis to create art that both examines his subconscious and functions as a strategy for breaking from the patterns of everyday life. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification.
knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Mullican also works with the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it.
Untitled (Learning from That Persons Work: Room 1) 2005
Installation of ink on a paper collage Mounted on 12 cotton sheets, wood, cable and video component. (Colour, Sound; 14:04 min) 12 units each (109 x 88.5) installations dimension variable.
The Art of Writing 2004-2005
The mural is comprised of 64 individual panels. A vinyl template for each image, which is articulated as a positive relief. The yellow canvas is then laid over the template and rubbed by hand, with black oil stick. The imagery of the template is thus transferred, via the rubbing, onto the canvas. 25 x 74 dimensions http://www.middlebury.edu/arts/campus/artexhib/matt_mul lican_the_art_of_writing This multi-volume anthology of articles and images on a broad range of topics endeavored to catalogue all of human knowledge, with an unprejudiced respect for the mechanical arts as well as the intellectual, or liberal, arts. Since the 1970s Mullican has been experimenting with hypnosis to create art that both examines his subconscious, and functions as a strategy for breaking from the patterns of everyday life. Working under these hypnotically induced intoxications or psychoses, Mullican becomes his alter ego, what he refers to as that personan ageless, genderless being that inhabits his physical body. That persons reality is documented through a series of performances wherein he draws, counts, and writes with ink on large sheets of easel paper.
Artist Jean Dubuffet called it pure and authentic
creative impulses influenced him and many of his counterparts. Over the years it has been used to categorize art created by the mentally ill, the incarcerated, and the formally untrained. http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/06/12/tapping -the-subconscious-the-hypnotic-art-of-matt-mullican The work progresses with two main operating methods. Cosmology based on the symbolism of representation consists of a range of signs: photographs, pictograms, diagrams, etc. It generates a form of mental cartography consisting of five distinct parts identified by their respective colour references: green is for the elements, for nature and also for death; blue is for the 'world unframed' by the conscious, including the city and everyday life; yellow is for the 'world framed' constructed by art and science; black is associated with language and signs and red refers to ideas, to pure spirit.