EVENT ONE – DOUG FISHBONE

7th May 2010

Performance talk

Artist Doug Fishbone performed one of his celebrated comic slide-show lectures, taking his audience on a journey through his mildly warped imagination. Illustrating his narration with hundreds of images downloaded from the internet, Fishbone has come up with a new and innovative form of story-telling that sits strangely at the crossroads between high and low, leading one critic to describe him as a “stand-up conceptual artist”. His work functions as a form of visual rhetoric that employs strategies of advertising and propaganda to explore the often dubious relationship between image and text, and investigate the relativity of perception and understanding. He weaves complicated visual and narrative tapestries that recycle the freely available imagery of the mass-media, satirizing many of the outrages and excesses of the contemporary moment in the process.