Here is the text of my CAA speech, for those interested who nevertheless cannot attend the annual conference in Boston next week.
As my contribution to our discussion of "Gallery/Museum Comics," I am presenting my own work, which is a "mongrel" combination of installation, painting and comics, and am discussing it in relationship to the definition of comics (sequentiality, word and image, closure, iconosequentiality, etc.), the influence and confluence of comics and fine art, as well as viewers' relationship to the works from the perspectives of both "high" and "low" art --- furthermore, how this art arises from my own personal experiences and background. For the full text of my speech, unfortunately without the slide images click here. Images will be added to the web page in the weeks following the conference.
I'm also hoping to blog-report on a few of the other occurrences and papers at this conference when I return to Europe from Boston. Talk to you then!
Hey Mark,
Great topic for a post - looking forward to seeing the images!
dave
Thanks for the interest. Actually, I shouldn't have written "the full text" --- I have made various handwritten changes which I forgot to add and have left various openings for me to ad lib descriptions and such. (I'm better at extemporaneous speaking than at reading prepared texts. But I thought since I am playing with the "big boys" here --- the art historians and curators --- I had play somewhat by their rules, and they usually read.) When I add images later I'll try to add in the changes, extensions, ad libs etc.
I'm back. The conference was very inspiring, my speech went over very well! I almost immediately got around 8 offers to be a visiting artist, have a show, or give a speech. It was exciting to be intellectually stimulated and treated as if I were (temporarily) "of great artworld consequence."
I'll post a fullfledged blog entry about it all soon --- as soon as I overcome the terrible cold I caught from the combination of weird airplane air and the alternatingly too hot/too cold heating of my first hotel room.