The Enemy
The Enemy (2008-) is an ongoing collaboration with filmmaker and writer Jeffrey K.Miller that revisits the life and career of Wyndham Lewis, an English painter, critic and novelist best known as the leader of a short-lived, 1910s avant-gardist movement called Vorticism.
This project takes shape as a series of commission-based manifestos, which
scramble the typography of the pages of BLAST! 1, the first issue of the seminal Vorticist publication. The content of these manifestoes reflects the interests of the commissioning agents, and the commissioning process echoes the appropriation of rhetorical and graphical affect from the source material of BLAST!
As part of HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look!, at Form Content, London, Coburn and Miller debuted a fictional radio interview with Lewis (played by actor Chris Polick) over three, live listening events. These events were organized by curator Irene Aristizabal.
The Enemy (Installation View)
2008 - present
Fog, audio broadcast, freestanding door, knobs, knockers, benches, canvas, manifesto
On each night of broadcast, eighteen audience members were individually led into a fog-filled room and asked to sit, knee-to-knee, on two rows of benches.
Click the following links to hear field recordings of each event:
+ Thursday, July 1st, 8pm - 9pm
+ Friday, July 2nd, 8pm - 9pm
+ Saturday, July 3rd, 8pm - 9pm
'How do you know what it looks like?' (Installation View)
Pia Borg, Tyler Coburn & Jeffrey K. Miller, Dan Scott, Juan Sebastian Suanca and Mark Aerial Waller
Curated by
Irene Aristizabal.
1 - 4 July 2010
Part of
HaVE A LoOk! HAve a Look!
Form Content, London
The Enemy (detail: Openings & Closings)
2008 - present
Fog, audio broadcast, freestanding door, knobs, knockers, benches, canvas, manifesto
The Enemy (detail: WL14/TC10))
2008 - present
Fog, audio broadcast, freestanding door, knobs, knockers, benches, canvas, manifesto
WL14/TC09
2009, Pamphlet advert/Manifesto,
11.7 x 16.5 inches
Commissioned by London i-cabin for subvision.art.festival.off, Hamburg DE.
Pamphlet advertisement/manifestos and rock
Installation view: Entry Points, curated by i-cabin for subvision.art.festival.off, Hamburg DE.
2009, Pamphlet advert/Manifesto,
5.5 x 8 inches
Commissioned by Summer Guthery
for Changing Light Bulbs In Thin Air,
CCS/Hessel Museum of Art,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Left: Pamphlet for Changing Light Bulbs In Thin Air, curated by Summer Guthery,
CCS/Hessel Museum of Art,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2008, Magazine advert/Manifesto,
10 x 6.75 inches
Commissioned by Cleopatra's for the October 2008 issue of The Journal