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ZWRP / ZEITWARP

21st Century Artefacts

CONCEPTUAL OBJECTS | GARAGE ART

ZWRP / ZEITWARP

21st Century Artefacts

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

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Zeitwarp is an internationally exhibited multi-disciplinary creative studio based near Cambridge (UK).

Output includes immersive physical paintings, organic digital art, music/sound/noise, live art / multi-sensory installations, metaverse activations..."and all that other mother jazz".

ZWRP is our in-house 'brand' of physical artefacts - including conceptual 'objects', installation pieces and artistic furniture.

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

START HERE

BUY THE TICKET -

TAKE THE RIDE

Zeitwarp is an internationally exhibited multi-disciplinary creative studio based near Cambridge (UK).

Output includes immersive physical paintings, organic digital art, music/sound/noise, live art / multi-sensory installations, metaverse activations..."and all that other mother jazz".

ZWRP is our in-house 'brand' of physical artefacts - including conceptual 'objects', installation pieces and artistic furniture.

CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE

TL:DR / DEEP DIVE

There is a lot more entirely optional info buried in the expandable dropdowns (>>>>) and image slideshows on this page - including detail on the work itself, the concepts behind it, the person who made it, how to buy it - and how you can keep up with what we're doing going forward. However, in the sparse attention deficit desert of modern life not everyone has the time or inclination for this kind of thing - so here's the TL:DR - >>>>

"We make art and artistic objects in a broad range of forms that reflect a set of observations & thoughts about contemporary human existence in our wonderful entropic 'only forwards' universe.

There's a lot of salvaged audio equipment involved and sometimes a few mannequins - and occasionally both.

We hope you enjoy it."

If that's your sort of thing then it would be great if you could take a look at the work - read as little or as much as you want - and maybe sign up for the Outer Limits newsletter at the bottom of the page if you want to know more.

Thanks.

“We were partying hard at the Wilde Möhre Festival near Drebkau in Germany...people danced to the loud and pumping electric music...two pieces of Zeitwarp‘s music note art works were hanging on the wooden walls...majestic and mystically lit up by the flashes of the disco lights and stroboscopes.

Next day, hung over, I bought both paintings...”

'Y.S.' - MUSIC GRAFFITI Owner, Zurich

CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE

TL:DR...OR DEEP DIVE ?

There is a lot more entirely optional info buried in the expandable dropdowns (>>>>) and image slideshows on this page - including detail on the work itself, the concepts behind it, the person who made it, how to buy it - and how you can keep up with what we're doing going forward. However, in the sparse attention deficit desert of modern life not everyone has the time or inclination for this kind of thing - so here's the TL:DR - >>>>

"We make art and artistic objects in a broad range of forms that reflect a set of observations & thoughts about contemporary human existence in our wonderful entropic 'only forwards' universe.

There's a lot of salvaged audio equipment involved and sometimes a few mannequins - and occasionally both.

We hope you enjoy it."

If that's your sort of thing then it would be great if you could take a look at the work, read as little or as much as you want - and given we're not really active on socials any more - maybe sign up for the Outer Limits newsletter at the bottom of the page.

Thanks

“We were partying hard at the Wilde Möhre Festival near Drebkau in Germany...people danced to the loud and pumping electric music...two pieces of Zeitwarp‘s music note art works were hanging on the wooden walls...majestic and mystically lit up by the flashes of the disco lights and stroboscopes.

Next day, hung over, I bought both paintings...”

'Y.S.' - MUSIC GRAFFITI Owner, Zurich

DIGITAL ART | PHYSICAL PAINTINGS | INSTALLATION | OBJECTS | PHREAK MUSIC

EXHIBIT 'Z'

ZWRP/Zeitwarp artwork and creations have been exhibited internationally - both in physical and digital form - in Miami, Lisbon, Berlin, Bangkok, Milan, San Francisco, etc

Other major global art destinations are available...

DIGITAL ART | IMMERSIVE PAINTINGS | INSTALLATION | OBJECTS

DISCOGRAPHY /

SLEEVE NOTES

ZWRP/Zeitwarp work is released in distinct thematic series that support the overall conceptual premise. Each series features a consistent aesthetic with multiple 'nodes' that can include physical, digital, immersive and virtual forms - >>>>

The main series are:

> The Singularities - Unique physical display objects representing the full spectrum of Zeitwarp/ZWRP conceptual themes and forms.

> The NO$TALGIA Show - A long-term series of physical, digital and immersive artworks examining Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Retro-Utopianism and the Nostalgia/NO$TALGIA phenomenon. (Also includes 'No$talgia Unwrapped').

> Displacement Di$CO - Humanity in the Machine Age - includes 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Noise', 'Prometheus Unplugged' and 'Free Jazz'.

> MUSIC GRAFFITI - Physical textured immersive paintings as both artworks in themselves and as the genesis node for a sequence of phase-space recursive transformations between Sound & Vision and Physical/Digital forms. Includes Feedback Loops, Phreak Music and Glitch Breaks digital work.

> The Significance Parade - Significance > Attachment > Transmission. Digital video collage artworks & Art prints including 'Jean-Paul Strummer', and 'I Human'.

> MFI® - Modern Furniture is Rubbish - Occasional one off remixed pieces of discarded landfill lifestyle furniture - (usually IKEA) - "for every dream home".

DIGITAL ART | PHYSICAL PAINTINGS | INSTALLATION | OBJECTS

EXHIBIT 'Z'

ZWRP/Zeitwarp artwork and creations have been exhibited internationally - both in physical and digital form - in Miami, Lisbon, Berlin, Bangkok, Milan, San Francisco, etc

Other major global art destinations are available...

DIGITAL ART | IMMERSIVE PAINTINGS | INSTALLATION | OBJECTS | PHREAK MUSIC

DISCOGRAPHY /

SLEEVE NOTES

ZWRP/Zeitwarp work is released in distinct thematic series that support the overall conceptual premise. Each series features a consistent aesthetic with multiple 'nodes' that can include physical, digital, immersive and virtual forms - >>>>

ZWRP Singularities >

Unique physical display objects representing the full spectrum of Zeitwarp/ZWRP conceptual themes.

The NO$TALGIA Show >

A long-term series of physical, digital and immersive artworks examining Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Retro-Utopianism and the Nostalgia/NO$TALGIA phenomenon. (Also includes 'No$talgia Unwrapped').

Displacement Di$CO >

Humanity in the Machine Age - includes 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Noise', 'Prometheus Unplugged' and 'Free Jazz'.

MUSIC GRAFFITI >
Physical textured immersive paintings as both artworks in themselves and as the genesis node for a sequence of phase-space recursive transformations between Sound & Vision and Physical/Digital forms. Includes Feedback Loops, Phreak Music and Glitch Breaks digital work.

The Significance Parade >

Significance > Attachment > Transmission. Digital video collage artworks & Art prints including 'Jean-Paul Strummer', and 'We are only Human'.

MFI® - Modern Furniture is Rubbish > Occasional one off remixed pieces of discarded landfill lifestyle furniture - (usually IKEA) - "For every dream home".

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

NEVER EXPLAIN / WTF?

"THAT'S JUST LIKE...

YOUR OPINION...MAN"

The four main themes of ZWRP artwork are: Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Significance, and Attachment. No wait, the five main themes of ZWRP artwork are...etc - >>>>

"Among the themes" of ZWRP artwork are...:-)

If we are going to assign a label to the work produced by ZWRP/Zeitwarp then perhaps the most accurate would be 'Post-Conceptual Garage Art'

'Post-conceptual' in that the work is created with intentional meaning to invite consideration of the underlying themes.

'Garage Art' in that it originates from outside of any formal art structure, education and/or classification.

The (six!) foundational themes can be represented as two interconnected triangular structures:

'Transience / Obsolescence /Transformation' and 'Significance / Attachment /Transmission'.

The surface aesthetic and superficial form both embody and draw attention to these fundamental thematic elements - which in turn are the building blocks of a larger conceptual construct that considers the influence and effects of both a halcyonic past and a dystopian future on contemporary human perspectives.

The technology, culture and economy of music is often the motif to communicate these concepts.

NEVER EXPLAIN / WTF?

"THAT'S JUST LIKE...

YOUR OPINION... MAN"

The four main themes of ZWRP artwork are: Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Significance, and Attachment. No wait, the five main themes of ZWRP artwork are...etc - >>>>

"Among the themes" of ZWRP artwork are...

If we are going to assign a label to the work produced by ZWRP/Zeitwarp then perhaps the most accurate would be 'Post-Conceptual Garage Art'

'Post-conceptual' in that the work is created with intentional meaning to invite consideration of the underlying themes.

'Garage Art' in that it originates from outside of any formal art structure, education and/or classification.

The (six!) foundational themes can be represented as two interconnected triangular structures:

'Transience / Obsolescence /Transformation' and 'Significance / Attachment /Transmission'.

The surface aesthetic and superficial form both embody and draw attention to these fundamental thematic elements - which in turn are the building blocks of a larger conceptual construct that considers the influence and effects of both a halcyonic past and a dystopian future on contemporary human perspectives.

The technology, culture and economy of music is often the motif to communicate these concepts.

DIGITAL / PHYSICAL / IMMERSIVE / IRL

CROSSING THE STREAMS

Individual artworks touch multiple nodes, straddling the threshold between physical, digital, live and immersive forms. - "It's probably something quantum" - >>>>

A single work can begin as a physical object within an IRL installation. This source object is then reproduced digitally to become the subject of a series of still frame and video collages, before subsequently undergoing further transformation into sound, followed by extended recursive iterations under the FEEDBACK LOOPS methodology.

Ultimately, the initial object finishes as a 'Singularity' - a conceptual display artefact that encapsulates all the parallel timelines & conceptual ideas of a piece into one unique dense physical IRL display object.

Definitely something quantum...

Meanwhile frames captured from the digital manipulations are reproduced as limited edition fine art prints - released in monthly 'ZWRP drops' to members of the Outer Limits newsletter community.

LANDFILL ART

MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH

The components in every single ZWRP / Zeitwarp piece have been salvaged, recycled, remixed and/or repurposed as part of an overarching 'Re-Make / Re-Model' principle. There are quite a lot of reasons for this - >>>>

The conceptual ZWRP/Zeitwarp universe is an examination of the subjective and objective reverberations of contemporary perspectives of both an halcyonic Ozymandian past and a dystopian Promethean future on present-day human existence.

Curation, attachment, transmission and significance are key factors and levers operating at a human level within the funnel of this examination. While the effects in terms of economics, society, politics and climate are interlinked and recursive.

Sourcing and repurposing discarded and 'end-of-life' components within the work is - at it's basic level - a micro effort to counter/greenwash/atone for the environmental impact of a 20th / 21st century privileged western life.

There is however more to it.

Transience, obsolescence, displacement and the fetish-isation / commodification of nostalgia have all now entered the chat.

Without further rehashing and revisiting these themes - like a three chord progression on a Ramones greatest hits LP - essentially the ZWRP adoption of a 'Re-Make / Re-Model' philosophy and its Duchampian echoes is a method to encompass the full spectrum of ideas that the work is trying to express - within the componentry of the work itself and the actual process of making it.

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"The cycle you are working on is yourself"


Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

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LANDFILL ART

MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH

The components in every single ZWRP / Zeitwarp piece have been salvaged, recycled, remixed and/or repurposed as part of an overarching 'Re-Make / Re-Model' principle. There are quite a lot of reasons for this - >>>>

The conceptual ZWRP/Zeitwarp universe is an examination of the subjective and objective reverberations of contemporary perspectives of both an halcyonic Ozymandian past and a dystopian Promethean future on present-day human existence.

Curation, attachment, transmission and significance are key factors and levers operating at a human level within the funnel of this examination. While the effects in terms of economics, society, politics and climate are interlinked and recursive.

Sourcing and repurposing discarded and 'end-of-life' components within the work is - at it's basic level - a micro effort to counter/greenwash/atone for the environmental impact of a 20th / 21st century privileged western life.

There is however more to it.

Transience, obsolescence, displacement and the fetish-isation / commodification of nostalgia have all now entered the chat.

Without further rehashing and revisiting these themes - like a three chord progression on a Ramones greatest hits LP - essentially the ZWRP adoption of a 'Re-Make / Re-Model' philosophy and its Duchampian echoes is a method to encompass the full spectrum of ideas that the work is trying to express - within the componentry of the work itself and the actual process of making it.

________________________

"The cycle you are working on is yourself"


Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

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IS IT REAL? - OR IS IT MEMOREX?

ORGANIC ONLY

So, yeah, it would be easier to push a button, type a prompt, or give a voice command to generate the images and objects in ZWRP artwork...but where's the fun - or art - in that? Instead everything that you see is real...whatever that means. - >>>>

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"There is no reality except in action."


Existentialism Is a Humanism

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

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ZWRP/Zeitwarp artwork touches on multiple interlinked nodes - physical installation, digital / video art, physical paintings and objects, immersive activations (AR & VR), metaversal, sound/noise. etc.

The common thread is that the source subject of every piece is either a single or collage of real physical objects and images from my own collection of ephemera.

For clarity: nothing is generated by AI or created using 'digital only' tools.

The act of sourcing, collecting, repurposing, assembling and remixing the constituent parts is fundamental to both the subjective creative process and ultimate artistic output.

ZWRP IRL

CHOOSE LIFE

In September 2022 - over two months before Chat GPT launched - I gave a speech at a tech conference in Lisbon addressing the implications, opportunities and response of digital creatives to the emergence of generative AI culture. I probably should have listened to my own advice earlier: - >>>>

In the dopamine-driven fallout zone of post-GPT human culture the attention trade is pretty much the last game in town.

("Same as it ever was..." etc. - Salvador Dali might yet have a few tricks to teach everyone.)

If you've read/listened to any of my articles, interviews, speeches, podcasts etc you'll know that - as an early adopter of digital technologies since Web 1.0 - my views on AI are nuanced and involve a spectrum of thought beyond "machine bad". This is irrespective of any consequences for my own practice.

However - as a social media refusenik in a post-antediluvian open-API web - I've decided to make a choice and the ZWRP dimensional dial has shifted over towards IRL / physical work.

There'll always be some digital output - I still love making it - and art prints will still be available as '2D Spinoffs' from each project - however working in three dimensions will be the main focus for the time being.

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

ZWRP IRL

CHOOSE LIFE

In September 2022 - over two months before Chat GPT launched - I gave a speech at a tech conference in Lisbon addressing the implications, opportunities and response of digital creatives to the emergence of generative AI culture. I probably should have listened to my own advice earlier: - >>>>

In the dopamine-driven fallout zone of post-GPT human culture the attention trade is pretty much the last game in town.

("Same as it ever was..." etc. - Salvador Dali might yet have a few tricks to teach everyone.)

If you've read/listened to any of my articles, interviews, speeches, podcasts etc you'll know that - as an early adopter of digital technologies since Web 1.0 - my views on AI are nuanced and involve a spectrum of thought beyond "machine bad". This is irrespective of any consequences for my own practice.

However - as a social media refusenik in a post-antediluvian open-API web - I've decided to make a choice and the ZWRP dimensional dial has shifted over towards IRL / physical work.

There'll always be some digital output - I still love making it - and art prints will still be available as '2D Spinoffs' from each project - however working in three dimensions will be the main focus for the time being.

"Generative AI will continue to fundamentally change the landscape for creatives, curators and consumers of all types of culture - eradicating access barriers in terms of time and increasing the supply of creative work by an almost infinite amount - to the extent that there will be free self-produced music, free art, free poetry, free graphic design…and of course 'free jazz'." -

Dan Quill / ZEITWARP - Lisbon, 2022

"Generative AI will continue to fundamentally change the landscape for creatives, curators and consumers of all types of culture - eradicating access barriers in terms of time and increasing the supply of creative work by an almost infinite amount - to the extent that there will be free self-produced music, free art, free poetry, free graphic design…and of course 'free jazz'." -

Dan Quill / ZEITWARP - Lisbon, 2022

IN EVERY DREAM HOME

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING

The 'Singularities' are unique physical objects representing both the full spectrum of Zeitwarp/ZWRP conceptual themes - and the collapse of their own prior parallel timelines into one unique ultra-dense physical IRL display object - What does that even mean? - >>>>

The source material for each object has featured previously in physical, digital and/or immersive ZWRP/Zeitwarp artworks.

The Singularities are their final destination.

One part excavated Ozymandian fossilised historical artefact - one part ultra dense object at the centre of a ZWRP conceptual black hole. A plurality of subjective thoughts and alternative variations coalescing into a unique singular object.

Singular / Plural - Object & Subject - WTF is going on here?

Essentially, the Singularities are a series of IRL display pieces made from salvaged audio-visual equipment that has featured in ZWRP/Zeitwarp work. They represent the entirety of the themes behind those previous works - and are sometimes inscribed with text from the previous iterations.

The series is influenced by the sonnet Ozymandias by Shelley - within the framework of ongoing ZWRP/Zeitwarp themes of Transience / Obsolescence / Transformation (object) and Significance / Attachment / Transmission (subject).

The surface of each object is heavily textured with multiple layers of paint, silica and diamond dust. The display stands are constructed individually from discarded / salvaged audio equipment.

'Re-Make / Re-Model' indeed.

“…that’s the kind of Avant Garde that gets my heart up…”

CLARIAN - Anjunadeep Artist, Founder of Tamago Streaming.

ROBOT ROCK

SHOWROOM DUMMIES

So...yeah...what's with all the mannequins? Are they just cool retro robot musicians and cyberpunk sci-fi DJ's from the future?...or human analogues in the digital displacement narrative of the AI singularity?...Why not both ? - >>>>

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"We go into a club, And there we start to dance,

We are showroom dummies, We are showroom dummies"

Showroom Dummies - KRAFTWERK

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Mannequins have become a substitute / placeholder / analogue for the human form through large parts of my work since the first one appeared mysteriously at home one day in 2021.

My partner - in both ZWRP & life - had brought it home and wanted it converted into a decorative standard lamp - which I eventually completed after some trial and error.

At the time I was also working on a piece for an upcoming exhibition on the theme of transhumanism and the AI singularity displacement narrative. I was looking at this headless mannequin and thought that it could become a motif to communicate the conceptual premise of the piece.


Although this wasn't the first time that I had been creating on the theme of AI and humanity - "AI vs HUMAN" was projected onto the Berlin skyline in July 2021 as part of the Gargantuakünst exhibition - it was the first time I was using a mannequin as a 'human replacement' - which seemed to resonate with the themes of the work.

Within a month the resulting digital piece 'HOMO TRANSRETRO' was not only a featured exhibit at the Rare Effect #3 Exhibition in Lisbon, but had also been displayed publicly on the big screen at the city's main Cais Do Sodré metro hub.

I started collecting more mannequins...the more alien and futurist the better - but broken, distressed and damaged examples of these were the best to fit with an Ozymandian / cyberpunk aesthetic.

Soon the studio was full of them. I began to incorporate them more intentionally within my artistic output as human analogues within a series of work - under the working title 'Displacement Di$co' - that focused on the Promethean tension between humanity and technology.

OZYMANDIAS REDUX

SHOWROOM DUMMIES

So...yeah...what's with all the mannequins? Are they just cool retro robot musicians and cyberpunk sci-fi DJ's from the future?...or human analogues in the digital displacement narrative of the AI singularity?...Why not both ? - >>>>

________________________

"We go into a club, And there we start to dance,

We are showroom dummies, We are showroom dummies"

Showroom Dummies - KRAFTWERK

________________________

Mannequins have become a substitute / placeholder / analogue for the human form through large parts of my work since the first one appeared mysteriously at home one day in 2021.

My partner - in both ZWRP & life - had brought it home and wanted it converted into a decorative standard lamp - which I eventually completed after some trial and error.

At the time I was also working on a piece for an upcoming exhibition on the theme of transhumanism and the AI singularity displacement narrative. I was looking at this headless mannequin and thought that it could become a motif to communicate the conceptual premise of the piece.


Although this wasn't the first time that I had been creating on the theme of AI and humanity - "AI vs HUMAN" was projected onto the Berlin skyline in July 2021 as part of the Gargantuakünst exhibition - it was the first time I was using a mannequin as a 'human replacement' - which seemed to resonate with the themes of the work.

Within a month the resulting digital piece 'HOMO TRANSRETRO' was not only a featured exhibit at the Rare Effect #3 Exhibition in Lisbon, but had also been displayed publicly on the big screen at the city's main Cais Do Sodré metro hub.

I started collecting more mannequins...the more alien and futurist the better - but broken, distressed and damaged examples of these were the best to fit with an Ozymandian / cyberpunk aesthetic.

Soon the studio was full of them. I began to incorporate them more intentionally within my artistic output as human analogues within a series of work - under the working title 'Displacement Di$co' - that focused on the Promethean tension between humanity and technology.

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC NOISE #9 - INSTALLATION

ANOTHER FINE EDITION OF YOU

PRINTS...

& THE REVOLUTION

Limited edition art prints are released exclusively to subscribers of the Outer Limits newsletter in a monthly 'ZWRP Drop'. - >>>>

The prints are single frame transformations selected from the full digital video source artwork or physical installation.

Each ZWRP Drop is time limited - and that month's print will be unavailable to collect once the drop is complete. The series will be closed at the number of editions collected (max 49 - plus one artist proof).

The heavy duty 250gsm print will be available either framed or unframed in a choice of sizes and formats - but only with a maximum of 49 editions across all versions.

Sign up for the Outer Limits at the bottom of this page if you would like to know what's coming and get access.

"The quintessence of musical dynamism and tonality captured in a still image. The perfectly delineated single note, itself filled with energy and infinite potential, against the horizontal lines of time. This picture fascinates and enthrals me."

D.M. Musician & Producer, Suffolk, UK.

"The quintessence of musical dynamism and tonality captured in a still image. The perfectly delineated single note, itself filled with energy and infinite potential, against the horizontal lines of time. This picture fascinates and enthrals me."

D.M. Musician & Producer, Suffolk, UK.

TELL ME WHO ARE YOU

"WELL...HOW DID I GET HERE?"

My name is Dan Quill. Zeitwarp is both the name of my studio and the outlet for my multi-disciplinary creative practice - >>>>

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"Well, How did I get here?"

'Once in a Lifetime' - TALKING HEADS

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During a fluctuating and varied career journey, the ideas and output that represent the ZWRP/Zeitwarp concept continued to develop in an inverse relationship with any definition of a conventional vocation or career pathway.

Eventually, it took over completely.

This was probably always going to happen.

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“I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."

DAVID BOWIE

“My career's, uh, slowed down a little lately."

Dude - THE BIG LEBOWSKI

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Finally committing to the life of a full-time creative turned out to be the endgame of a multiverse of convoluted career path spaghetti.

The penultimate and yet ultimately decisive step was a decade long odyssey into the labyrinth of the furniture business - where utopian visions collide with the realities of uniformity, mass production and climate impact.

It triggered a fascination and hunger for meaning, self-expression and sustainability - leading directly to experiments reworking existing objects and artefacts to represent subjective perspectives, observations and experiences.

The work eventually coalesced around ideas and themes that reflected my lived experience and evolving philosophy to the point where the two were inseparable.

Then you just have to go ahead and make it.

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"my life is my art, my art is my life"

COSEY FANNI TUTTI

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Given the lack of any kind of formal art education or training, everything that I produce would normally be categorised as ‘outsider art’ or perhaps more accurately 'art brut' (raw art) within the standard art lexicon.

I prefer the term ‘Garage Art’.

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"We're a Garage Band...We come from Garageland "

'Garageland'- THE CLASH

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The Clash were responding lyrically to being critically dismissed for lacking formal music technique & training in an NME review by Charles Shaar Murray.

Similarly, ‘Garage Art’ perhaps captures the essence of being outside of a 'tent' that will always value three years of art school over three plus decades of thinking about the nature of objective and subjective existence in an aesthetic sensory fashion.

It perhaps also speaks to the quantitative vanity arithmetic of social media as a form of qualitative proof...

TELL ME WHO ARE YOU

"WELL...HOW DID I GET HERE?"

My name is Dan Quill. Zeitwarp is both the name of my studio and the outlet for my multi-disciplinary creative practice - >>>>

________________________

"Well, How did I get here?"

'Once in a Lifetime' - TALKING HEADS

________________________

During a fluctuating and varied career journey, the ideas and output that represent the ZWRP/Zeitwarp concept continued to develop in an inverse relationship with any definition of a conventional vocation or career pathway.

Eventually, it took over completely.

This was probably always going to happen.

________________________

“I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."

DAVID BOWIE

“My career's, uh, slowed down a little lately."

Dude - THE BIG LEBOWSKI

________________________

Finally committing to the life of a full-time creative turned out to be the endgame of a multiverse of convoluted career path spaghetti.

The penultimate and yet ultimately decisive step was a decade long odyssey into the labyrinth of the furniture business - where utopian visions collide with the realities of uniformity, mass production and climate impact.

It triggered a fascination and hunger for meaning, self-expression and sustainability - leading directly to experiments reworking existing objects and artefacts to represent subjective perspectives, observations and experiences.

The work eventually coalesced around ideas and themes that reflected my lived experience and evolving philosophy to the point where the two were inseparable.

Then you just have to go ahead and make it.

________________________

"my life is my art, my art is my life"

COSEY FANNI TUTTI

________________________

Given the lack of any kind of formal art education or training, everything that I produce would normally be categorised as ‘outsider art’ or perhaps more accurately 'art brut' (raw art) within the standard art lexicon.

I prefer the term ‘Garage Art’.

________________________

"We're a Garage Band...We come from Garageland "

'Garageland'- THE CLASH

________________________

The Clash were responding lyrically to being critically dismissed for lacking formal music technique & training in an NME review by Charles Shaar Murray.

Similarly, ‘Garage Art’ perhaps captures the essence of being outside of a 'tent' that will always value three years of art school over three plus decades of thinking about the nature of objective and subjective existence in an aesthetic sensory fashion.

It perhaps also speaks to the quantitative vanity arithmetic of social media as a form of qualitative proof...

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

ANTI-SOCIALS ?

SLAVE TO THE 'RITHM

Social media has evolved into a turbo-charged hunger game of diminishing returns in a dopamine driven digital landscape where the attention trade is the last game in town. - Apparently...there's also a good side - >>>>

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"Never stop the action, Keep it up, Keep it up"

Slave to the Rhythm - GRACE JONES

"It is the consumer who is consumed...You are the end product."

“Television Delivers People” - 1973 | RICHARD SERA

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Yes, social media is pernicious, manipulative, unreliable, addictive etc. Moreover it's also owned by some of the richest narcissists on the planet - (plus ca change / "meet the new boss" / "same as it ever was..." etc).

With the algorithms rewarding engagement and 'time on platform', and in an economy where attention mining is an almost fundamental requirement, it's easy to become committed to chasing the dopamine dragon in a hamster wheel existence.

Let's face it, it's probably a bad thing

The problem of course is that the vanity metrics of 'social proof' are often the key to external perception and - in the case of artists, bands, businesses, whatever - the literal difference between success and failure.

Well - if you've got this far - then my hope is that you will judge this 'book' not by the quantity of its algorithmic social footprint but instead by the quality of the 'content'.

Which is a long way of saying "I'm not playing" - or more specifically..."I'm not prioritising Zuck or Elon's game any more". So - maybe until thee is a decentralised co-operative alternative - no, we are no longer active on any social media - passive...yep occasionally...but active...no.

Life really is too short.

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"Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows"

Rent - TRAINSPOTTING / BORN SLIPPY

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Our focus will be both on IRL networking and our own platform / newsletter community going forward.

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ANTI-SOCIALS ?

SLAVE TO THE 'RITHM

Social media has evolved into a turbo-charged hunger game of diminishing returns in a dopamine driven digital landscape where the attention trade is the last game in town. - Apparently...there's also a good side - more >>

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"Never stop the action, Keep it up, Keep it up"

Slave to the Rhythm - GRACE JONES



"It is the consumer who is consumed...You are the end product."

Television Delivers People
RICHARD SERA

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Yes, social media is pernicious, manipulative, unreliable, addictive etc. Moreover it's also owned by some of the richest narcissists on the planet - (plus ca change / "meet the new boss" / "same as it ever was..." etc).

With the algorithms rewarding engagement and 'time on platform', and in an economy where attention mining is an almost fundamental requirement, it's easy to become committed to chasing the dopamine dragon in a hamster wheel existence.

Let's face it, it's probably a bad thing

The problem of course is that the vanity metrics of 'social proof' are often the key to external perception and - in the case of artists, bands, businesses, whatever - the literal difference between success and failure.

Well - if you've got this far - then my hope is that you will judge this 'book' not by the quantity of its algorithmic social footprint but instead by the quality of the 'content'.

Which is a long way of saying "I'm not playing" - or more specifically..."I'm not prioritising Zuck or Elon's game any more". So - maybe until thee is a decentralised co-operative alternative - no, we are no longer active on any social media - passive...yep occasionally...but active...no.

Life really is too short.

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"Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows"

Rent - TRAINSPOTTING / BORN SLIPPY

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SHUT UP & TAKE MY MONEY!

ZWRP / Zeitwarp work is only available to purchase either through our physical gallery partners or as part of the time-limited monthly 'ZWRP Drops' to subscribers of the 'Outer Limits' newsletter - >>>>

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