Art should change, challenge or enhance the audience’s perception of an entity in the world.
Aphorism #5
Art is a manifested resolution of an existing contradiction.
Aphorism #4
Art is articulating your own opinions. Design is articulating other people’s opinions.
Aphorism #3
Art is being idiosyncratic on a public scale
Mind Over Matter
Mind Over Matter was performed at Birmingham International Festival for Live and Time Based Art in September 2007 following an inaugural performance by Dr Roland C. Miller. This entry acknowledges the conundrum Miller identifies between the act of documentation defeating the value of live performance, and the problem of non-documentation in the context of self-advancement.
Performance
Birmingham International Festival for Live & Time Based Art.
1 & 2 September 2007
The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Digbeth, Birmingham, B12 0QH
MattyRed Attitude
For Steventon there is no real separation of ends and means. There is instead a relationship which is circular and ongoing. Traditionally artist and audience are divided; they are Liverpool and Everton. In Steventon’s interpretation, manifestation and response, they are United.
John ColemanLondon Metropolitan University
As an Artist, James Steventon is an intelligent and articulate presence whose sceptical and questioning work highlights the debate within himself as to how to set about making Art he can believe in.