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James R Ford
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General Carbuncle, 2006, Ford Capri, 5000 toy cars
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James Robert Ford is a British artist whose practice is concerned with loss of innocence and the endearment of the loser. The production and aesthetic is that of home made/ made at home, mimicking the outsider, hobbyist or everyday enthusiast. Combining his 'new regressive' tendencies with pub quiz knowledge and chutzpah to create works ranging from a ball of bogies in a broken eggcup, to a formula predicting Bond film plot structure, to inventing a new home-based sport.
General Carbuncle (pictured left) transforms a second-hand Ford Capri into the General Lee, from the Dukes of Hazzard, by covering it in thousands of little toy cars.
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Bogey Ball, 2004
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As a piece of performance and documentation, F*cking Lightning King (pictured right) focuses on the actions and reactions of the video game players, not what's on the TV screen they're watching. A dichotomy is set up between the cute computer game noises and the hatred / bad language used when playing it.
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F*cking Lightning King, 2006, performance
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Feecal and Friends, 2004, installation
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One Handed Starfish, 2002
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Ford is a multi-media artist currently based in London, England. He has co-written and illustrated the book House Gymnastics (published by Random House 2004), had work commissioned for the permanent collection at the Swedish Museum of Modern Art, was nominated for the British Art Show 6, and has received a number of grants from Arts Council England. Ford attended the MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, during 2004-2006.
Projects of note include House Gymnastics (a domestic version of Le Parkour), Feecal the little chocolate starfish (a subversive group of cartoon characters), General Carbuncle (a British version of the General Lee, using thousands of toy cars) and Six Degrees of Smoking (tracking the lives of lost lighters).
Ford has shown internationally and recent venues/exhibitions include Your Gallery@The Guardian, Farringdon Road, London (2006), Terrible Toy Fair III, CBGB Art Gallery, New York, USA (2006), Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway (2005).
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Ford creates websites to accompany his larger projects, which often require involvement or contribution/ collaboration with the public to create the work. His interactive animations and puzzles, displayed in the gallery setting or online, also change the viewer from passive spectator to active participant.
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Fortune Tower, 2002
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House Gymnastics (pictured above) is a faux fitness regime, analogous to an Internet based, Fluxus �happening�, which often encouraged maximum audience participation. The viewer connects with House Gymnastics because it reminds them of their childhood, when they used to climb around the house and explore, with the desire to be one of their wall-climbing heroes like Batman or Spiderman. House Gym empowers the banal domestic setting with new meaning and excitement.
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