Grounded
The rectangle is the ultimate symbol of Modernism. It is the constraining framework of the art world, the white cube status quo. By setting himself a series of lengthy, seemingly mundane tasks the artist achieves both a simple outward aesthetic as well as unconsciously confronting his id. Whilst forced to contemplate the ground, the artist is made aware of the world upon which he normally stands aloof. In concentrating on the immediate, his mind becomes untrammelled by the problems encountered when trying to attain the absolute. He is liberated by hisA unconscious self. Subject and object have become one and the same.
We can either gaze at something or through it.
Something becomes Nothing.
Philip Babots installations embrace the trace elements of the performative act and explore the Zen notion of the space between birth and death. Based in Wales, he has worked throughout the U.K. and across Europe, the Americas and the Far East, both as a solo artist and with influential performance companies such as Brith Gof.
He received a MA in Fine Art in 2002 and is currently researching his PhD Performance Artist as Shaman and Mediator in Contemporary Society at The Centre for Research in Art and Design, Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC. Philip recently undertook a year long psycho-geographical project, The Long Road to the North, funded by an Arts Council of Wales.
Philip is a founder member of trace: installation art space, Cardiff.