PHILIP BABOT
By setting himself a lengthy, seemingly mundane task the artist achieves a simple outward aesthetic and unconsciously confronts his id. While forced to contemplate his own visage, he is encouraged to look upon a universe seldom glimpsed. In concentrating on the immediate, his mind becomes untrammelled with the problems encountered when trying to attain the absolute. He is liberated by his unconscious self. Subject and object have become one and the same.
We can either gaze at something or through it.
Something becomes Nothing.
Philip Babot creates live occurrences.
His 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.
He is currently researching his PhD Performance Artist as Shaman and Mediator in Contemporary Society at Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC, where he is a core member of the SHIFTwork Time Based Art Research Group.
He is a founder member and board member of Trace installation art space, Cardiff.