The following is a statement regarding the future of the ARSEO.
Over the past three years I have attempted to create art which hopefully explored how ideas, beliefs (no matter how ludicrous) are shaped and disseminated through popular culture.
Over this brief period of existence it has become apparent that the methodologies selected to explore these themes where somehow flawed. Rather than creating a platform which would promote discussion about how these ideas come about (I also wanted it to reflect our relationships with art in general) it seemed to produce a closed system thereby making me another crackpot theorist rather than an explorer of crackpot theories. I even begin to question if it's even regarded as art.
One thing that is at fault is my inability to develop the ARSEO concept further finding it difficult to engage the work I create in some kind of critical discourse (whatever that means). Also there are artists who explore concepts similar to mine* but more thoroughly, better and in a more expectable format (?) In part these artists have led to this revaluation and to the conclusion that I cannot carry on the ARSEO concept any further at the present time. (Though this may just be a hiatus)
We live in uncertain times, I still want to create in one form or another but for now the dream is interrupted.
Higamos Hogamos
C.James Fagan
