ben frost

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  • ben frost

  • 34 / Male
  • sydney, New South Wales, AU
  • Last Login: 11/4/2009

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    prints of my artwork available here: www.stupidkrap.com.
    my website: www.benfrostisdead.com
  • Movies

    (excerpt from DESKTOP MAGAZINE interview)
    How do you think pop art has changed since its emergence in the 1950’s? How has the representation of society changed since then?

    Irony is the gift that pop art gave the world, and whether you still have the receipt or not – it’s a gift that can’t be exchanged.
    Pop art hasn’t really changed I think, it’s just become more ingrained as a methodology to which we all accept and use as a means of expression. Take Myspace.com for example, the way in which people communicate to each other is a variant on Warhol’s idea of ‘second presentation’. A random jpeg is posted as a comment in place of actual words – the content within the jpeg having the same imbibed meaning as producing a Campbell’s soup can. We communicate through logos, icons, readymade clip-art and endless cover versions of songs, fashions and mobile phone wallpapers. We are all walking talking pop artworks.
    I think with any art movement, the idea comes to a point in its inception and from there it manifests into a variation on the same idea. So sometimes it becomes difficult, especially if I were to approximate myself as a Post Post Neo-Post Post Pop Artist. Society now is more severe. The popular world is more overt and omnipresent. We can’t escape the advertising slogans and sales pitches that are beamed at us 24 hours a day. Pop art’s role, therefore I think, must be one that is critical of that world by subverting and re-presenting the very content that it often violently attacks us with. Though I can see sometime soon ‘Culture Jamming’ will be deemed a terrorist activity by our conservative corporate dictators, and we’ll all be imagining our next paintings from inside a cell.
  • Television

    I want to see oprah winfrey fight dr. phil with weapons chosen by a studio audience. then on the new price is right, if you don't select the right amount for the car/omelette maker etc leeches will cover your entire body.
  • Books

    (excerpt from interview with DEADBEAT magazine)
    What is your fascination with promiscuous cartoon iconography?

    Television is a medium that has been adapted and streamlined as a vehicle for commercials. This is most obvious when you watch Saturday morning children's cartoons. The content of a cartoon is basically flashing colours, funny voices and dynamic jingles that is interrupted every 6 minutes by a series of sales pitches by toy companies to buy their new products. The cartoon program is just 'filler' for what the tv station is actually presenting: paid advertising in the form of commercials.
    When you realise this is actually the way the entire system is structured, it's not hard to feel as if you've been cheated - that those tv presenters and those cartoon characters on the screen aren't really who they say they are. I use the metaphor of a cartoon character involved in sex and violence to illustrate and reinforce the idea that there is something more insidious behind their big eyes and colorful smiles.
  • Heroes

    (excerpt 2 from interview with DESKTOP magazine)
    To date, what is the most controversial piece of artwork you have created? Did you expect this response?

    The most controversial piece would have to be the collaboration I did with Roderick Bunter ‘Where Do You Want To Go Today?’’ which exhibited at the Brisbane IMA & the Sydney MCA as part of the Primavera exhibition in 2002. It’s a huge 12m x 2.4m piece that features girls masturbating over a pastiche of subverted washing powder advertisements, and a central scene of the Pokemon Pikachu participating in a sex orgy with it’s human characters.
    On it’s first exhibition someone came into the IMA and slashed a few paintings with a knife in reaction to the content of the show. The police tried to have the exhibition shut down in response to public complaints and the same thing happened in the final weeks when it was displayed at the MCA. Funnily enough it’s now on permanent display in the collection of channel 7 boss Kerry Stokes in Perth, which is kind of ironic because of the concepts we were trying to express in relation to the media.
    We knew the work would be confronting, but didn’t really expect the police to be involved. I don’t think it takes much to create hysteria in controlled environments these days. .

    Can you explain the how the ideas for your artwork come together? You explore a lot of different themes so how do you tie them all in?

    I spend a lot of time initially sourcing imagery from a variety of places, which I find to be the most satisfying part of the process. It’s kind of like the feeling you get op-shopping or digging through half-price bargain bins. Like if you find a chair that nobody wants anymore, and you can imagine all it needing is a new cover and some paint on the legs. In the same way, when I see say Snow White kissing a sparrow, my mind is ticking over as to whether a hand grenade or severed head in place of the sparrow would give the image new life.
    I think thematically, I consciously look for ways of subverting images in a topical context – whether it’s how I’m feeling at a particular time or what’s happening in our local or global environment. Subconsciously however I think artists spend their entire career trying to express perfectly a single idea, but that idea manifests itself in so many different ways. I often revisit the same dynamic, but exchange icons or images or even explore it within different mediums.

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    Collage L. MOLET (2009)
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    Subculture Weekend Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November - Two Wild line
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    SUBCULTURE<br />WEEKEND 13  14 NOVEMBER 2009
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  • Nov 7 2009 8:34 PM

    We are glad to announce the launch of the new Otaku Magazine issue, which has the theme “THE END OF THE WORLD” and encompasses various themes, from Godzilla and Gundam, to otaku survival methods. (more info: otakumag.com)

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    Hey how are you? thanx for the add. u got some great work up!
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    My new work !Cheers Italia
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    Photo L.MOLET //2009
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  • Oct 27 2009 10:51 PM

    Hey! Thanks again for being our friend. Make sure you have a little listen to our album Songs For Abandoned Buildings and our EP Gravity. If you like it, please follow the link on the player to buy it from itunes so we can play a town near you! Don't forget to give us a review on itunes when you buy it :)
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    new pictures
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  • Oct 27 2009 6:41 AM

    Please if your available come out and have some drinks with us,
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  • Oct 27 2009 3:06 AM

    Toy Balloon Tour!

    Brisbane outfit Toy Balloon will release their debut album Toy Division on November 8 through Lofly Records, and to celebrate will perform an east coast launch tour throughout November.

    Formed in 2007, Toy Balloon was originally a fledgling two-piece made up by Nimai Etheridge’s uniquely melodic wall-of-sound guitar and Greg Cooper’s beautiful sequenced electronic compositions. The band have since matured into a four piece featuring Chloe Cooper (Mr Maps) on key boards and Ben Green on drums.

    The album was recorded and mixed at the Lofly Hangar in Brisbane, a DIY performance space that Toy Balloon has been an integral part of creating. Fostering emerging artists and left-of-centre music, the Hangar acts as a performance space, recording studio, and meeting place; and has resulted in a record with a rich, layered sound reminiscent of New Order, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, and LCD Soundsystem.

    Catch Toy Balloon launch Toy Division at a venue near you this Oct/ November.

    TOY BALLOON TOUR DATES:

    Brisbane- Thursday 29 October- The Zoo, Fortitude Valley w/ Moon Jog, Tin Can Radio and Doom Doom.

    Sydney- Wednesday 4 November- ‘Upstarts’ at Spectrum, Darlinghurst w/ Convaire and Black Bear Brown Bear

    Sydney- Thursday 5 November- Oxford Arts Factory, Darlinghurst w/ World Champion and others

    Melbourne- Saturday 7 November- Pony, Melbourne w/ Love Connection and Aoi

    Melbourne- Sunday 8 November- El Joyero, Melbourne

    Toy Division is released November 6 on Lofly Records, with distribution through MGM.