Würstundgritz is a collaborative venture by artists Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan. Together they make work that explores the interrelations between human activity and the natural world.
"Würstundgritz is defined by suggestion, persuasion, whinging and coercion. Together we have been making some cock-eyed props, devices, sculptures, paintings, books and films since a chance meeting at the Goose Fair, Nottingham, England.
"Würstundgritz runs alongside our independent practices like a pet mongrel tugging at the leash."
- Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Canvey Island, 2006
Cartwright & Jordan recently embarked on a trip to Kentucky, to seek out locations recalled in the journals of John James Audubon. In particular that of the phantasmogorical account of the flight, and subsequent slaughter, of the huge flocks of Passenger Pigeons in the woods by the Ohio River, in the fall of 1813.
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan,
Where Is That Vanished Bird?
photomontage, 2007
Würstundgritzmitbrutti: Taxidermy, 2007
The artists have a book published. It's called 'Alien Invaders: a guide to non-native species of the Britisher Isles'. This is the cover:
I have just this very day sent u a small parcel of wonderment. You'll laugh, you'll cry; but you won't never be disappointed no sah. How's your chops coming on with your trumpet, sweetcakes?
Many grave thanks for the Walt Funky Worm Wiggler Whitman. I can't believe I haven't read it before man! Touched. Got some hilarious stuff for you to check out...soon poppa, soon! xx
Moi Poppa J. Cheers 4 the invite to the Book thing. Will try my best to make it. If not I'll be doing a hilarious performance in August some time in the general principality of Manchester. In the meantime, stay brown u manifold jazz beast. xx
The theme of your new book is a good one and I will look out for it in all good bookshops. I also need to lodge a formal complaint: Your book "some mild peril" contained an ommision (is that possible?). I have done a beaker with a boat on the sea with an enormous jellyfish trying to tangle it and on the base it says"peril" in amongst some seaweed. Peril is often found in my work and it is wrong of you not to have found me in time for the book. Jolly bad form.
héhé