Malcolm Whittaker

For about ten years now, I have been pushing my luck under the guise of an ‘artist’ producing ‘art’. Increasingly of late, the frame of this guise has somewhat dropped away and my aim is for the ‘things I do as art’ to reintegrate with the processes of everyday life and everyday living. To do this, I have developed an artistic practice of ‘playing-with’ social forms, in a way that maintains a sense of integrity and consistency with that source form, and creates an art/not-art simultaneity within the art project produced. The resultant politics at play between ‘art’ and ‘life’ was a focus within the PhD I recently completed at the University of Wollongong. My practice-based PhD involved researching through my project ‘Ignoramus Anonymous’, which took the form of support group meetings for ignorance.