Disclaimer
the "infinite collage" contains boobs, bums, willies, demons, illuminati and occult symbols, trademark rip-offs and a whole bunch of other satire
In the words of Mat Blackwell:
it's quite clearly an alchemical journey of enlightenment, referencing esoteric and occult practises,
and unifying the cerebral intention of enlightenment with the visceral practise of actual enlightenment...
it's the battle between the intellect and the body... esoteric warfare between two forces who ultimately need to be united...
the skinless mickeymouse armada represent the fleshless intellect; the handpeople and skinless anatomyfolk represent the corporeal...
and there are travellers, pioneers in this world, who seek a path between the dichotomy... it's all very fascinating.
crowley tamed and ridden... is it tweedledum or tweedledee (the foolishness of binary systems!)...
the stars unzipped... the realm of meat... the fork-arrow-armed cupids...
the batwinged illuminati eye... lilith the mother of monsters... the cloned baby on fire - victim or saviour?
- the sphinx of lust... the false dichotomy of yin and yang! ...the beginning is the end...
eternity in one direction, nothingness in the other...
WE ARE WISE BEYOND OUR OWN RECOGNITION.
cut up the present and the THIRD MIND leaks in to our world! BURROUGHS... CROWLEY... SURREALISM... INTERNET... = XTIAN+MAT=X/TIAMAT! 23/93/14/2! AAAIIIEEEEEE!
This is an exquisite corpse game between Australian artists
Mat Blackwell and XTIAN, began in 2009 and continuing until ... 'forever'.
The 'exquisite corpse' is a surrealist game whereby an image
is created by one player, who then passes the end of their piece onto
the next player. Using this as the only clue to P1's image,
P2 then attempts to continue the image. Then back again
Soon an unpredictable image is born, one which may (or may not)
reveal interesting links between the players' minds.
Usually the game has a set number of turns, a theme, or is limited to a sheet of paper.
Our game has no limit -
except for death, blindness, alien abduction (again), etc.
We aim to make our collage infinite, or at least come close to it.
The game began on February, 2009. When will it end?
How long will the final piece be?
At the end of the first year, the image was over 20 metres long...
As of Dec. 2013, the image was over 60m long.
That's twice the length of a blue whale.
As of Feb. 2018, it was 78m long.
How long is that in real life?
XTIAN
is a fine fellow who creates digital and analog collages. His works have been published / exhibited locally and overseas.
He has authored a number of books - some of them - sometimes - have words in them.
He also writes music, makes strange box objects and is aiming to be in charge of the Moon sooner rather than later.
He lives in Melbourne, loves tequila and it's your shout. more: www.gadzooxtian.com
MAT BLACKWELL
is a musician, painter, collagist, philosopher, animator, screenwriter, novelist, and part-time chaos-magician who tends to be more often found under the powernym “A D Machine” (or increasingly frequently, “A Demon Sheen”). As well as currently writing for “Good News Week”, he is a recurring writer for the “Great Comedy Debate” and the Comedy Festival’s “Opening Night Supershow”, and wrote for “The Glass House”, “The Sideshow”, “The Ministry of Truth”, and helped create the tr00 kvlt masterpieces “Forlorn Gaze”, “Hard Rock Jukebox”, “Xorctron and Uglifex Prime”, and “Bruce”. He is also responsible for solo sound projects “HAARK”, “GRIST”, “Forgotten Cairns”, “Feast of Tomb”, and “The Horn”, and group projects “GNAUMGN”, “Merge into Stripes”, “RAKSHASA”, “Space Zombies from the Moon”, “FUCK YOU GOD”, “Pig Slash Rhino”, and “Dead Ants Rainbow”. Is believed to be involved in some capacity with the infamous IWML, although at this stage these rumours can not be substantiated.
more: www.redbubble.com/people/IWML
