Conversations with Jeremy Spencer, Art Theorist

Print this post Your last image reminded me of this work -

http://www.georginastarr.com/dining.htm

Thank you for your work today, and I do apologise for the problems with computers etc.

Jeremy



On 11 May 2009, at 20:04, Amy Spurdens wrote:

the blurb/sound that accompanies is quite beautiful.
It is an avenue to re-enact dining alone through audience members experiencing the isolation..still a niche of 'gallery goers'/ladies who lunch!.. Thank you for sending that.

Why did you choose to study art theory?



From: Jeremy Spencer (jeremy_spencer@me.com)
Sent: 11 May 2009 20:13:18
To: Amy Spurdens (amyspurdens@hotmail.co.uk)
I wanted to study here - http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/info/pgcs/maah/index.html - and I was a terrible artist, but I do miss, you know, making stuff. Pleased you like the Starr.

Jeremy




The Starr






DINING ALONE

Sound piece, text & photograph.

An invitation to make a work for a Paris restaurant turned into a lonely and paranoid meal for one for Starr. At a later date diners at the same restaurant are invited into the wine cellar where they can also dine alone by candle-light while listening to Starr's thoughts from her own dining alone experience.

Also while in Paris Starr dines alone on a makeshift table by the Seine, it's a quiet spot where she can be completely alone away from the eyes of other diners.



Exhibition history for Dining Alone:

Restaurant, La Bocca, Paris, 1993

Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2000