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Throats
and
The Slot Machine

Dreamed by Jim Shaw between 1987 & Jan. 1995.

1: A steaming funhouse where adults pretended to feed babies into giant throats that contained turkeys.
A man slips a baby into a huge throat inset in a wall. Dream sketch by Jim Shaw.
2: I was telling Dave Hickey there ought to be a slot machine that wrote critical theory phrases, but then I realized it was too similar to Mark Tansey's wheel to actually execute.
A slot machine generates postmodern art-criticism phrases. Dream sketch by Jim Shaw.

EDITOR'S NOTE

This is typical of Jim Shaw's dream art--surreal images, laconic, matter-of-fact text; a working artist, he rarely reacts to the circus around him; he just looks for useful material.

Oh--despite his dismissal of a art-jargon slot machine as too derivative to really build, it's worth noting that some years later, two scientists skeptical that postmodern criticism meant anything at all programmed a generator of random postmodern-sounding phrases that wrote a scholarly nonsense article they submitted to a major postmodern critical journal--and got it accepted. Enough said!

--Chris Wayan

SOURCE: Dreams by Jim Shaw, Smart Art Press, Jan. 1995. Dreamed between 1987-95; drawn 1993-95.


LISTS AND LINKS:
1: THROATS: babies - birds - mouths & throats - You Are Lunch - Wayan walks down The Tiger's Throat - another orofice emerges from a wall: Corner Torso
2: SLOT MACHINE: weird dream machines - truth & lies - humor - surrealism - language - artists & the arts - pencil dream art - more Jim Shaw

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