David Blackmore & Michael Hampton / RAGE PEN
RAGE PEN is an interactive Photobook developed from a relational piece of the same name held at Chisenhale Studios 2017/18.
Challenging the fetishisation of consumer culture & art objects RAGE PEN requires users to slit open its interior pages, in the process desercrating its initial form to view a complete narrative.
Originally devised by David Blackmore as a series of shuttered performances at Chisenhale Studios, London E3, in which anonymous members of the public, or ‘ventees’ –after being interviewed by the Artist about the sources of frustration were suited and helmeted– were invited to smash objects which bugged them, i.e. a china tea set or a broken printer, using hand held tools such as a sledge hammer, baseball or hurley Stick.
These violent staged attacks were photographed and filmed live by Blackmore, and the visual material became the basis for RAGE PEN, a photobook, as well as a set of giclée prints. Additional textual material has been provided by Michael Hampton in the form of a critical essay examining the rage room phenomenon, plus an online conversation piece between them both.
Edition of 100
(please note this book has been cut on the head and foot by the artist on a miter saw so imperfections found within this publication are part of the work)
148mm x 210mm
108 pages
Perfect bound
Perforated for-edge and embossed title
Miter saw cut head and foot
Published by Folium, 2024
RAGE PEN is an interactive Photobook developed from a relational piece of the same name held at Chisenhale Studios 2017/18.
Challenging the fetishisation of consumer culture & art objects RAGE PEN requires users to slit open its interior pages, in the process desercrating its initial form to view a complete narrative.
Originally devised by David Blackmore as a series of shuttered performances at Chisenhale Studios, London E3, in which anonymous members of the public, or ‘ventees’ –after being interviewed by the Artist about the sources of frustration were suited and helmeted– were invited to smash objects which bugged them, i.e. a china tea set or a broken printer, using hand held tools such as a sledge hammer, baseball or hurley Stick.
These violent staged attacks were photographed and filmed live by Blackmore, and the visual material became the basis for RAGE PEN, a photobook, as well as a set of giclée prints. Additional textual material has been provided by Michael Hampton in the form of a critical essay examining the rage room phenomenon, plus an online conversation piece between them both.
Edition of 100
(please note this book has been cut on the head and foot by the artist on a miter saw so imperfections found within this publication are part of the work)
148mm x 210mm
108 pages
Perfect bound
Perforated for-edge and embossed title
Miter saw cut head and foot
Published by Folium, 2024
RAGE PEN is an interactive Photobook developed from a relational piece of the same name held at Chisenhale Studios 2017/18.
Challenging the fetishisation of consumer culture & art objects RAGE PEN requires users to slit open its interior pages, in the process desercrating its initial form to view a complete narrative.
Originally devised by David Blackmore as a series of shuttered performances at Chisenhale Studios, London E3, in which anonymous members of the public, or ‘ventees’ –after being interviewed by the Artist about the sources of frustration were suited and helmeted– were invited to smash objects which bugged them, i.e. a china tea set or a broken printer, using hand held tools such as a sledge hammer, baseball or hurley Stick.
These violent staged attacks were photographed and filmed live by Blackmore, and the visual material became the basis for RAGE PEN, a photobook, as well as a set of giclée prints. Additional textual material has been provided by Michael Hampton in the form of a critical essay examining the rage room phenomenon, plus an online conversation piece between them both.
Edition of 100
(please note this book has been cut on the head and foot by the artist on a miter saw so imperfections found within this publication are part of the work)
148mm x 210mm
108 pages
Perfect bound
Perforated for-edge and embossed title
Miter saw cut head and foot
Published by Folium, 2024