James Broughton

A precursor to the Beat poets, an early bard of the Radical Faeries. “The Pleasure Garden”.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00628-2004ongoing-S-MonumentToDepression-01
  • Title
  • Monument to Depression (installation)
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Perfume bottles and paraphernalia
  • Object Location
  • Physical
  • Technical Notes

Location: Formerly known as Witte de With, Rotterdam in the exhibit of AA Bronson ‘The Temptation of AA Bronson’ // performance, specifically, entitled ‘It’s Still Materialistic, Even If It’s Liquid (From Me To You)’. Duration of performance: 3 hours. Link: https://player.vimeo.com

  • Reflection Notes

“Sculpture of bought and gifted perfume paraphernalia in a Fluxus Art style. Type of work for some of these images is simply ‘Performance with sculpture and audience’. Materials: bought and gifted perfume paraphernalia… collected perfume materials… books and ephemera related to perfume. Dimensions: 500 bottles big, and countless miniature perfumes and samples… it can be installed partially or as one piece and has no fixed form… so the dimensions are variable… over the years I have used parts of it in installations and smaller performances. Link to inventory: https://www.fragrantica.com/me...” – SMW.

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Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 00163-2009-PSP-BigPumpkinSeries-062
  • Title
  • Big Pumpkin Series
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Live action
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.

  • Reflection Notes

“I guess I found it ironic to hold up that shovel, because it's something I would hardly ever use in real life, and it felt like James Broughton being very seventies and Harry Hay and the Radical Faeries being out there naked in nature (I have to be aware of males before me who tried this format like NYC artist Sean Landers in the 90s, I think his series was even called ‘Naked in Nature’ but for him it seemed much more a confrontation and not a melting in).” – SMW.

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