what is the lazarus corporation?
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first, the boring stuff:
the lazarus corporation website is ©1996-2010 the lazarus corporation
all rights reserved
all artwork and text is © the individual artists and writers.
any unattributed artwork or text is © the lazarus corporation.
to use any of the work on this site, please initially seek permission from the lazarus corporation who will forward your request to the individual copyright holder.
occasional and irregular sale of artwork
from time to time the lazarus corporation will offer certain artwork for sale (although we will accept sales enquiries about artwork exhibited on this site at any time) under particular limited availability offers. click the link above for more details.
the lazarus corporation is:
- a collaborative project
- a collective of artists producing work in a variety of media
- an online gallery of art works for sale
- an online exhibition
- an experimental space
- an exquisite aesthetic experience
- a pain in the arse
- a loss of quality drinking time
- a first step towards world domination
- probably the best website you'll find
reportage
what other people have said about the lazarus corporation
"'English mixed-media artist Paul Watson has been combining sex, glue and found objects for several years now. No, not in the bedroom, but in his art studio.' Best sales pitch for a collage series ever?"
"His work is a comment on our time, our future and our past, it's filled with anger, disturbing and violent. Our human existence is questioned, displayed and weighted. How fragile we are, how guilty we are and the suffering even continues into worlds beyond reality. Paul Watson, artist, writer and musician, is dancing in our minds, he plays with our fears and renews our perception."
Hans Frontosa, Art of Love website
"Psychosexual experimental art extremity from the outer edges of the digital superheadfuck highway. Version 4 of The Lazarus Corporation is here. Go check it before your head dissolves."
Reality Asylum (site returning soon, I hope)
Art is fun but I don't really like to talk about it that much. Looking is cool. Experiencing it is cool. But talking about it and getting all philomosophical about it just twists me the wrong way.
So I don't have much to say about what you will find at the Lazarus Corporation's website other than that it makes me go "Oooh!".
DaddyD, ORF on FM4 (Der Österreichische Rundfunk - The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)
"Experimental writing, artwork of various sorts, and articles - the Lazarus Corporation is 'a collaborative project' and 'an experimental space' devoted to sex and paranoia, science and nightmare. Well designed, clever and articulate; and as a matter of fact they take a lively interest in all experimental work, whether it echoes their own preferred style or not."
"Thought provoking and arresting ... a much needed purgative for the banality of contemporary culture."
"A great multi-medium arts collective out of the UK. Even if you do not like it, guaranteed to make you feel something."
"Uhm... I think I'm in love again. [Paul Watson's work is] so brutal and raw and sexy and... wow. Just wow."
an explanation of sorts
"The marriage of reason and nightmare that has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography.
Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century - sex and paranoia. Increasingly, our concepts of past, present and future are being forced to revise themselves. Just as the past, in social and psychological terms, became a casualty of Hiroshima and the nuclear age, so in its turn the future is ceasing to exist, devoured by the all-voracious present.
We have annexed the future into the present, as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us. Options multiply around us, and we live in an almost infantile world where any demand, any possibility, whether for life-styles, travel, sexual roles and identities, can be satisfied instantly.
The balance between fiction and reality has changed significantly in the past decades. Increasingly their roles are reversed. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass-merchandizing, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the pre-empting of any response to experience by the television screen.
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy and the imagination.
These roles, it seems, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside our own heads."
JG Ballard, 1995