Bedwyr Williams (lecture)

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I have no clue where to start with this blog post, Bedwyr’s art is honestly so weird and indescribably hilarious, and I love it. Before this lecture I didn’t know too much about his work however I have been suggested by multiple people to have a tutorial with him and I never understood why until more recently. He uses such a particular almost sarcastic yet playful way of making art and it seems like he doesn’t really care if some people don’t get it and I love it.

Just as an example of how funny his work can be one of the pieces I liked the most out of what he showed in the lecture is a video of the reflection of an eye and within this eye is a very tall Bedwyr being carried around these tunnels. But I can’t even find the name of this piece anywhere. I’ve been trying to search for a lot of his works as I found it quite hard to keep up with him at one point of the lecture, it was a little bit rushed and for some reason I can hardly find anything on the works I liked the most.

However I found this beautiful weirdness of a performance on YouTube called the return of the dinghy king, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gKCIvJwwQ , your welcome.

Other then his use of humour in his practice, he has such a clever way to show and discuss ideas and even uses art to simply take the mick out of situations. For instance, during this coronavirus pandemic Bedwyr has been posting regular drawings on his Instagram page, where you will see literal bumheads going to caravan sights etc, there pretty incredible.

Interview: Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory talks to ...A large project of his shows a dystopian world, where there are old people sleeping on gym floors for shelter, people having like little houses built around there heads and body as like a form of torture and children daring each other to look inside the little house of rotting face and he created games that he thought people would play. This dystopian world he created is crazy and detailed and using this dark sense of humour he kind of addresses actual concerns and frightening thoughts. In the sense of how Bedwyr uses this kind of quirky dark humour in his practice to convey certain things, I try to address discussion and messages in like a playful manner, allowing an easy space to kind of be opened up for these discussion.

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