§ breakingthings: residua
¶ Rob Lycett is an artist and educator who has lived in the Upper Calder Valley for most of his adult life and currently has a studio in Hebden Bridge.
His practice is an ongoing exploration of 'art-machines' (writing, drawing) and their 'residua' (the remains of a process). Many of these 'machines' use fragments of cultural material, gathered over a number of years and held within archives and databases. Chance and order play a significant part in his practice. Decisions are often arbitrary. Repetition is essential. Mistakes are embraced.
His work spans films, books, photographs, motion graphics, drawings, text, typographic objects, digital installations, custom software, sound and live performances. These creative acts are often informed/disrupted by the literary constraints of the Oulipo, the aleatory compositions of John Cage, and Umberto Eco's 'Open Work'.
Everything he does is literally 'an open situation, in movement. A work in progress' (Eco, 1960).
