Make Art or Die Trying

Stuart Semple is a world-renowned contemporary artist, curator, and activist. His multidisciplinary approach spans painting, printmaking, video, technology, sculpture, happenings, and performances. His works have been exhibited at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts)/UK, Denver Art Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Barbican, the Whitworth, and several other museums and institutions. Stuart has written for The Guardian, VogueSpain, and Art of England magazine, and has presented for the BBC, including the BBC Radio Documentary “Hostile Design,” which was nominated for an ARIA (an “Academy Award” for radio). As a curator, Semple founded GIANT, the UK’s largest artist-run gallery space, where he presents a program of international contemporary art. He received a Happiness Hero medal from the United Nations on their first International Day of Happiness, in recognition of his artwork Happy Clouds, which took place outside Tate Modern. Stuart also founded culturehustle.com, which distributes art materials made in his studio, including his iconic Pinkest Pink and Blackest Black paints, to artists around the globe. Semple has spoken at Southbank Centre, Frieze Art Fair, Dublin Museum, Denver Art Museum, Oxford University, and the Royal College of Art, and he is an ambassador for mental health charity Mind, where he initiated a fund to provide arts therapies throughout England and Wales. He lives in Bournemouth, UK.   Culture Hustle culturehustle.com culturehustleusa.com Instagram and TikTok: @culturehustle Facebook: culturehustle.com Stuart Semple stuartsemple.com Instagram and Twitter: @stuartsemple Facebook: MrStuartSemple YouTube: @StuartSempleArt TikTok: @official_stuart_semple

CONTENTS
Introduction
 
IDEAS: Ideas and concepts, and how to have them.
MOVE IT: Moving things about, especially non-art things.
IT HAPPENS: Things that happen are happenings.
PERFORM: Your life is a performance; performance is art.
STEAL: Stealing is free. Make new things from the spoils.
BAUHAUS: Back to school with the Bauhaus.
ACTIVIST: You are an activist, so change stuff, please.
COLLABORATE: Form a crew, collaborate to punch hard.
COLOUR: Colour is wild, but its history is wilder.
GENERATE IT: Machines, processes, and systems make art too.
SITUATIONS: Situations can change behaviour in brilliant ways.
FLUX: In flux, we purge the world of dead art.
 
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Resources
Index