…explores vacation culture at the crossroads of capitalism and the future of human consciousness. Travel and tourism is one of the world's largest industries. It "surpasses that of oil exports, food products or automobiles," according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
In seeking to understand the deeper meaning of vacation culture, Club Paradise considers certain existing fictions and fantasies about vacation.
Club Paradise is set in the vacation destination, Cape Cod and islands, where Wampanoag peoples lived in paradise 7,000 years before Europeans arrived. The vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. Only now the game pursued is a state of mind, a workers’ consciousness, tolerant of capitalist slavery.
These works examine the colonization of vacation areas, worker migration, pervasive control of workers' minds, the selling of nostalgia, the marketing of adventure absent in workers controlled lives and the use of memory to control capitalism. The vacation industry can be viewed as a means of dividing the empires' peoples, hastening environmental damage, the extinction of species, the growth of refugees, migrants, and terrorism.
Influenced by her own work in graphic design, perception and the service industry Chapman, in collaboration with Jeff Crouch, reveals the function of text and image inherent in vacation advertising. They rearrange vacation narrative and question social and marketing propaganda in moving and still image, mail collaboration and essay. The works become fable and myth, mixed with signs and propaganda.
Nomadic shamanic ritual is proposed in the redemption of hedonistic down time, a time to dream, to consider consciousness, awareness, and reconnect to the rhythm of nature and the vacationer's relation to earth.
…Club Paradise is always here. With Jeff Crouch. …an ad for Club Paradise in production....
DRONE DRAMA: MUSIC FOR THE DEAD: eleven chapter video with Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt
2019
Race the Sun from Club Paradise https://compostxt.blogspot.com/2019/03/new-videos-from-cecelia-chapman.html
Moon On Fire Meditation from Club Paradise 2019, https://www.redfez.net/video/night-moon-on-fire-meditation-131
Moving Poems page http://movingpoems.com/poet/cecelia-chapman/
2018
Done Drama: Music for the Dead, Chapter 10, 2016 with Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Loophole Berlin, Germany 17/10
Dear Robot 2018 with Jeff Crouch, Diana Magallon, http://movingpoems.com/2018/08/dear-robot-2018-by-cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch/ and
http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/07/cecelia-chapman-dear-robot.html
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead, Chapter 10, Primal Uproar III, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, Germany 6/29
Send Love: time flows backwards here 2018 with Rafael Gonzalez, video, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2018/07/send-love-time-flows-backwards-here.htmland https://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/08/cecelia-chapman-send-love-time-flows.html
Asemic VideoBook 2017 with Rafael Gonzalez https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-gonzalez-asemic-videobook/
Existential Vacuum 2017, Chapter 1 from I Have Collected All the Writings of the Empire and Burnt Those Which Were of No Use with Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/existential-vacuumand http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/04/cecelia-chapman-chapter-1-existential.html
Knuckleshop 2008 Berlin Mitte Media Festival 04/20
2017
Drone Drama Chapter 9 2016 https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/cecelia-chapman-strange-love-2017/
Orchid Farm 2008 https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/cecelia-chapman-strange-love-2017/
Confidential 0P 2017 https://www.redfez.net/video/mystery-confidential-0p-121
Drone Drama, The Perfect Clue and Message4u @Magmart Video Festival 10
Drone Drama 2016, Traumathek, Cologne, Germany
Knuckleshop 2008 @movingpoems.com/2017/02/knuckleshop-by-cecelia-chapman/
Chapter 8 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/drone-drama-chapter-8
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 all videos and complete https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJWwTkj6j_iiTLtWqxw3oQ/videos
2016
Chapter 1 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 https://www.redfez.net/video/drones-drone-drama-music-for-dead-chapter-1-109-109-109
Chapter 10 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 https://slowforward.me/2016/12/07/cecelia-chapman-drone-drama-music-for-the-dead-chapter-10/
Chapter 3 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 https://dotswaves.wistia.com/medias/ip6ktsa7a6
The Perfect Clue 2016 https://pulpmetalmagazine.com/2016/10/23/the-perfect-clue-by-cecelia-chapman/
Chapter 6 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/drone-drama-music-for-the-dead-chapter-6
2011 - 2014
Message4u video 2015 in Episode 1.2 http://www.dotswaves.com/ or https://vimeo.com/161196300 and http://movingpoems.com/2016/02/message4u-by-cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch/
Fear Don't Knock 2014 in Episode 1.1 http://www.dotswaves.com/ or https://vimeo.com/154334701 and http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2014/05/cecelia-chapman-fear-dont-knock.html -
Devils Teeth 2014 http://pulpmetalmagazine.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/devils-teeth-by-cecelia-chapman/
Auto De Fe 2013 http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/winter13/page1.html
Beachcomber
HELPact 2013 http://compostxt.blogspot.it/2013/05/cecelia-chapman-helpact.html
Mr. Mystik 2013
Ranger Danger 2014
Prior Minus 2013 http://alteredscale.com/gallery-films/
Crossover 2013 in Episode 1.3 http://www.dotswaves.com/ and http://pulpmetalmagazine.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/crossover-by-cecelia-chapman/
Recuerdo 2013 https://www.redfez.net/video/memory-recuerdo-84
Side Trip 2011 http://www.redfez.net/video/29
SOS 2012 http://movingpoems.com/2012/07/office-of-desire-and-helicopter-opera-by-jeff-crouch/
Loco 2011 http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/11/cecelia-chapman-loco.html
NightFlight 2011 http://pulpmetalmagazine.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/nightflight-by-cecelia-chapman/
Jeff's Trip http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/11/cecelia-chapman-jeffs-trip.html
Uncertainty 2011 http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/11/cecelia-chapman-uncertainty.html
Celestial Mechanics 2011 http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/10/cecelia-chapman-celestial-mechanics.html
Silent Witness was @RedFez
Badlands 2012
Badlands http://cormac-mccarthys-dead-typewriter.blogspot.com/2012/08/badlands.html
Eclipse Landing http://www.unlikelystories.org/12/chapman0312.shtml
Highway 1 http://pulpmetalmagazine.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/highway-1-road-of-dreams-blood-alley-devils-slide-by-cecelia-chapman/
Sunset Noir http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2012/02/cecelia-chapman-nine-photograph.html
Orpheus Gun http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2012/03/cecelia-chapman-orpheus-gun.html
Wrangler http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2012/06/cecelia-chapman-wrangler.html
El Dorado http://redlightbulbs.net/issue10/chapman.html
Elemental 2011
Igneous &Prometheus
Lucifer's Wings http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/07/cecelia-chapman-lucifers-wings.html
The Moon2 (is the mirror of your dreams)
Arachne's Bed
Sea Fever http://www.redfez.net/video/17
Passage &Drift
Pool
Thin Ice
Water3
Water1
Wind
Chasing Rainbows
The Moon (is the mirror of your dreams)
Surreal Suspicion 2011
Clandestine
Dejavu http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/10/cecelia-chapman-dejavu.html
Visceral
Changing Room(only) http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/07/cecelia-chapman-changing-roomonly.html
Serial Asemik
Danger Archive 2011
Pre-Dawn http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2011/04/cecilia-chapman-jeff-crouch.html
Danger Rocks
Let Me Sleep in Your Crystal Kitchen
Dark Waters
The Sea Has No Memory
Cult House
Confusion Arising
Strange, Dark &Wicked 2010
Eat The Night http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/page13.html and was at compostxt,
Luna Tree was at Litchaos
Psycho Pomp http://redlightbulbs.net/issue1/ceceliachapman.html
Little Box @compostxt
Meet The Bluffs http://referentialmagazine.com/contents/video/meet-the-bluffs/
Whispers Of A Dying Sun http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2010/12/cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch-whispers-of.html
7Powers Of Wrath http://www.redfez.net/video/13
Service Charge Included http://www.unlikelystories.org/11/chapman0211.shtml
Rough 'n Tuf CartoonVideo 2009
Tropic of Danger
DangerTune http://www.redfez.net/video/4
Violent Rendezvous
Violent Cartoon
Playground Blue https://vimeo.com/51239075
Crouch Trifecta 2009
Paste
Breeze
The Onsker of Xanfroxzit
Trailer #34, 2007-08 film trailer
Mr. E. 2008
Distant Place
Yellow Notepad Caper
Luna Negra
Playing Jeff
Rogue Con
Knuckleshop Berlin Mitte Media Festival 4/20/2018 andhttp://movingpoems.com/2017/02/knuckleshop-by-cecelia-chapman/
Cybrid Adventures 2008
Here Is Where?
Time Is The Fabric Holding Space Together
Mystery Shopper
Faster than A Black Hole
CatNap 2008
Dhaodog
WolfMoon
Entre Ciel et Terre
ShadowMaster 2008
Sideshow Kids http://www.wheelhousemagazine.com/film_video/sideshow_kids.html
ShadowMaster trailer
We Are Always Saying Goodbye
Spanish Prisoner
Dr. Mysterium
Signs,Wishes &Wonders 2008
Whisperwish https://vimeo.com/26980689
Wonderstrike http://www.wildviolet.net/world_voyage/wonderstrike.html
Once
Once Upon A Sign
The Wicked Witch Gets Her Wish
Love, War &Chaos 2008
BattleClass
Circus Chaos http://litchaos.blogspot.com/2008/05/circus-chaos-by-cecilia-chapman-and.html
Orchid Farm http://www.wildviolet.net/world_voyage/orchid_farm.html
SideShow
Night, Sleep &Dream 2008
Night Trip
Dream Dance
Sleep Lab
34 Fate 2007 - 2008
Hoodoo Jinx Spell
Fat Chance
Trouble
The Shaman Is Out 2007
I Want To Fly
DogMystic
Mr. Lucky (two versions)
6 Solo 2006 - 2007
New York Times
Maybe
Day2 Waiting4U
First Night (of the fool moon)
BlackList
On The Run
Mail collaboration with Rafael Gonzalez, and his music, 2018. Made with mostly still images that documents our mail exchange 2014-2018.
with Jeff Crouch, from Club Paradise 2019
With Jeff Crouch, https://www.redfez.net/video/night-moon-on-fire-meditation-131
With Jeff Crouch, Diana Magallon, http://movingpoems.com/2018/08/dear-robot-2018-by-cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch/ and
http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/07/cecelia-chapman-dear-robot.html
With American composer Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt. An eleven chapter video based on his album and filmed on San Francisco Peninsula 2016-2017.
Using Marquardt's chapter titles to address the social contradictions in a drone society: income disparity, environmental catastrophe, epic cultural upheaval.
Despite California’s free-wheeling, rebellious US government attitude, the state is the world's fifth largest economy supported by aerospace industry, bio-tech systems, military defense contracting corporations. Silicon Valley's highly militarized information corporations grew out of the Vietnam Nam War machine home based on the San Francisco Peninsula. The war machine morphed from the local, world's greatest WWII shipbuilders. This evolved from the wealth of California's San Joaquin Valley which supplies 25% of world's food. Big agriculture business has subsequently moved into the valley, and, having snatched the sea of wild grasses, wild flowers and the land of various peoples, has created more (unreported) crime than anywhere in the US.
Works on Paper, selected works, more coming soon when I expand this page…
Endgame2 2017 reflects on war arts glorified and embedded in human culture. It employs kung fu animal stance titles, camouflage markings, and the ambiguity of asemic writing to consider that the ultimate goal of the military-industrial complex is ambiguity, instability and no end to the game. Ride The Tiger, Green Dragon Drops Water, Hidden Leopard, Snake Creeps Down. 4 drawings on Lanaquarelle paper, watercolor, ink, graphite, personal rubber stamps. 9 x 12 in., 23 x 30.5 cm. http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/cecelia-chapman.html
Blue Souvenir: memory and wampum, vacation and consciousness from Club Paradise 2019. The prints are cyanotypes, made with sunlight. The photographic process, originally called a 'blueprint,' was used by builders for drawing plans.
A souvenir is a memory aide that reminds you of a wonderful experience. In Blue Souvenir, a series of designs remind you that the vacation industry has a blueprint for your consciousness. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/02/cecelia-chapman.html
Posted, with Rafael Gonzalez 2018, experimental mail collaboration and book from Club Paradise https://www.utsanga.it/cahpman-gonzalez-works/
3asemiscapes: when meaning is meaningless, propaganda is meaningless. Asemic writing and drawing and glitch open the door of perception to transform consciousness. Asemic writing, mark-making and drawing are renegade acts, a fuck-off to global corporate-industrial, military-defense, and advertising-media propaganda. They are a revolt against social, thought and image control. Asemic and glitch are soul-food to the starving who wander, mapless and hungry, in the media landscape, pelted by slogans in a terrain without real, truthful or valuable meaning. 3 drawings on Lanaquarelle paper, watercolor 10 x 14 in., 26 x 36 cm. gouache, personal rubber stamps, graphite, ink. https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-works-4/
VideoBook 2017 with Rafael Gonzalez https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-gonzalez-asemic-videobook/
In Ultima Thule: Horizon, Border and Limits2018, we see a murky silhouette of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft with (fantasized) sweeping searchlight and dropped ladder in an imaginary horizon. The space vehicle is scheduled to begin exploration of the Kuiper Belt object, 2014 MU69, recently nicknamed Ultima Thule, on Jan. 1, 2019. NASA says it will be the ‘most primitive world’ ever observed, the farthest visit in history.
These drawings grow from concern about geo-political complexities associated with "borders,” and the heated race to colonize space. Border complications not resolved on earth will affect territories in space. Perhaps the opportunity to dissolve borders is on the horizon? Can we transform our territorial nature and limits of behavior?
6 Digital Prints from Lanaquarelle paper, watercolor 10 x 14 in., 26 x 36 cm. gouache, personal rubber stamps, graphite, ink.
https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-ultima-thule-horizon-border-and-limits-2018/ and >http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/08/cecelia-chapman.html
Strange Love 2017. Is there a more enigmatic species? Humans have been fascinated by them and cultivated them for thousands of years. They orchestrate a dance of sex and death through complex strategies of attraction to ensure survival. Orchids are the earth’s most rapidly evolving species, the largest species of flowering plants, are twice the number of bird species, and four times greater than mammal species. Genetic sequencing shows orchids may have evolved more than 76-84 million years ago. Perhaps they have something to tell us about survival and the balance of life.
Over the years I have drawn and studied orchid markings and pattern. Design is our way of attracting fate. Orchids speak the Asemic language. And they appear in two of my videos.
Orchid Farm 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TkypUuYzw
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016: Chapter 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iXzdIyWrY
6 drawings on Lanaquarelle paper, gouache, watercolor, ink, graphite, personal rubber stamps. 9 x 12 in., 23 x 30.5 cm. https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/cecelia-chapman-strange-love-2017/
Club Assassin 2017 dwells on the fact we are all complicit in organized killing, using the Syrian word ‘assassin’ in the title, and the image of the endangered Syrian national bird. 3 drawings on Arches paper, watercolor, gouache, personal rubber stamps, digital print, graphite. 8.5 x 11 in., 21.5 x 28 cm. the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/cecelia-chapman.html
Stealth2015-2016 examines the war-like nature of our culture. An entire series with photographs of the panels with childrens’ war toys I found while working on Stealth. Birch panel, mineral pigment, acrylic, gesso, house paint, spray paint. Stand, hanging wire. 2014 - 2016. Some sold, originally 4 large, 4 small panels 8 x 12 in., 20 x 30.5 cm., and 24 x 24 in., 61 x 61 cm.
