{"id":400,"date":"2020-09-01T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artstops.org\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2020-09-15T22:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:18:40","slug":"mark-spybey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/mark-spybey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Spybey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/artstops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MARK-S-1web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artstops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MARK-S-1web.jpg 533w, https:\/\/artstops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MARK-S-1web-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>MANIFESTO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Mark Spybey is a musician, of sorts, whose career started in the 1980\u2019s in the north-east before he moved to Vancouver, where he formed Dead Voices on Air and worked with Download. He has collaborated extensively and now lives in his native Yorkshire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-bandcamp  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M15.27 17.289 3 17.289 8.73 6.711 21 6.711 15.27 17.289\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Bandcamp<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>MANIFESTO<br><br>I make art because I think I have to, not because I have to.<br>I have always tried to approach the creation of art with the eyes and ears of a child and I don\u2019t feel compelled to use a formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No concepts<\/strong>. Concepts create triple albums about elves and oceans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not for me. So anything and everything is used to make art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have little sentiment for art, I only have sentiment for people. I mistrust art that relies on mastery of a technical skill. The iPhone is a great leveller, as a \u2018photographer\u2019 it creates a level playing field. Anyone and everyone can use it to create art, as long as you can afford it! I happen to believe that technical mastery create dull art. I do want to communicate through my work, even if the message is unclear, abstract and at best tangential: the beauty is in the way the message is received by others and as Joseph Beuys once said, \u201cone should resort to interpretation only in an emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I seek to explore how I relate to the environment around me. We learn about our world, our reality, ourselves and others by creating. It is a powerful learning tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking pictures from a moving train or a bus created an opportunity to capture the beautiful accident. The photograph either works or it is a mess. That\u2019s how I work as a musician too. I don\u2019t strive to create anything that is perfect. The concept is absurd. It is the prospect of failing or falling a little better that inspires me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANIFESTO Mark Spybey is a musician, of sorts, whose career started in the 1980\u2019s in the north-east before he moved to Vancouver, where he formed Dead Voices on Air and worked with Download. He has collaborated extensively and now lives in his native Yorkshire. MANIFESTO I make art because I think I have to, not &#8230; <a title=\"Mark Spybey\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/mark-spybey\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Spybey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-400","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}