Artist
Name : Judith.W
Nickname : N@THING
Location : Austria
Style : surreal, fantastic, realistic, misanthropic, necrophilia
and anti religious .
Read this interview of Judith.W, an austrian talented artist,and you'll enter to her surreal, fantastic, realistic, misanthropic and anti religious world. "In a short form, I studied four years art in Vienna( Austria) get "nothing" for that degree, no money, no job, no own place… I only express that the most people make me feel that " I am nothing "
We've
heard that you're Giger and Trevor Brown's daughter. Do you approve of
such a wicked filiation? On a more serious note though, can you introduce
yourself and unveil this part of N@thing to us?
What is the procedure for that? H.R. Giger and Trevor Brown are homosexual?
Or create the Biomechanics- baby- alien-robot?
All jokes aside. When I approve this" illegal Birth machine Project",
I would be a copyist of Giger and Brown and their unknown female androgenic
art- slave.
I won't it, but I respect H.R.Giger and T. Brown`s Art, maybe it affected
me in a subliminal form, but now I must find my own style.
What I can say about myself NOW, "I am nothing" to introduce
me is difficult!
In a short form, I studied four years art in Vienna( Austria) get "nothing"
for that degree, no money, no job, no own place…….but I get
debts and a lot aggressions, and at the moment I try to can live as an
( angry) artist………
About my Pseudonym "Nothing" there is no excellent ulterior
motives behind this, I only express that the most people make me feel
that " I am nothing ", about the part N@thing, please send no
mail on this address, my true mail you can read on the end of the interview.
How and
when did you enter the realm of illustration?
Since I can take a pencil in my hands, and had money for drawing- paper.
Women
are omnipresent in your works, either as cybernetic foetuses in Koenigskobra
or as a dark and mystic woman in red shoes. Can we say that your style
derives from NERCO-realism? How would you define your style, the soul
of your work?
I'm a girl and the role of Women in a patriarchal world is very important
for me.
And Female bodies are easy to draw: enough answer??
Ok serious, I think my drawing- style is very dead in a modern computer
world and old, I try to draw realistic and dark who I can get.
You can define it as surreal, fantastic, realistic, misanthropic, necrophilia
and anti religious style.
The topic of the Woman as a beautiful dead body, in the same way the human-evolution,
or the human as mouldable- flesh, and other thematic about the life and
dead plays a big role in my pictures.
About the "SOUL" of my work, I try to give the "man"
to understand that a female body, is more than a" birth machine",
"object of sexuality" or a "slave" in a man's world.
This patriarchal thinking makes the woman ill.
Also I play with my own reality and existence, when I draw parts of myself
in other forms, worlds and situations. I will not play the role of a woman
who loves pain and like babies. I think I am not alone with this meaning.
If I am
not mistaken, the style of your works ranges from the Bio-mechanic to
the Gore, the Dark and NERCO realism. Are you still looking for a well
defined style?
I look for a better bloodier style and a good idea of new subjects and
topics, who more individual, more identity and with more intense dark
emotions.
I don't know how goes my art, more splatter, horror, satanic elements
or gigeresk.
My art is a wake- up call adverse the humanity and the people in my ambience.
An old illness of artist's is that they are thinking they are prophets.
I'm not a prophet, or a prisoner in a utopia futuristic world.
I only see and fell the unrighteousness of the world and against my art
and my life, that's all.
We can
sense your hatred towards capitalism through this picture: the Euros surrounding
this half man, half manufacture being who's shitting. Why Europe? Do you
think that Europe is more involved than the US in screwing up humanity?
I am obviously talking about capitalFuckIsm?
Sorry, you mistake a little, the man is not shitting, but rather he sticks
in a chaff cutter.
This man is the archetype of wrong bad political Systems (against artist,
and freaks,)
The man is transformed and recycled in a new better form.
Capitalism!--------( I have no money, and no life and Capitalism is only
a word without meaning)
I` m really to young for political shit and verbal attacks, politics make
my life hard, destroy my dreams, ideas, wishes the destroy all. And the
old generation don't understand me.
Please don't ask me about my politic, and what my politics are! Or what
I think about Europe and US…..they all lie too much, I don't interest
in it and I watch no TV- News.
I look like Horror films this is better for me, I will not confront me
with the stupid reality of human politics.
The politicians talk a lot and do nothing.
The artist is silent, but does a lot. (That's my meaning)
Politic make an artist stupid and to a lonesome hungry people amongst
abundance and richness.
The thing
that attracted me most in your work is this universe where the purest
innocence sits next to a pitch black, sometimes macabre world. Can you
explain to us the omnipresence of these two extremes ?
Extreme confrontations how the aesthetics of provocative Horror films
as a agent to accent human lapses and failures. This aggressive violate
oppositeness is very fundamental in my pictures. Innocence exposed into
a brutal universe, and the innocence fighting for their live………
The confrontation of two worlds.
"Who can go out as a survivor?"
In part
of your works we have noticed a hybridisation of the metal and the flesh,
do you think that metal is or is gonna be part of the human body?
Steel- teeth's are cool!!! I think metal is too heavy for the human flesh.
Plastic is the significant subject to sealing with flesh.
I mean you must talk with a doctor about this problem!:
The photograph
Reed013 said in a recent interview: "the artist is a lightning conductor
who crystallizes things from his time, to be able to express something
to humanity" What do you think of his statement? Of our time, and
humanity more generally?
Photograph Reed 013- I don't know it. But I see me not as an lightning
conductor: or a cleaner of time who crystallize things…..
Time is different, and some people lives in a modern world and other must
live into garbage. The humanity is always bad, I see no positive things.
You cannot change humanity, the thing what you can do is to flee from
it or make the best with your live or dead.
We can
see on der euro, koenigskobra, and chrism a watchful eye witnessing a
number of scenes. Are you referring to the infamous "Big Brother
is watching you" by Orwell ?
No, I refer to the control of the state. The normal citizen stand the
most of his time under observation and control (subway-cameras, manipulating
by TV, subliminal media and press,…) Prisoner of state, labour slaves
and animals-that's the knowing eye.
But that doesn't matter me, is only a theme of my work and I think not
of my real life.
"Big Brother is watching you" that's real horror, People without
private sphere. But I never watch that. The People get money for this
play I heard, I believe/hope this is their free will to do that.
The world of future is maybe a monitoring system with gladiator games,
what a bad vision!
There's
a word or a phrase in a number of your works, for instance we can read
on hampel: " ziehe und du siehst mich hampeln ". What I understand
from this is a kind of view on the soul. Can you clarify this a little,
and tell us why you use subliminal messages in some of your works lol
?
Programming robots react at the push of a button, or as pulling on a cable.
"Jumping Jack"
A metaphor to conditioning of children in the education system. No view
in the soul, the word soul is not real for me. But you can understand
it what you see in it, and interpret it what you like and think, that's
ok. My pictures works with more messages.
Subliminal! (There are more things in the world, in the landscape, in
your next person as you can see at the first sight, also in my pictures)
Can you tell us about other issues you deal with on your works?
The life, the reality, or the search for life and liberty.
The negative, abnormal- extreme situations, helplessness, violation, humans
in the role of slaughter cattle, or labour rabbits.
A play with human psyche and their nightmares, all dark aspects of life……
All imaginable possibilities and impossibilities of existence. And at
last the horror of my own life…….
Your latest
illustrations are as brilliant as your old ones. Is it a new era you're
entering in the way you create and conceive your universe?
A new era, I don't think so, other material. I believe it's the same in
a new form, when I draw or sit for the computer, I don't think or I'm
not oblivious of that. I don't draw in concepts, cycles or sections. I
draw as it comes all other came later.
On messer7,
you enter a new area: I am obviously talking about mixing photos and drawings.
How do you go about getting such results?
The picture is made by Photoshop it's the leg of a puppet and the flesh
of a chicken. I put it into the scanner, all other I make with the computer
program. No magic tricks, no photo, no drawing, all by scanner….
Is messer7
in line with chrism, hampel and koenigskobra, especially in the presence
of kids although with a more surgical than biomechanics approach, isn't
it ?
The knife is a symbol that opens the dreams of puppets as a surgeon, there
is no biomechanics element, but lot of dead and dismember and a look into
the abnormal, antihuman body……
I'm very interested in the human anatomy. You can create a big shock effect
with the construction of open bloody wide innocence and kids who are not"
happy" or live not in a"happy world".
And I am "very happy" that this images not real, only fiction.
You can make a lot with the emotion of pain. My only hope that this is
not my pain!!
Where
do get your most obscure inspirations from?
Why don't you ask what my anti inspirations or ask me "What destroys
your art?"
And my answer:" stupid people who hate and don't understand artists"
Ok, my inspirations (no obscure, that's all normal for me): music, books,
films, comics, other artists, humans, cities, Lies, serial killers……and
this interview is a very dark inspiration:
I have never got an inspirited kiss from an angel?:
Does music
play an important role in your works (ambiance, inspiration ...)? What
do you listen to?
Live without music is a big mistake!
My ambience go crazy with the music I hear and I don't abide my ambience
without music.
Now I hear Khold, I'm addict by the black, dark scene( BM, DM; EBM, Gothic;
Industrial….) Dark Throne, Burzum, MDB, Cof, Satyricon, Immortal,
Carpathian Forest, Astarte, Morbid Angle, And Ocean, Summoning, Dornenreich,
Abigor, Hollenthon, Khold, ……… "I hear what I feel"
Music is an inspiration, and art is inspiration for music. But sometimes
I listen what I can or must hear.
Who are
the illustrators that affect you most?
No Illustrator`s-Artists inspire and affect me….. I don't look into
fairytales and let me from the illustrations inspire…..
The style
of symbolism( Jean Delville) Vienna arte nouveau( Klimt) Schiele, Munch,
da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt----religious art, artist how was slaves
of the Vatikan and Religion, I can turn over and make it a little blasphemic,…….
Fantasy artists( Royo, Vallejo,….)Surrealismus( Dali) fantastic realism,
vienna actionist, extreme performance artists, Tattoo artists, Comic artists(
Mangas, hellsing, Noir animes....) ………
Can you
tell us something about the Austrian underground culture? I honestly don't
know many artists (painters, photographers, ... etc) from the underground
metal culture, as opposed to the more famous Austrian metal scene with
its big names such as Bestial Warlust, Abigor, Belphegor, Dreams of Sanity,
Pazuzu ... ?
You have internet, you can easy inform you about Austrian underground
scene. And I know you ask the false, I unqualified to describe that Austrian
underground. I can you say what Bands I like-Hollenthon, Abigor, Summoning,
Dornenreich,……….
What do
you think of Arabic metal? And of artwork made in Algeria?
I think metal is worldwide.
But Hot- weather for metal! Why not, growls in Arabic, "Necronomicon"
Metal, is exotic and new for me,Mangas by Algerian artists. I find it
very interesting, and some pictures I like very much.What I can see at
internet, is their artwork very good, respect!!!
To finish
with, can you tell us more about projects in progress?
Now I have not really projects in progress …
Thank
you very much for this remarkable and gruesome interview. Do you want
to add anything?
Thanks, too, for this" gruesome" questions!
And the time to invest in the cooperation. It's my first interview, and
I hope not my last.
I hope also I can give my pictures a better comprehension with my answers
and the people who interest in it; I hope it's enough information.
Yes you can add my mail address for interested Bands and people
truth.nothing@lycos.de
Quotations
at last:
"I sold my laughing to the highest bidder, I don't need it anymore"
"The artist find a way out of the human labyrinth"
"Remember the future….and goodbye"
Interview by +Ben+ Translated in english by mouhafouha