'Sleazy Art Meetings' are inventions born out of experiencing a kind of old Boy Network syndrome in the Arts, and being constantly subjected to jargon based text's that have come about via Internet art and traditional art and institutional proxy. I got frustrated with too many imposed manifestos on how people should create their own artwork. I also found all the cheap back biting that many artists and organisations put each other through a bit depressing and unecessary. There are too many groups conforming to the stereotypical role/function of 'Killing thier Fathers'.

So I thought it would be fun to make light of the whole situation and put a cheeky slant on it all and put a smirk back on one's face via creative means. I toured the net and copied various text's used on sex web sites that are usually displayed next to pornographic images. Then I mixed up the sexual text with theoretical ideas on art and philosophy, cyber culture, institutional concepts, plus with some of my own playful and smutty short stories. Hence this new form of writing has occured. Notice that there is not one rude word in the text, this is so that anyone can enjoy them without actually coming across any visceral, feral and literal expletives. Well, most of the time anyway.

I have also realised in creating these works that I have put a lot of my own personality into them, although many of them reflect real characters and real situations in life and on the Internet.

marc garrett