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LIGHTHOUSE/DADA SOUTH COMMISSION
nonsense on stilts
Lighthouse joined forces with Disability Arts Agency Dada
South to offer a commission for artists who define themselves
as deaf or disabled.
Submissions were invited from a deaf or disabled artist
or artist group to create a digital artwork or moving image piece
in response to the phrase ‘nonsense on stilts’. The
philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) originated the phrase ‘nonsense
on stilts’ in his quotation:
‘Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and
imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.’
Today the phrase ‘nonsense on stilts’, and less frequently
the original version of ‘nonsense upon stilts’ is occasionally
used in the English press to scorn something, implying that not
only is it wrong, but it is wrong in a pretentious, stilted and
grandiose manner.
The winning artist
Sabine Gruhn presented
‘Nonsense on Stilts -
a video installation' at Lighthouse on Wednesday 25th July
2007.
The video installation formed part of Dada-South’s Go Make! Programme and Lighthouse’s Digital and Moving Image Arts Commissioning Programme.
Gruhn’s photographs predominantly investigate the prosthesis as an object. Maintaining a photographic approach, her inspiring moving image piece focuses on the body which the prosthesis completes.
This commission was funded by:
 
 
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