The world and inspiration of 'Creep'
7 videos • 1 views • by Olympia Creep brims with the bold paint-strokes of feeling when you become completely overcome by the attention of another. (‘A fine narcotic, having people in love with me’ Anne Sexton). This track is the most accessible of Olympia’s new work; it’s open-hearted, tongue-down-glass and imbued with the humour (or delusion) of someone imagining themselves navigating champagne towers while drinking ice-less Moscow Mules by the (plastic) jugful. ‘Every song is a love letter’, Creep hums with desire and the urge to devour without guilt or consequence, Creep is a playful flip on traditional narratives and assumed boundaries of gender, the self and the ‘other’, and very much written in the dust of artists such as Tracey Emin, Chris Kraus & Hannah Wilke. In addition to a film clip containing clips from cult sexploitation director, Doris Wishman, Olympia is supporting this release with a series of photographs titled ‘I wrote it down somewhere’. These photographs feature quotes by other artists with Olympia smudging or dragging wet paint across them. Shot from below the quotes resemble both a mirror to the song and window to the world looking through the lens of a quote such as: ‘If women have failed to make “universal” art because we're trapped within the “personal,” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?’ Chris Kraus. They also draw on sources including poets, The Pattern app and social media commentary – further bringing us into Olympia’s creative process. The archival nature of this work echoing the hundreds of emails and faxes Chris Kraus wrote to Dick (in I love Dick) – who, let’s be honest, was such a Dick.