#anthony irvine

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Enigmatic artist AI teases me about MELT IT! THE FILM OF THE ICEMAN

Anthony Irvine, The Iceman, in Wolverhampton (Photo by Spencer Wakeling) Anyone who read my blog of a month ago (this means you, my loyal readers in Guatemala) will know that Melt It! The Film of the Iceman – the new documentary film about British performance artist The Iceman aka fine artist AIM aka Anthony Irvine – was due to be premiered in Wolverhampton last weekend. It happened but I was…

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The Iceman (Part 2) on laughing and crying audiences and angry ice blocks…

Anthony Irvine outside the National Theatre in London… My previous blog was the first part of a chat with Anthony Irvine AKA performance artist The Iceman AKA the fine artist AIM. The Iceman’s performance art involved melting blocks of ice. AIM’s visual art tends to be about him melting blocks of ice as The Iceman. He was talking to me partly to publicise Melt It! The Film of The Iceman – an…

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Iconic eccentric art act The Iceman - from stage to canvas and now to film...

In this blog, Anthony Irvine AKA performance artist The Iceman AKA the fine artist AIM has cropped up occasionally over the years. So here we are again… His on-stage performance art involved melting blocks of ice. His visual art as AIM tends to be about him melting blocks of ice as The Iceman. That’s all you need to know… This is Part 1 of a chat we had on London’s South Bank recently… Anthony…

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AI (The Iceman)’s memories of the late Tony Green aka Sir Gideon Vein...

My last blog featured a poem by comedian Charmian Hughes which she read at Saturday’s London memorial gig to celebrate the life of late performer Tony Green aka Sir Gideon Vein. Also at the gig was legendary uncategorisable performance artist Anthony Irvine aka The Iceman, who has now turned into a fine-art painter calling himself AIM. One of his paintings, featuring Tony Green at Open Heart…

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Is The Iceman’s AIM at his new London exhibition to be better than Van Gogh?

Anthony Irvine used to be a performance artist called The Iceman.  His act was attempting – and failing – to melt a block of ice.  Now he is an artist – a painter-type artist – called AIM who, mostly, creates images of The Iceman attempting – and failing – to melt a block of ice. The last time he appeared in this blog was in September last year when The Iceman made his final appearance, giving a…

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For a second year, The Iceman / AIM's to make an exhibition of himself...

Cult UK performance artist/comedy icon The Iceman aka ‘real’ artist AIM aka Anthony Irvine had an art exhibition for a whole month in Dorset last year. It turned out to be popular – a shock to everyone, as the basis of The Iceman’s act is failure… mainly failing to melt a block of ice using increasingly desperate methods. So unexpectedly popular was last year’s extravaganza in rural Dorset that…

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The Iceman melts himself via AI...

As my blog yesterday mentioned performer/artist The Iceman, I thought I would ask Gencraft AI to create an image of “a man made of ice attempting to melt himself with a flame-thrower”. It seemed like a good idea at the time. This was the result. It’s an interesting idea, but is this an example of Artificial Intelligence taking the piss…? Is Artificial Intelligence taking the piss…?

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Is The Iceman's upcoming movie MELT IT! a documentary or a piece of Art...?

Anthony Irvine aka The Iceman recently had a book Melt It! published about him – crafted by multi-tasker Robert Wringham. I posted a blog about it. Now the book has inspired a forthcoming movie Melt It! The Film of The Iceman. The selling line is: “In the 1980s and 1990s, Anthony Irvine was a comedian and cabaret performer. His act was a little unusual. As the Iceman, he went on stage – to melt…

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