PILE OF PAPER WHERE SHOULD IT GO???

Where oh where should it goooooooooo? What is it about???????????????? not being clever enough to think of good ideas. Not wanting to be evaluated. Is it a comment on art? I think so but it might be a comment on me. how self obsessed. It would not be very good in the hospital because people would have more important issues like dying so would not really care if i cant think of good ideas. In fact nobody really cares about that except me. Which means i'm the only audience oh dear. Maybe it should go on my bedroom floor where i can tread on it and spill coffee on it and then the bugs can go and live in it. Maybe it is a comment on having to have good ideas. Which would maybe be intresting to other people who dont have good ideas but feel like they should. WHere is a place where lots of people feel like they should have good ideas but dont? here probably i mean the art college. Is it just the teachers who expect us to have good ideas? or society or something. Or just art society. Or just myself. And who decides what ideas are good? maybe i should put it in a pile on the floor and then every one can spill whatever they like on it or even set it on fire. Then I could start an insect collony in it. Well what i mean is that it should probably go in the Art college not the hospital.

headphones books and things

In this day and age many folks like to exist in there own private world though walking around with I pods and headphones or sitting on laptops in there rooms. Headphones or books in a gallery create a similar experience because only one person can look at them at once. Unless lots of people are listening to the same recording at once like in a silent disco. Then it’s a weird experience because it’s the opposite way round to usual because when you have them on you are all in the same world and when you take them off your all separate again.

free milk- Art galleries an idiots perspective

In an unusual twist on the customary wine this gallery gave out free milk. It was probably because the theme of the exhibition was WHITE: FOUR ARTISTS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON EXEPT FOR A LACK OF COLOUR. Oh apparently it was an art piece by Alicia Brook Smith who is interested in sociability, giving and receiving. This gallery had a much more DIY feel than the others which was encouraging because it made it seem that getting work in there would actually be possible. When up and coming artist Rachel Sutherland asked them about getting work in there they seemed very exited and gave her a bit of paper. Sometimes it was hard to tell what was art and what wasn’t I went behind a big black curtain because I though there might be a video or something but there were just a load of brooms. The directions to get there were very obscure one of them says ‘bear right here’ and just had a picture of a bush or it might be the sky its hard to tell. Maybe it was deliberate because there wasn’t very much milk to go round.

When I did the cage thing I put up posters around the college asking people to come so it would be watched by a wider audience but hardly anybody turned up that wasnt supossed to be there anyway so it was only watched by the people in the class. It reminds me of that thing Garry was talking about I while ago saying Art is like a zoo because everybody comes and gawps at it. It possibly would be better if I did it In a more public place so a different audiences could see it like a shop window or something or the canteen. If I asked myself who I really did it for I probably would say it was aimed a the studio audience because it was sort of a comment a out how the studio can be quite restrictive because you always feel like your being watched and evaluated and your always worring about whether what your doing is 'good' or not. If I put it in a more public space like a shop window it would be more about how the public view art. If it was in a gallery window it could be viewed as a comment on the whole art gallery experience.

scooters, holidays, autumn

Today I went to Marianne Springhams exhibition at the Design and inovation centre. There wasn't much wine left by the time we got there. It had a much more relaxed atmosphere than the last gallery there was lego and small children and lots of people who had come from the streets. Her work is humourous and unpretentious and quite commercial which is why I think the gallery was set out a bit like a shop. She had left out business cards and postcard (see above) which is a good idea.