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egadfly

Dodgeful arter

Mar 21, 2011 20:01

I have a confession to make. I don't like art galleries. I don't like putting a box around some things and calling them art. "Art" (or indeed "stuff") is more delightful when it's encountered by surprise. Provided, of course, that you notice it. Maybe galleries are so that people don't have to pay attention all the time in case they encounter ( Read more... )

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veratiny March 22 2011, 01:47:34 UTC

I am selfish when it comes to galleries--I want them all to myself. I hate craning my neck to see over the ignorant when enjoying the culture... because I am a snob ( ... )

egadfly March 27 2011, 16:49:19 UTC

I first heard about MONA a few months ago when Neil Gaiman mentioned it on Twitter. Wow. If you're going to have a gallery (or museallerexhibiterience), that's the way to do it. You're lucky to live nearby.

veratiny March 29 2011, 04:01:52 UTC

Neil Gaimen was out here for the yearly sound art festival MONA FOMA in January--he did a reading with live scoring which was really amazing. There was some other totally out there stuff, including: a live rescoring of Metropolis; an adult size jumping castle (with jump suits) and this insane French drum group recreating pulsars.

I have to say it is kind of nice to live in a small city with its very own eccentric millionaire, whose pet love is esoteric and non-mainstream arts. Most of the stuff he puts on is free and because it is a small city you don't have to share the arts treats with gazillions of people.

That being said a lot of people go because it is free and then write whingy letters to the local paper...they just don't get that the whole point is to offend, enlighten and poke the local populace with a stick!

egadfly March 29 2011, 06:27:10 UTC

Ah, but if they got it, it wouldn't be nearly so fun to poke them... or perhaps one would need a different sort of stick :)

trotula_lala March 22 2011, 10:02:22 UTC

I completely missed out on the imagery! (CLEVER imagery ;P)
next time I see blue word, I must conclude it's a link and click on it. Now probably I should punish myself (which I just did).
(on another subject, as a foreigner, guess what I'm always imagining when I see sign 'humped zebra crossing?')

egadfly March 27 2011, 16:56:22 UTC

If your punishment was a public confession, then it has also given birth to reward. Of the many people who didn't see or follow the links, you're the only one who dared (or cared) to admit it. Which means you win :)

As a foreigner you might be imagining a sort of camelzebrabeast? This would be more decent than what the English are imagining. "Hump" being slang for sex.

trotula_lala March 22 2011, 11:39:45 UTC

PS. also, for an artist without a live journal to say to the confused
'see what I just did here?', art galleries and curators' comments come quite handy

egadfly March 27 2011, 16:57:05 UTC

Yes. Point.

jester_nine March 23 2011, 10:43:56 UTC

It is also the ability to hold multiple versions of reality in your head simultaneously. A stack of variants that each return true for a given level of knowledge and perceptual penetration. As an observer of such forms we are always offered the easy out of taking the most obvious version (whatever that may be for us) and accepting that as the one we use. Or we can rummage around a little more deeply and see what there is to find. This is true for many things. The limitation of the viewer is often not in their ability to see the connections but in their lack of interest that they might exist at all ( ... )

V for Venn d'etre egadfly March 27 2011, 17:38:54 UTC

I like that. If art is real when the creator's intention is absent, then the intention to create art will obscure other intentions, perhaps even from oneself. And since the artist does not have sole control over the perception of his intention, the status of "real" art is partially determined by the nature of the one who experiences it.

And, thank you :)