what a day, non- stop information from 10am til 6pm – now I just need to process it all.
Some things of note; antiquarian avant garde’ believing we can go forward by going back
‘always bother’ Justin Quinell
Catherine Falkner
Monzoni’s shit and Chris Townsends Art and Death
also theory can be fun if you like
do you have an opinion? yes but backing it up and making that argument – work needs to be done on this.
This morning I tried to write something about the gaps between my act of painting paper on the floor with my hair in an attempt to re-enact Janine Antoni’s Loving Care but just got totally stuck whilst trying to find out more about the original work.
Lisa’s opinion is that her work was bourgeois and mine was grunge, both a protest, mine a result of my circumstances, hers hers I’m guessing.
Also later in the day we got into a peer critique and we identified that what you say about your work is as much a part of the work as creating it, and it’s easy to get it wrong.
And I’m floundering in to gazillions of options I am faced with at the moment. I can’t focus, I’m so distracted by so many things:
time
document
paper
power
oppression
body
value
destruction
transformation
authorship and who makes the work
experience
and these things are just so broad – I need a plan. Where do I start?
I think write it all down and cross out the crap.
