It turns out that I still haven’t shaken the cold thing I had a couple of weeks ago, so I have been wrapped up taking it a bit easy. Today is posting loads of things (the joy and pain of selling books off my website), starting on tax return (last years) and sorting out receipts for this year so far. Also putting a presentation together for Thursday’s lecture.
I watched School of Saatchi again last night and I was a bit bored to be honest. It’s partly the overfamiliar dramatising editing tchniques from reality TV: “anyone of them could be a DISASTER” surprise, Charles really likes most of them. But it is also because I don’t think making stuff necessarily makes good TV. It is incredibly easy to pick apart an artist’s work, especially after an MA with much picking apart, this format just means they are incredibly vulnerable throughout the making process. Because the artist are under pressure and being fairly timid (partly from being put in a very difficult collaborative/commissioning situation too!) they don’t believe in their work in the same way as they usually might, and neither do I.
