Hazard 2012 accepted “Moving goalposts” proposal,
Experimentica 2012 rejected proposal (see below).
It’s been a week now since UCLan 2012 Degree Show. Waiting in the new atrium, the building has just been cladded, like the rest of “UCLad”, someone commented that the show seemed very tired. I didn’t quite understand so they explained, not the work so much as the whole. Tired, as in, the students were tired, exhausted.
An observation – images not quite straight which is, not quite right. So tired they couldn’t be arsed to use a spirit level. Whose call is that? Did the students think Foxtrot Indigo, or the tutors?
Anyway, the best bits were: big dog drawings; drawings of derelict buildings with incremental colour; concrete furniture and all the photos and postcards asking people about art.
The criticism of the best bits: the big dog drawings spoilt by Clinton greeting card platitudes and pinned using push pins, should’ve used rusty nails and a pile of dog shit on the floor would have won me over was my first gut thought but then later amended to just a black bag to look like there could have been dog shit inside (someone makes the effort to carry the bag and clean up but leaves the deposit on the pavement); the artist who drew the derelict buildings had obviously got business cards from vistaprint and the image on front of the card looked like she was an aromatherapist; you couldn’t sit on the concrete setee!
