Ooh that was intense…

I am writing this straight after the Thursday session. 17th of October – I was unusually quiet in this session mainly because I was having an epiphany. I have always detested the obsession with ambiguity within Contemporary art. I see it as a capitalist product of making art more suitable to sell. In a conversation in last week’s group about how a member of our breakout groups gallery where he exhibits his work was trying to reframe his bomb clouds into ‘happy little clouds.’

This week in the breakout room, a course member said they only make for themselves they don’t want and are not interested in showing their work to others because they don’t care what others have to say and didn’t ask for an opinion… the ultimate act of artistic resistance…

I’ve included my notes from this week. This is what I am doing in those 3 hours on a Thursday: taking notes and thinking. The doodles are an artistic pause while I scrub my brain to give it space to think.

Shit! I am going to have to change the conclusions to my MA Thesis

“Everyone is waiting for their turn to speak”… a film quote given by C on why she doesn’t want to show her work… Is anyone listening, does it matter?

My Aviation quote….The 6 p’s Piss Poor Preparation leads to Piss Poor Performance but once you are airborne no one can tell you how the flight will go…

Porosity – the quality or degree of having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass

What did I learn this week? – Why uncertainty gives art it’s power

Mx.D.P

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