The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator -
As an advocate of the Big Mac Aesthetic, I feel that the disjunctive perturbation of this website endangers the devious simplicity of the substructure of critical thinking.
I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned yet that the subaqueous qualities of the Egyptian motifs spatially undermines the exploration of montage elements.
I would agree and add that with regard to the issue of content, the internal dynamic of the biomorphic forms seems very disturbing in light of the inherent overspecificity.
Although I am not a painter, I think that the subaqueous qualities of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix notates the accessibility of the work.
I find this work menacing/playful because of the way the aura of the facture threatens to penetrate the substructure of critical thinking.
Ash Wednesday.
It’s Grover Appreciation Day!
Army of Darkness
Ah. My go to St Valentines Day movie. (actually, my go to anyday movie. God, I love this movie.)
First kiss on film.
The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 actuality, and was one of the first movies ever shown commercially to the public. The film is around 47 seconds long, and depicts a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice from the final scene of the stage musical, The Widow Jones. The film caused a scandalized uproar and occasioned disapproving newspaper editorials and calls for police action in many places where it was shown. One contemporary critic wrote: “The spectacle of the prolonged pasturing on each other’s lips was beastly enough in life size on the stage but magnified to gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.”
The Edison catalogue advertised it thus: “They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.” (via wiki)
I am always complaining about writers block, writers amnesia, and a general creative inertia on my part However, I have noticed that lately I’ve been offering crit and feedback on the work of lots of my much more prolific friends. So maybe I’m not as stuck as I imagine I am.
The thing is, as when I’m putting my own stuff out there, I tend to get The Fear. Whereas when I’m giving my opinion on other’s work, I feel much more confident. How backwards is that?
I guess it’s because opinion is such a transient thing. While people spend ages writing essays on why x is funny, and y makes x funnier, I’m not sure you can ever account fully for what makes you laugh and why. It’s a bit like trying to explain why you like the taste of chocolate, but not the taste of cashews - it’s a very personal thing.
By rights, I’m more of a performer than a writer, and I think somehow that makes this whole game easier. At least when I’m working in front of people I can gauge their reactions and adjust to suit what they think of what I’m doing. For a writer, you need to make choices and stick to them, no matter what anyone else might think or say afterwards.
However, I’ve recently started to put my written stuff out into the ether again. My prose has to stand on it’s own two feet, but there is comfort in knowing that my scripted stuff will be filtered through someone else’s perspective - even if it is just when I change it a bit to suit the audience.
We dissect, discuss and deliberate creative work. The who, what, why and how can become oh so important. But I think in the moment where the artist meets the audience, there is little that can be done to influence the reaction. And even less to influence the end result. 2 people can see the same show, at the same time in the same venue and still not agree on how much they enjoyed, or even understood, what they saw. But that’s OK. That’s what art is. Be it avaunt guard performance, or a skilled stand up at work: every audience member will be affected in a different way. It’s like everyone lives in a sphere of experience, and each one that touches another goes off on it’s own direction.That’s where The Fear comes from, but also The Joy.
And yes. I know how pretentious I sound. So what? I’m hoping my attitude to my writtern work will one day match my atititude to my performance work: you’ve just got to go do it - live the experience, and learn how to let go.
This year get her…an Anteater.
WHAT TIME IS IT??
so excited for this show
GRATUITOUS GONZO
Every month, its the same thing - The Saturday Club rolls around, and I stress to the max about a 2 hour, one off session! Which no one ever turns up to!
Sigh. The problem is, it’s my session - I have to create a new one every month, and this takes time. Time which I always seem to run out of ‘cos I’m running about like a mad thing doing stuff for other things that people ask me to do (or a stupidly volunteer for).
Am I putting too much thought into this? Should I just not bother, sit back, and let what happens happens? It seems like all the effort I put in is ignored anyway. Oh people mention that they appreciate my help, but in the sessions I’m in charge if, my boss doesn’t even look in. I was mocked today for getting a lot of stuff for tomorrows session, and making lots of posters. It was good natured, but to be honest, made me feel like crap. I know this is a one off, but my thinking was maybe if it works it could be developed and we could do it again. I guess since no one even knows what I’m doing, that’s probably not gonna happen. lol
Sigh - pretty much everyone on the lower pay-scale in our office is feeling underappreciated this weather, so I guess I shouldn’t complain. I just resent being given grief about taking half a day for training, when I worked a 7 day week last week, and am giving up my day off this week! The managers treat me like I’m an idiot. I know I’m kinda bouncy in the office, but I’m not stupid. Give me a job and I’ll do it, and do it damn well! Please, just don’t give me grief about stupid stuff which doesn’t actually affect my ability to do my job (FYI - telling me ‘It’s OK as long as you have no sessions’, after I TOLD YOU I had no sessions, and that was the only reason I was asking, is patronising and annoying. Especially since I’ve covered your sessions for you at a moments notice more than once!)
I often feel that a lot of the time, managers are blinded by problems created by higher up managers, in order to meet tables and tallies and quotas, which actually just get in the way of the job getting done in the first place. With museums, people just seem to be more patronising about it.
Ah well.
BURN NOTICE! :)