This article was interesting, although it didn't really tell me much or make me think differently about alternative spaces. I've always found the idea of apartment and house gallery shows as sort of tacky and unappealing? It's just how I feel personally, I really don't like going over to a complete strangers house, to me its a weird invasion of privacy, and I always feel really uncomfortable. I also feel that if the space hasn't been significantly altered to allow art to be shown (for example moving furniture aside, setting up really good lighting and viewing spaces, making it not look like someone overpriced rundown apartment) then the actual space is distracting and almost more interesting than the art works that might be shown there.
I can clearly see how alternate spaces are a great way for artist communities to grow in an area though. There is great value in them for artists who don't have the professional connections or resources yet to get into official galleries.
Showing posts with label Reading Response. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
Varrassi_Reading Response
I'm not sure if this is the proper way you want us to do this, but since there aren't any other posts on this blog from anyone one else in the class yet, I'm just going to wing it.
So, I read the Dave Hickey reading, and his whole allegory with cars and art was interesting, I guess, but it didn't really click with me, or, to reference his own words, give me that "Huh? Wow!" moment. I think that's just because I don't really get much out of intellectual art discussions, I am easily confused by academic types of writings, especially when it seems the author had too much fun with the thesaurus, so a lot of what was said gets blurred in my head.
That last paragraph though was a zinger, wow, Hickey was really salty with that. I'm not really sure I understand what he was trying to say with the car/art allegory, like I can understand that the two types of productions have a lot of overlap and that's really interesting, but I don't see the big picture behind pointing out this correlation, so I'm wondering if maybe after a class discussion where I can listen to what everyone else thinks I might get a better understanding of Hickey's implications.
So, I read the Dave Hickey reading, and his whole allegory with cars and art was interesting, I guess, but it didn't really click with me, or, to reference his own words, give me that "Huh? Wow!" moment. I think that's just because I don't really get much out of intellectual art discussions, I am easily confused by academic types of writings, especially when it seems the author had too much fun with the thesaurus, so a lot of what was said gets blurred in my head.
That last paragraph though was a zinger, wow, Hickey was really salty with that. I'm not really sure I understand what he was trying to say with the car/art allegory, like I can understand that the two types of productions have a lot of overlap and that's really interesting, but I don't see the big picture behind pointing out this correlation, so I'm wondering if maybe after a class discussion where I can listen to what everyone else thinks I might get a better understanding of Hickey's implications.
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