I love the idea of - options are being investigated. sign found in Colchester - and another boarded up space from the Yarmouth visit.
A long weekend with a chance to catch up with some films – Star Trek
into darkness in 3D was loud and fast but/and I found the 3D a distraction with
hyper focused elements sandwiched between the blurred and the out of focus. I'm
beginning to sound like the wonderful Mark Kermode. I spent most of the time
looking at the representation of material within the film - some excellent
fabrics and the protective suit Spock wears is marvellous, Sightseers was
disturbing and wonderfully odd. The lack of empathy and random violence within
places I have visited added to the general unsettling tone. Gojoe - a Samurai
film which explores the idea of pacifism
and Buddhism with a supernatural flavour, and finally managed to catch up with Woman in Black but felt it was dull, obvious and generally made up of horror/supernatural clichés.
A day at Camberwell - mid-year part-time -
discussing work within a group whilst the maker observes the rest of the group
- a sobering experience and not for the faint hearted as your work is discussed
often within a context or framework that you had not considered. The afternoon was a
'finishedness' whole group workshop - attempting to create an equation/diagram
for a finished piece of work - impossible yet the point is the conversations
that lead you to a conclusion. http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/finishedness-2013
The exhibition at Smiths Row in Bury St Edmunds - the Suffolk Showcase has a range of interesting work - worth the time to drop in when you are in the area. http://www.smithsrow.org/index.php/exhibitions/archive_details/suffolk_showcase/
Working at Colchester Institute with post-grad Design and the Book students running a workshop around creating artist's texts. Being in the Minories was fabulous – an old school experience of art education – as a visiting lecturer I had no responsibility or paperwork just art, ideas, thinking and talking. http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/colchester-presentation-2013-22132222 The show downstairs in the exhibition space is most excellent – Keith Albarn – a dizzying experience of pattern, system and structure eventually leading to philosophy – inspirational.
Working at Colchester Institute with post-grad Design and the Book students running a workshop around creating artist's texts. Being in the Minories was fabulous – an old school experience of art education – as a visiting lecturer I had no responsibility or paperwork just art, ideas, thinking and talking. http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/colchester-presentation-2013-22132222 The show downstairs in the exhibition space is most excellent – Keith Albarn – a dizzying experience of pattern, system and structure eventually leading to philosophy – inspirational.
