hello, art
...went to the UK/Canadian Video Exchange part 2 last Friday night. i must confess that by the second half of the program, i was feeling mentally spent, as though i had seen as much experimental video art as i needed to for awhile. i did particularly enjoy Le Beau Jacques, a piece about two elderly Quebecois women who are utterly fanatical about Jacques Villeneuve - he's taken on an almost mythic quality for them. it's very entertaining, and funny, but also a comment on how we choose to fill the empty spaces in our lives.
...Monday night, i went to see a compilation of experimental animation shorts chosen by Richard Reeves. many of the works were his own, with other works by members of Calgary's Quickdraw Animation Society. much of Reeves' work takes a synesthetic approach, expressing sound as visuals. in effect, it asks the viewer to hear with their eyes. i was interested and engaged, but i don't feel like i experienced it as viscerally as others did. as i watched, it raised a number of questions for me about art, and how we interact with it. since i am fairly literal minded, maybe some of you who are creators can take a stab at answers - educate this philistine!
...Monday night, i went to see a compilation of experimental animation shorts chosen by Richard Reeves. many of the works were his own, with other works by members of Calgary's Quickdraw Animation Society. much of Reeves' work takes a synesthetic approach, expressing sound as visuals. in effect, it asks the viewer to hear with their eyes. i was interested and engaged, but i don't feel like i experienced it as viscerally as others did. as i watched, it raised a number of questions for me about art, and how we interact with it. since i am fairly literal minded, maybe some of you who are creators can take a stab at answers - educate this philistine!
- how do we know when we are in the presence of art?
- is art relative? can something be art for me, but not for you?
- is art meant to be interpreted, or should it be experienced without trying to fit it into a framework of meaning? or both?
- what is art for? is it wrong to ask that question?
posted by Jack Rational at 9:02 AM
1 Comments:
The answers to your questions:
Yes.
:)
Lately I've found that getting out to see stuff* and reading essays have been keeping me from getting too depressed over the problems with how we structure areas of support for contemporary arts.
*=by stuff, I mean GOOD stuff that doesn't stink of "Official Culture that will Feed Tourists". I mean, I love well-crafted ceramics, tartans, and sea-scape folk art as much as the next person, but we deserve more variety than that, don't we?
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