Feedback about the show
Submitted by Alex Gibson on Mon, 19/03/2007 - 18:53.
Navigation
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Mailing List
Who's online
There are currently 0 users and 71 guests online.
Navigation
Mailing ListWho's onlineThere are currently 0 users and 71 guests online.
|
Feedback about the show
Submitted by Alex Gibson on Mon, 19/03/2007 - 18:53.
|
|||||||||||
Delicious
Digg
StumbleUpon
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
Show feedback & fleeting impressions...
I think that the most interesting thing about the exhibition is if it were looked at as a whole. Rather than inquiring on a work-by-work basis how much this one or that one addressed the central themes of the exhibition – one had to be impressed by the overall impression made by the event. It was this overall, collective impression could probably be considered as the core subject of the exhibition.
Right down to the weird little red LED things stuck to the ceiling by random passers by – the event seemed to be a celebration of what was possible by people creating things in an open collective atmosphere. The results may not always be stunning, or amount to anything that truly transcended the passing moment – but nevertheless, the good humor and enthusiasm that permeated the event stood as a refreshing argument against all the familiar cynicism regarding people acting in/as a group.
Alex Scott
www.growingbrain.com.au
... from anon
i enjoyed your exhibition. in particular i enjoyed the space as an activated whole, with simultaneous activated loci. It resulted in a carnivalesque wwweblike morphstation. Sean's work in the back room was important. it provided a different tenor to the show, a show of many registers ensued, many 'humanities ' existed in the show...play, earnestness, cynicism, ambiguity, all good things.....overall, i think i liked the fact that nothing was really clear in terms of a didactic sensibility, nothing preached, only ideas being offered as interactive potentialities. Olivia's performance worked for me because it was unannounced and insidious, a weird sideshow. I am unsure of the visual simplicity of the drawing program..maybe it needs to be a photographically generated image/movie to compete with the crazy visual party vibe....the opening reminded me of Jean Jacques Lebel, the sleazy eurotrash dada theatre guy who organised Picasso's plays in the sixties. All kinds of crazy shit happening on stage at the same time. No one knows where to look.... chaotic and exciting like the web itself, or at least the best parts of it. Thanks.
yeah
Yeah simultaneous performances, distributed creative acts... an interactive buffet. I am pleased with that response. I wanted the works to have their own life and to synergise. The very essence of the idea of 'polyopticon'. A range of views. Not a didactic singular, authoritative vision or series of competing visions, but a range of distributed horizontal visions. Multidimensional eyes. The Internet is a trope. It doesn't exist. There is only the sense of an un-centered periphery made up of an endless series of nodes/ sites. A plural or multiple pluralities that refuse to be contained. We are the web - but the web is not we... the web does not exist as a whole.
What a great post, was
What a great post, was really interest and very helpful.
canvas print