Some images from life drawing.
Was at The Artist as Citizen talk by ResCen hosted by The Wellcome Trust last week. Artist/performer Graeme Miller suggested that the arts are special when something is created that is a world in itself, but at the same time refers to the world outside. At another panel he was invited to talk on, he included a live video feed of the outside street. The idea being the speakers and audience would be reminded of how real time passes, and he hoped this would be reflected in their responses and solutions. When walking out of a London Tube station and finding himself infuriated by the sea of free newspapers, he decided to take action. It resulted in him standing next to the free newspaper distributors, and politely asking passers by not to take a newspaper. That’s brilliant. He often returns and finds it anxiety relieving.
Doreen Massey, a Professor of Geography, suggested that we need a crisis of ideas to sit alongside the world’s financial crisis. She finished by saying her strength in pessimistic times was ‘an inability to stop fighting’.
