Mid point review for second year, Tick that off.
What the hell is the role of the artist? What looks like art?
Lisa le Feuvre words keep resonating in my head “art is not easy” could have done some nice pun there with Nottingham and not/nott……. Yeah yeah? As my eyebrows lift up in pure exhaustion, Oh puns aren’t they funny (This is where I put in some nice word like expatiation and write about language)- Score. This idea of anything being easy is a fictitious ambiguity, which I can only find within the movies. (Yes I am singing alien ant farm in my head) Although a favorite thing of mine is only watching half of Moulin rouge or Forest Gump then the end is always jolly, except if you get the wrong half.
I do wonder why is this wrong so funny? The Mac Daddy himself John Baldessari just spells out the expectations of wrong in his WRONG photos but also questions what looks like art? If I wanted to bring up this ‘wrong’ and humor created by this Bas Jan Alder’s has a peculiar relationship with the comic and tragedy where this wrong becomes a failure. Bas Jan Alder almost portrays the myth of what an artist sets up to do- become Icarus and fly to close to the sun becoming the tragic hero.
Or maybe I’m romanticising the failure of the artists.
A real failure doesn’t need an excuse- Lisa le Feuvre
