Another great day out….down to Hastings to join the QR code walk around the town. Neil and Dan from Zeroh lead the walk – they having been responsible for implementing the project on behalf of Telling Stories.
The QR codes were creative and beautiful – some featuring fabulous videos paralleling the work to be exhibited in TS.
Walking through the town we came upon a past Zeroh project. The Moth Project took stencils and rainwater and created ‘reverse graffiti’ on grimy walls. The results were hauntingly lovely and are still good even two years later.
Ambling along the seafront with the sea and the sun and chatting art stuff with other artists was a joy.
Reporting on a crit I took part in I was saying that I was concerned by the feedback that the work I showed was ‘too emotional.’ This produced some discussion as to why this seems to be the case at the moment. We are not talking sweet or even figurative here – in fact the work in question is monochrome found objects in a vintage box.
It was shown to the crit with an ’emotional’ title attached….maybe the feedback would have been different without it. Today there was some discussion around the patriarchcal overview of a male dominated art scene. The feeling being that clean, clear concepts and work was felt to be correct and anything entering the realms of the poetic or dealing with the personal emotional [unless political or dark] was somehow suspect.
Is this so? Are the majority of arts officers, curators, Arts Council…. male appointments?
