the fourth plinth project went live today. sitting at home watching the live stream i feel very small and insignificant. i look forward to how the sitting watching the stream experience pans out.
in other news. a friend from the degree course has won a university bursary for studio rent. he doesn’t have the couple of hundred pound needed for admin costs to get the bursary.
i’ve been contacted by a gallery in nottingham, they’d like to know if i am interested in being in an emerging artist show. it’ll cost me 60 pounds and the show will be on for a week. i’m a professional artist, should i be paying for my work to be shown? i think not, it’s like paying for an entry on my cv.
i think, i am faced with a long hard struggle, as i am not good at making things to be immediately liked. i’ll test my theory by attempting a proposal to a local hospital for images to go on a wall somewhere in the hospital.
getting briefly back to the plinth, at lunchtime on radio 4 was the chap from the ica. he was looking forward to when the first person got naked on the plinth. i was a bit dismayed at this.
18.21, a person in the crowd asks the man on the plinth “how is it art?” is this a question facing all undergraduate fine art students come september? certainly the man on the plinth was stumped to answer the question. a duchampian response of ‘it’s art coz i say it is’ mite have be good. i don’t understand why art gets such a hard time, certainly a friend of mine who works not in the arts sector has the 70’s bricks very much engrained in her mind as a nonsense piece of work and all art is nonsense if it’s not a painting or a sculpture. are we all living at a time where art needs some support and help? i think so as i would like to be able to be myself and make art that has good reason to exist and not worry where the money for the bills or food comes from, why is that such a difficult concept? maybe i should ask an ecomonist that question to get their take on it, maybe then i’ll be a little more informed.
