Dissertation is finally over, and im in two minds about what i've achieved. If anything…
It all depends on the expectations i suppose. If the lecturers enjoy reading a paper on me speculating the ideologies of others, with a mish mash of my own, only to end on a rhetoric note with a brief non-conclusion and reiteration of everything i had already covered, then i'm onto a winner.
If they wanted to see a coherent piece with structure of intro, body and conclusion then i can see a big red 'F' flashing all around me.
And in the end it wasn't about 'The White Cube as a Transcendental Place'… it was more about 'The Relationship between Art Display and Audience'. Similar, but not really.
Now it's all about the final major project…oh, and fundraising for our final show.
I'm not overly content with my proposal idea for my final major, it doesn't really gel well with previous projects i've done, but i feel i must run with it as it is based around something i'm currently experiencing. And im all for the 'being true to yourself' rule.
I'd rather not leave university this year, its a haunting thought. I'd much rather experience another 3 years of the freedom this degree has to offer.
I went and indulged in the Yoko Ono exhibition yesterday at the Baltic. What a wonderful lady! It really is annoying how she is in the shadow of The Beatles under the title of the woman responsible for ruining them.
She is a lady who deserves to be in the spotlight in her own right. As an artist. Her work is invigorating, it's just a shame that the exhibition was crawling in idiotic joepublic making judgemental comments on all the public participation pieces. For example, the amount of 'I wish you hadn't ruined The Beatles' on the wish trees was absolutely ridiculous.
If these people had animosity towards Yoko, why were they at her exhibition? And if they're showing an interest in viewing her work, why don't they have enough respect and consideration to refrain from referring to a situation she was once in (and ruining, supposedly!)?
Sickening.
On with the final major research!
