A dying skill in the age of computers
Its hard to be an art critic, artists are trying to say all sorts of things but are ultimately at the mercy of their patrons. So regardless of the interpretation the artist places on the work, the patron may have a different interpretation in mind they wish to display.
When I first saw this exhibit I was thinking ‘strange fruit’, only white and not black.
I’m sure Robert Doyle would like to hang a lot of the Occupy Melbourne protesters and detractors in general. The title ‘Urban Cocoon’ said to me Doyle wants to be insulated from reality in his urban space and simply ignore the real problems of the world. The final thought I had was of Doyle attempting to create some kind of ‘virtual ejaculation’ all over the city square tree, to in some way mark or claim it as his own.
Art wank disguised as art wank? OK I’ll take my beret off now.
Ultimately as art its successful, it made me think; but I’m not sure if I liked the message.
Yesterday the Free Shop was invited to be part of an art installation by Natasha Gulino as part of a Monash University student art exhibition called “Honey is flowing in all directions”.
Free beer was also flowing.
The Free Shop will pop up today at the Colour Parade in the CBD. It will be at the bottom of Carlton Gardens and open between 3pm and 6pm.
The Colour Parade is set to unleash creativity upon the streets of the Melbourne CBD and invites you to join in! The performance-piece-meets-parade is open to each and every fun-loving individual is all about celebrating spontaneity and imagination. Get together your most creative, quirky and colourful costume and party in randomly selected locations, play games and dance! You have until the end of March to perfect your costume and can check out the website for some inspiration.
The strange swirling pattern is from the scratched in graffiti on the glass of the train carriage, multiple layers of graffiti (and protective services fail).
We don’t condone graffiti tagging or illegal bill posting, but we don’t denounce it either. Some might even consider it free speech or political communication.
Mar 30
This gallery contains 17 photos.
There were so many photos taken yesterday at the Free Shop, as it was a bumper day . The crowds were enormous thanks to the Comedy festival in celebration of our Lord’s crucifiction. Clearly our society has lost it’s way completely, but at least I ate some fish for dinner. Anyway, it was great fun, […]
Following Robert Doyle’s offer to investigate himself, we decided to investigate ourselves and decided to award our selves the Noble Prize.
Go us!
We’d like to thank ‘Mock and Awe’ for their involvement in this accolade.
Puppet masters agree, once the puppet has appeared to have failed, replace with a new puppet and continue the show.
Puppet Ted in action.
But what happens to old puppets? They just become secondary figures in other shows. Puppets are always for sale.
Is anonymous launching its own investigation into edit gate?
Details are sketchy at this stage, what is anonymous planning?
Did you really think you were going to get away with it?
