I don't get contemporary visual art. I am trying and I am reading but so much goes over my head and so much I find terribly uninteresting. The challenge of taking so many courses in exhibition design is that (so far at least) the entire focus has been on the exhibition of visual culture. Painting, sculpture, new media, shit I do not understand and artists I have never heard of.
I wrote my first paper comparing two exhibits: Houdini: Art and Magic and Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen. Both interesting and both flawed.
I wrote in terms of theatricality. Theatricality I understand. Talk to me about modernism vs post-modernism vs contemporary and you are going to send me flying to google for clarity. But explore something within social constructs I understand, specificity, clarity of intention, pandering to an audience vs remaining obtuse because of some misguided notion of cultural elitism and I will give you my option. Loudly.
I am just not sure how these visual arts administration students feel about my coloring (or critiquing) outside the lines.
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