week three

ohh exciting ! south london gallerys new exhibition focuses around memory!i plan to go when i can .

i did find time this week to go and see the gilbert and george exhibition at the tate modern .
it is a bloody massive exhibtion , fuck me i was there soooo looong and i dint even realsie it but eighteen rooms jees!

i had that fancy i - pody thing the tae gives you if you pay them money , i would not usually bother but i must admit i was quite impressed by the whole thing, i learnt quite alot of things that i wouldnt have realised .. let me enlighten you with some facts before i go on to my project.

1. gilbert and george say they like to always represent men in there work (none of there work hasa women in it) not because they feel men are superier or anything but to re dress the balance in art (somethign the guerilla girls will be pleased about)
as in, in gallerys there are tonnes of pictures subjectifying the female form and they want to re dress this in their won little way .

2. in some pictures there are these odd close ups of whta seem to be at first organic matter ,almost like snow flakes but in fact these are microscopic close ups of sperm and piss .
seriosuly they amke the stuff look beautiful .

3. gilbert and george like gin.alot.

the exhibaition was curated well with a nice cafe plonked in the middle , i was disapointed that alot of their perfromance work and film work was over looked (but thats just coz i like that kind of stuff really ..)i much prefer there earlier work to their more recent stuff , this is for merely aestetic reason , i feel the voice running throughout there work and the themes running through out have remained string and always up to date , gilbert and george may seem like old fuddy duddys in suits but in actual fact i think theyve still got there button well and truly on the pulse . this may be coz they live in the ultra arty east of london obviosuly and the mix of cultures there really seems to inspire them and terrorsim is a strong theme in tehir recent work,, other themes have included aids and my personal fave drinking. a theme of which one day soon i plan to fully explore for my self (dare i say im setting my self a summer project)

any way speaking of projects... this week has been a total disastor.

my sculpture idea os something i planned on running with .

my tutor alexis seemed happy enough but then another tutor came over and totally ripped me to pieces and me , being the only child adolescent that i am didnt take very well to taht and kind of ran away .

im still kind of settled on this whole idea about moving and still .

and ive completed my narrative so im ahppy ina few respects .

im really starting to feel the pressure of time now though witha ll thsi mention of tidying spaces and hanging work and all this stuff.
i do not do wel under pressure really , i get all desperate for 'the right' idea , the perfect idea all this bollocks.

in other news i took more photos , and yes i did develop them my slef but only half a dozen came out! again i was gutted .

i develloped them anyway , i kind of worked on soe things alexis talked about in her little phography adavanced talk , i blurred edges ona few so they looked more like the person or the memory was disappearing , i developed some of the pictures at different times so half the picture is fully well developed and the other is half developed alot more faded etc. im kind of happy with this . hmm .

next week my plans mainly involve panicking.