Rory performance piece, accessible to audience outside of the gallery space, passersby, non- art folk! Audience= NOT exclusively art folk. General public.
ART FOLK= Artists, their husbands and wives, Art tutors, Art Students, ex art students, males and females who work in galleries and museums.
It was good to see this performance, and how live art can be presented and be grand and good and not shoddy like when I try to do things like that.
Although the performance included general public and the community as an audience, (was not limited).- the private view was invitation only (I didn't have one though ...shhhhh) Tom Cookson and Sam Shaw got questioned at the door for their invitations... I didn't notice anyone else that did, I thought this was a bit strange, and didn't really like that. I think the invitation only made it seem exclusive, in a bad way, it limits their audience to only art folk and excludes others. It wasn't accessible. Although it was the private view, and the exhibition was open to the public after, I think that kind of exclusivity discourages people from going to see art. Even though I was there, i felt guilty about it. One good thing was that the invigilator people didn't follow you round breathing down your neck waiting for you to accidentally go into the wrong room with your drink. yaaaay
I didn't really like the layout and way it had been curated maaaybe. Mixing the old with the new, the research and sort of archive style things putting them together with the art. I don't know maybe this makes the art more accessible? but the not being allowed in enles you know someone didnt't really fit with that. I wondered whether this was meant to be somekind of relational aesthetics style affair going on, but i didn't really get it. I thought it made everything a bit harder to read, like was it meant to be art, or information and statistics... or what? Overload of stuff I think.
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