Fired Up

Check out the AUT Masters Graduate show...Woop di doooo

Some of the Visual Arts was quite interesting, paticularly Linda Roche's dotty pigment painting that resides in Gallery 1.

I also quite liked Becca Wood's eye mattress installation, which freaked the hell out of both Alan and me. I can see why she suggests that there only be one person viewing at a time, as to really hit home that strange feeling you get like you're somehow being watched...there was after all a camera attached to the ceiling supposedly filming you as you dared put your face closer to the stabby mc stab stabbed (and filthy) mattress to watch the film... so very exciting.

Other stuff, not so much. I remarked on the level of presentation of some work as being amateur (think printsprint spiral bound thesis'). Being a graphic design MASTER should they not have some sort of other imaginative/innovative way of presenting a year's work (or two years?) in something other than the acid free A4 paper that comes straight from the Konica? Have they not been shown other possibilities? We saw plenty of great examples of book work presentation at the Elam show. So very disappointed to not have been able to experience that level here.

Perhaps the show would have been more exciting on opening night (you know, with the free booze...lots of free booze), especially since a few people had already de-installed by the time i got there, which was only the next day...

What???? How blastedly annoying!! The show has been advertised as being on until the end of the weekend!! Why de-install?? Are you so ashamed of your work you do not want anyone to see it?? Note my use of double punctuation!!

It musn't have been all that satisfying either to have only had your work up for a few hours for the few people on the night to see. It almost suggests a lack of respect towards the show and everyone else in it.

I am very angry.

What's the point of a graduate show that's only good on the night it opens? Did not expect it to be such an ephemeral exhibition, fleeting and momentary, I missed the magic. If there was any to begin with that is.

- Agnes

p.s. Keep in mind, this is the university I attend, therefore, I did expect so much more from it and am now ranting and raging because keeping such rant and rage inside is not good for the soul. Or so I'm told.