Our journey to Calton Hill is a journey of touch. The hardest part of this journey was deciding what form to take on our journey to the Calton Hills, excluding visual expression. An auditory expression was of course the simplest and easiest to think of, but it seemed a little banal to our group. We […]

In her article, “Derek Jarman’s Blue: Negating the Visual”, Jenna Carine Ashton states “The auditory comes to replace the visual; with Blue there is a sensory tussle as we are forced  to listen.” Reflecting on your own experience of watching Blue, do you agree? Why/why not? Consider this work in relation to González-Torres’ Untitled (A portrait of Ross […]

I’ve commented on four blogs, and here are the links: Sprint 1: Theme Feedback (two week) – Xiaodong Liu / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] Sprint 1 Weird_Reflection – Jing-Ting Huang / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] (ed.ac.uk) Sprint 2: Play – Zekun Yang / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1] (ed.ac.uk) Week4 play： orange – […]

The great trouble with art in this country [the United States] at present, and apparently in France also, is that there is no spirit of revolt— no new ideas appearing among the younger artists. They are following along the paths beaten out by their predecessors, trying to do better what their predecessors have already done. […]

In the sprint play we first received an existing score, our group’s score was called walk and the rules were very simple. We tried this score in the large classroom next to the classroom, and as we had customised our criteria, the scene was somewhat disorganised and chaotic, not like we were playing a score, […]