just a thought

I researched into Sterns work and found that it could be quite disconnected due to the connection with technology, in my opinion. But then i came across the three mile meal and found it fascinating. I especially enjoyed the concept of not trying to change or alter the community but to try and give us the tools to communicate and recognise our similarities with each other. I think using food is a powerful tool to connect us all because it is a necessity of life and can be so enjoyable. 

“We’re not all the same, but we all share the same curiosity about one another,” she said. “So how do we learn to live with each other, and to communicate, without reducing everything we know about each other to a cultural common denominator?”

The Lack of information booths didnt really give the audience any more information on the event or the purpose of what was happening or even the bridging of communities and individuals, however this was precisely the point. to point out that we dont know enough about each other and therefore how can we judge and be judged. 

an American artist and filmmaker. One of her most famous works of art is called LORNA, which is the first interactive laser artdisk that tells the story of an agoraphobic woman that never leaves her room. Viewers had the option of directing her life into several possible plots and endings and could access information about her past through clicking on objects within the room.

I like the way we get to change and challenge her personal decisions in the interactive piece Lorna. It reminds me of the books like goosebumps when you could decide what ending you wanted for the characters. It makes it playful but without realising that actually this really was someones life.

I went to this exhibition the other day and loved the versatility and use of space. It was so 3D and looked like a great big fabric monster had grown throughout the gallery. I didnt understand the film but did find it funny. My favourite piece however was the irons that moved instinctively and evolved into flowers. 

Errazuiriz works takes the ordinary and puts an obvious twist on it that none of us ever noticed. One of my favourite pieces is the one where he created a looking hole with two eye holes because why would we only have one? Its obvious once its been brought to our attention but if Errazuriz hadn't then the makority of us would have never noticed. 

English artist Simon Patterson is fascinated by the information which orders our lives. His artwork humorously dislocates and subverts sources of information such as maps, diagrams and constellation charts by replacing the names of star constellations with the history of a heavy metal band, for example. 

Simon likes to record things that do not officially exist, did not happen, and cannot be seen. Others who possess this urge generally write fiction. Simon sets out to photograph the impossible and the forbidden: posing the unjustly convicted at the scene of crimes they never committed for “The Innocents,” her breakout show at MoMA PS1 in 2003; capturing the braille edition of Playboy magazine, the CIA’s art collection, and a repository of nuclear waste in “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,” her 2007 one-woman show at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and documenting every prohibited ­curiosity, counterfeit handbag, and drug confiscated from passenger luggage at JFK Airport in the space of five sleepless days and nights for “Contraband,” exhibited at Manhattan’s Lever House in 2010.

‘Transfer’ is an attempt to move the entire art collection of the Manchester Royal Infirmary Hospital to the Castlefield Gallery. Becky noticed that on the top floor of the hospital there were nicer paintings then the bottom floor. This observation made her create this project called transfer, where she took all the paintings to the Castlefield gallery and left the hospital eerily empty. 

Becky looks at how people integrate in society looking at peoples relationships and reactions to the environment through observation.

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