Month February 2015

Advertising poster for a human zoo in Germany(1928). (Image credit: https://www.popularresistance.org/deep-racism-the-forgotten-history-of-human-zoos/) The Concept. Fusco and Gómez-Peña planned to live in a golden cage for three days, to be displayed as Amerindians from an undiscovered island in the Gulf of Mexico… Continue Reading →

When analysing Marina Abromovic’s – The Artist is Present I began to notice aspects that could be criticised, for instance, her intentions for the work itself. It could be said that her the purposes for her performance were to idealise… Continue Reading →

Kryzystof Wodiczko is a projection artist who works mostly in public space. He believes that architecture and monuments need to have meaning brought back to them in order to remind the public that they were built to represent something. Historic… Continue Reading →

Read Paul Mason’s lively argument about the political, social and cultural problems of mobilising artefacts around the world – in this case, the example of the Elgin marbles loaned to a Russian gallery.   http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/commentisfree/2015/feb/15/way-to-end-row-over-parthenon-marbles-virtual-reality

  Quote from Jeanette Winterson (2015) ‘Jeanette Winterson on the Transforming Power of Art’ . [online. 14/02/2015. Available at  http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/14/jeanette-winterson-transforming-power-art-whitworth The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester reopens this weekend with the message “Fall in love again”. It’s the right message. Creativity in… Continue Reading →