Today's lectures were on the same subject but vastly different. Conservation. The first on ceramics, the second - contemporary sculpture. Both were extremely informative; however less than two minutes into the second lecture I wanted to walk out.
Why?
Contemporary artists. Nothing to do with the lecturer.
Why create an object that will never last? According to the lecturer, 'For 9 out of 10 sculptures the concept or idea is more important than the object.'
What the fuck?
Do art schools churn out little philosophers/tactile idiots?
And apparently, 'Lots of artists like to use bin liners.'
Jesus! That's not art you self-righteous prigs!
Someday people will look back on our culture and see that a) we had none and b) we didn't leave a mark. Think about it, our contemporary art will be bio-degraded into bits, all our personal letters, notes and writings will be gone, and thanks to the e-nature and throw-away qualities of life now means we will both damn and save ourselves.
Hooray for a small carbon footprint. Boo for no culture to leave behind for historians of all schools and disciplines to decipher in the future.
It's really presumptuous of us to believe that in 500 years people will still have working technology from now so that our record will exist.
Same goes for art. The selfishness of creating something that won't last yet 'represents' us is beyond belief. Contemporary artists...not a god-damned Michelangelo amongst the lot of them.
Fuck it. I'll make something that will bio-degrade, be extremely health hazardous, utterly ridiculous and it will only have personal meaning for me.
Brilliant. I'm going to be the next Damien Hirst.
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