8. Camilla - Matonge gallery
``What I want you to experience is the ''entering'' and ''exiting'' sensation you get from this space. Once in the gallery just look around and see the different relations and maybe also focus on the tensions you might feel inside.`` note of rares
no pics
``What I want you to experience is the ''entering'' and ''exiting'' sensation you get from this space. Once in the gallery just look around and see the different relations and maybe also focus on the tensions you might feel inside.`` note of rares
no pics
tendency in advancing through the day, the city, stations, propositions, weather shifts, walks:
ReplyDeleteless concentration, more private needs, less space exists. the result is consuming. the act of difference falls apart. the comfort of pseudo normality- a hermetic construction. the physical strength to be aware, to think is missing. falling together. the object of observation has to fit in the "mind". reproduction of thinks which are already known before.
after this: compromising with smallest possible consensus .....
yes no perhaps no oh
no resistance
a quite small space
of personal
end
Because we were asked to become aware of boundaries I felt the crossing over into the gallery more strongly than usual, i became aware of the change in sounds and smells. I know the gallery quite well and there was something quite patronising and voyeuristic about going there to observe, like yet another type of putting visual and artistic clonnialisation, an inspection of the minorities.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean that you feel part of the majority? This is very interesting, because we can't avoid walking into any space from the specific "place" each of us comes from. I didn't feel in a position to be either patronizing or voyeuristic...
ReplyDeleteThe “no pics” note already says a lot about the space. The moment I entered the galleries, even before having a moment for myself, I was attacked by a man asking me if I would like to get my dreads tidied made me feel as absolute tourist, customer, the alien…
ReplyDeleteThen the conversation outside; flowing around colonialisation, transexuality, prstitution, child abuse… and the excludeds of the world unite among our discourses..?..?..