wk 10

This week.... more Flash... and an invitation to go see this major exhibition at the MCA. I want everyone to respond to one part of this exhibition in their blog. One artist or group that they feel in some way they are engaged by. I am including this in the 35% online diary assessment. We will also look at your concepts/mockups as I requested last week.












Artist in photo:: choijeonghwa. See Jayme's blog. Tx Jayme. Choi Jeong Hwa's work is I think is motivated by the plastic wonderland within Korean sub-culture of pop markets and consumer artifice- taking on wide range of media from huge video screens, plastic animals, real and fake food, lights and always wiring everywhwere. It seems to reach out from those Seoul chaotic, local open-air markets- kitsch, theatre, the mass produced item, the glitz of the twenty-first century $2 dollar/¥100 shops.

He uses air, rotting food and cheap plastic in a totally provocative, commenting upon a culture of superficial fabrication in S Korea. He also challenges the attempts made by museums to preserve art in a world that is constantly changing and decaying.