Second Class.

The second day was a debate class where Narendra put us into groups to discuss different topics after watching the movie, never sorry, of the controversial artist Ai weiwei. The concept of art and an artist was put to question and if it was necessary for an artist to be an activist or not. During the discussions there was a lot of internal conflict in our group as everyone’s notion of who an artist, and how to differ between the both, was really contrasting.

During the debate, the discussion collided between concepts of morality, installations and art itself. Each of the three groups had to construct a sentence which defined the topic of their group discussion perfectly according to the debate. After the debate a lot of new perspectives on how people actually see and consider art flowed through my mind and made me wonder who an artist really was. My answers ranged from philosophical  views about art and artists, the technical aspects of art to soul searching and personal expression to, finally, a vague feeling you get after doing a piece that gets you a kick out of it.

First day

The first day of the installation art course I’m doing was spent searching for a space in the college which could be an installation, big or ant sized, and make something out of it without manipulating any object in the space itself. It could be a story, a piece of writing, a performance or even a movie. In groups of three we set out to find a space. While doing this we kept options of choices which mostly included windows or the outer covering of the building which was a kind of reflective glass. 

In the end we decided to make a vague story on the space we selected which was a wall with a sign of ‘men’s toilet’ on it and a switchboard with faulty switches. The short story took some time to as it was a hard task to come up with a story on a wall with minimal design and chipped paint on it.