Some stuff needs contextualising to get it’s meaning, or implied meaning, or point of view. Knowing it was made in a certain place/time, or by a certain means, or as a result of something, or in answer to something, gives the work it’s meaning. Without that information, it’s just a thing.
An unmade bed, wether in a grotty flat or an art gallery, is still just an unmade bed. Anything else is just superfluous art world waffle and flim-flam. If you want to believe it’s ‘art’, then that’s up to you. But be prepared for people to laugh at you for being sucked in to the ‘X-Factor’ style ‘Cool Britania’ guph.
I really can’t comprehend how that talentless charlatan has the audacity to refer to himself as an artist? To me he is the physical representation of the utter shallow vacuousness of the whole Blair era Cool Brittania bollocks
Amen. For a northerner, Binners, you’re really quite sophisticated… 😉
What really gets my goat, is that there are many genuinely talented artiosts out there, who get overlooked because shysters like Emin and Hirst ‘create’ stuff their meeja sycophants label as ‘cool’. This then has the effect of discouraging younger artists from actually learning how to develop their own unique talents, and merely follow the latest ‘trends’. I am aware that such trends and fashions have always existed in the world of Art, but at least in the past stuff was done what involved genuine skill and talent. An unmade bed is just taking the mick. Emin is a mediocre ‘artist’ at best. People like her know they’ll never make money on the back of their true abilities, so instead just play the meeja game. And people like that Saatchi bloke are no better than Simon Cowell.
New stuff now is in the digital realm, virtual reality and such. Probably technology things done in the military or medicine or something that’ll trickle down till someone with daft creative ideas can get hold of it.
who was that experimental art/internet guy? put loads of people in little cubicles all connected in a mini internet house, going loopy?
Remember that Rokeby bloke? What a tit. 😆