Context
at times i can be annoyed when people asked me "subtext" and mentioned other related academic terms, for me an exhibit should be simple, enjoyable and at the same time, opening up their perspectives and finally bring back "something" home.
what irritates me is people love to drop fancy terms in their FB criticism of a film or an exhibition - while people who read it will get the wrong summary, see their fb comments. First of all, its easy to criticize or write a scathing reviews. Grow some concrete balls and do it.
any academic terms or whatever fancy words should be put aside, save it for conference or whatever dry moderations. But since everyone wants to know "context or subtext" of the A Place Called Home, fine, im sharing it here.
Each human sensory perspective is not completely biological or natural. It is also HISTORICAL. The ways people perceive change with social changes, or changes in ‘humanity’s entire mode of existence’.
In Marxist fashion understanding, Art is coming to resemble economic production - from contemplation to "distraction" creating big changes in how people SENSE and PERCEIVE.
Historically, works of art had an ‘aura’ – an appearance of magical or supernatural force arising from their uniqueness.The aura includes a sensory experience of distance between the reader and the work of art.
The aura has disappeared in the modern age because art has become reproducible. A work of classic literature can be bought cheaply in paperback, or a painting bought as a poster. And now in Instagram.
Think also of newer forms of art, such as TV shows and adverts. Then compare these to the experience of staring at an original work of art in a gallery, or visiting a unique historic building - Walter Benjamin. Its all about the setting, seeing each in the comfort of your living hall, thru your smartphone or dress smart casual sipping wine, dine with cracker and cheese in a brilliant, imposing galleries, surrounded with various sound of foreign accent.
Now see all these works re-contextualized belongs to Balai Seni Negara with new perspectives.
Here are the ones selected from Instagram.
what irritates me is people love to drop fancy terms in their FB criticism of a film or an exhibition - while people who read it will get the wrong summary, see their fb comments. First of all, its easy to criticize or write a scathing reviews. Grow some concrete balls and do it.
subtext
noun
- an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation."in any biography the relationship of author to subject forms a haunting subtext"
any academic terms or whatever fancy words should be put aside, save it for conference or whatever dry moderations. But since everyone wants to know "context or subtext" of the A Place Called Home, fine, im sharing it here.
Each human sensory perspective is not completely biological or natural. It is also HISTORICAL. The ways people perceive change with social changes, or changes in ‘humanity’s entire mode of existence’.
In Marxist fashion understanding, Art is coming to resemble economic production - from contemplation to "distraction" creating big changes in how people SENSE and PERCEIVE.
Historically, works of art had an ‘aura’ – an appearance of magical or supernatural force arising from their uniqueness.The aura includes a sensory experience of distance between the reader and the work of art.
The aura has disappeared in the modern age because art has become reproducible. A work of classic literature can be bought cheaply in paperback, or a painting bought as a poster. And now in Instagram.
Think also of newer forms of art, such as TV shows and adverts. Then compare these to the experience of staring at an original work of art in a gallery, or visiting a unique historic building - Walter Benjamin. Its all about the setting, seeing each in the comfort of your living hall, thru your smartphone or dress smart casual sipping wine, dine with cracker and cheese in a brilliant, imposing galleries, surrounded with various sound of foreign accent.
Now see all these works re-contextualized belongs to Balai Seni Negara with new perspectives.
Here are the ones selected from Instagram.
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