After crawling out of bed at 8.30am, feeling fluey, I spent three hours this morning finishing my notes for a two hour performance writing workshop I was due to run this afternoon at Gasworks. Then I negotiated public transport, disruptions caused by the Melbourne Marathon (it's all your fault, DUP!) and my general sense of bleurgh-ness, only to arrive at Gasworks to discover that only one of the three people who'd actually booked for my workshop had shown up - and she was also sick, and was thinking about going home!
Not surprisingly, the workshop was cancelled. I was mildy peeved, as you might imagine, given the work I'd put into planning it.
Oh well - at least I got out into the spring sunshine for a few hours, and on my grumpy way home I found time to drop into ACCA to check out Gillian Wearing's retrospective exhibition. It's superb; a revelatory examination of human nature through the media of video and photography.
Looking at her work, I was reminded of this quote by Oscar Wilde:
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Do go and see Wearing's exhibition if you get the chance.
As for me, right now I'm going back to bed for a couple of hours, so that I'll have enough energy to see Sean M Whelan and the Mime Set tonight at Bar Open at 10pm. Perhaps I'll see you there?
4 comments:
Ha ha!
You should have joined me, it would have been faster, also the amount of arse on the course would have brightened your day!!
The Wearing exhibition is fucking great, she is such a star. Loved her work for ages it was great seeing it in situ.
I think a visit to this exhibition should be in school curiculum.
Give him a mask, eh? Obviously this is the perfect opportunity to plug the next Is Not Magazine launch on Friday 13 October. It's a Masquerade Fantasy Ball at Backstage (cnr Lt Collins/Russell above Portland Hotel).
I wrote about Wearing (her "Signs..." project) for one of my honours subjects. I also liked the one where she danced in shopping malls.
Also, I would like to add that my word verification is "kewlse" = coolsie!!
Plug away, Mel, plug away.
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