Art School-hating Rant.
I'm feeling really restless lately. I don't know what to write about. Tomorrow is my Sister-In-Law's baby-shower - oh yeah, I'm going to be an aunt LOL.
I think I take Visual Arts Society too damn seriously. I'm constantly thinking about it. The sad thing is that I don't paid for any of the work I do, so why am I so goal oriented with VAS?
I just want art school to go away. I switched out of Time Based Art (video + me = awesomeness, duh) because of the professor. Duff reminds me of everything I hate about art school. Too much. During the last lecture, I almost jumped out of my seat like, 4 times, probably a good thing that I didn't. Every time she started to go on about the Aesthetics of War, Gaming to Destruction visual relationships, technology and media in conceptual art terms I just wanted to shout out at her that in reality aesthetics come secondary to functionality.
This is what I fundamentally hate about Art School. There is no proof. It's all theory. In Science, for example, there is a method. You have a Scientific method for inquiry that you follow to a set and expected, and repeatable, end. If that result isn't achieved, you try again in a different way - you problem solve.
Not in art (which, can and is argued that that's what makes it "Special"). In art it's all up in the air and as long as it's labeled right, and you can bullshit your way through a critic, you're a valid "thinker." Nothing that is produced (at least from my school) comes from any real, in depth, research, just superficial skimming of text to gain a decent understanding to move on with a thought. And who fucking cares about Performance Art anyway? It's all staged anyway. I can't help but feel how contrived that is.
Have I just shed the skin of an "artist"? Have I ever seen myself as an artist or just someone who is gifted with the visual arts? I never even considered making art, professionally, post-art school. It just seems like a huge waste of time to be conceptually introspective when its so much more fun and productive to be pro-active about a problem and fix it, instead of "creating a dialogue between the piece and the viewer" that will ultimately go no further than to the back of their unconscious.
I thought about switching into Business and Comm. but, seriously? I'm almost done my damn degrees. After university, I'll probably work for a few years before going for my Graduate studies. Or, i'll just do my MBA right off the bat at UWin. But do I really want to? I could do part-time.
Ugh... 2 more months...
I think I take Visual Arts Society too damn seriously. I'm constantly thinking about it. The sad thing is that I don't paid for any of the work I do, so why am I so goal oriented with VAS?
I just want art school to go away. I switched out of Time Based Art (video + me = awesomeness, duh) because of the professor. Duff reminds me of everything I hate about art school. Too much. During the last lecture, I almost jumped out of my seat like, 4 times, probably a good thing that I didn't. Every time she started to go on about the Aesthetics of War, Gaming to Destruction visual relationships, technology and media in conceptual art terms I just wanted to shout out at her that in reality aesthetics come secondary to functionality.
This is what I fundamentally hate about Art School. There is no proof. It's all theory. In Science, for example, there is a method. You have a Scientific method for inquiry that you follow to a set and expected, and repeatable, end. If that result isn't achieved, you try again in a different way - you problem solve.
Not in art (which, can and is argued that that's what makes it "Special"). In art it's all up in the air and as long as it's labeled right, and you can bullshit your way through a critic, you're a valid "thinker." Nothing that is produced (at least from my school) comes from any real, in depth, research, just superficial skimming of text to gain a decent understanding to move on with a thought. And who fucking cares about Performance Art anyway? It's all staged anyway. I can't help but feel how contrived that is.
Have I just shed the skin of an "artist"? Have I ever seen myself as an artist or just someone who is gifted with the visual arts? I never even considered making art, professionally, post-art school. It just seems like a huge waste of time to be conceptually introspective when its so much more fun and productive to be pro-active about a problem and fix it, instead of "creating a dialogue between the piece and the viewer" that will ultimately go no further than to the back of their unconscious.
I thought about switching into Business and Comm. but, seriously? I'm almost done my damn degrees. After university, I'll probably work for a few years before going for my Graduate studies. Or, i'll just do my MBA right off the bat at UWin. But do I really want to? I could do part-time.
Ugh... 2 more months...