Melb vs. Monash vs. VCA
Why can't I think of her name? Imelda Staunton is popping in (LOVED her in Fingersmith), but no, - aha! Rosamund Illing. I think it was. What a cow. She may be brilliant, if you were one of the chosen ones, and had the proper attitude, and could pander/deal with her personality. I think having been confronted with these types of people before, I could deal with it. But would I want to?
Meh. That is entirely unreasoned, and purely gut instinct. As Mum pointed out, she's probably very good for the funding, and the contacts. The work experience and industry contacts look much better at Melbourne. But VCA and Monash both sound much more nurturing... and I respond well to that style. Can I imagine bantering with, or having an honest conversation with Rosamund? Hmm. Perhaps.
Well, at least she has balls - that opening statement was blunt. But then the fifteen minutes of self-praise was annoying.
I think I could come to like her. Perhaps. Sort of in the way I'm fond of Tanya, despite her fascist politics. But I'm probably not good (the talent or the hardworking) enough for such an elitist school of music; higher obscurity factors, less solo performance opportunities. And the incredibly tight classical-restriction. Don't bring me musical theatre, indeed.
VCA? The 29 year old 2nd year I spoke to was full of praise. She had already had an arts degree, however, and spent three years at the Con. I wish the degree was available after 2009, so I could do it later, when I was really sure I wanted it - Gah! Curse Melbourne and their tricky amalgamations. The VCA is just a feather in their cap, but the amalgamation is really stifling the VCA. Prime real estate, etc - do we have to be worried? I really hope not. *glares*
And VCA art - it looked much more professional than Monash, to a higher standard overall. More conceptual. I guess I need to decide which teaching style I respond best to - more hands on at Monash, more hands-OFF at VCA. Not sure if I'm ready to be told, here's some space, well, get to it! - might want to do some basic technique learning first... I think I'm more of a traditionalist at the moment when it comes to art. Maybe I can branch off and be all avant garde and wanky when I've got that base. (And I have such a tendency to indulge in the wank. Gah. The artist/critic thing. I was at a talk with Rick Amor at Heide. The curator, a young Scottish girl, was conducting a QnA session, with a well known critic. Who used fancy words and sounded like he didn't know what he was talking about. "Luminal", for example, which is one of my mother's hotwords and relates to her vision of gender. Luminal spaces. A few times, he would give this longwinded explanation of his view of Amor's art, and Rick just responded with a blank "No." It was amusing in a horrible way - the audience laughed, but I was torn - I could really see how that critic could have come to those conclusions, and sometimes it's FUN to use those words. But is it any use to art? There were mutterings, in the audience, and I could understand the eye-rolling factor. Gah. This was exactly my dilemma in the extended essay with Bradbeer- Mother was all, you must have philosophical underpinnings! Aesthetics! and i was all, I'm going to describe the pretty pastel now. RRRGH.)
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Or, then, Monash. Double degree, either Arts/Music or Arts/Visual art. If I did Arts/Vis art, i could do a music theatre night course at the VCA. *goes off to check if that hasn't been cancelled since 2007*
... It's not on! D:
There were art ones though. Or a DipMus?
Maybe I should search out Ms Kings - she was our career advisor, but went private. She's BRILLIANT, biased towards Melbourne, knows everyone, and she actually gave you an opinion on things.
Well. This hasn't sorted things out at all. Back to biology, and oranges, it is the middle of the night and veryone else is asleep. Their mattresses have migrated downstairs, it's four on two singles. I elected to stay upstairs, but the dust is making me sick, I think...
Apart from the pressing urgency to apply to VTAC (though, yeah, I know, it doesn't matter because of CoP) today was quite fun, actually. Sweet telephone call in the evening, and the awesome red-scarfed philosophy lecturer at Melbourne (he explained the Melb Model as "red things," "green things things" and "blue things." *chuckles*). Seeing the art at the VCA. But then again, I'm feeling a bit blase about the whole thing. it's all the same. Perhaps it's just the whole Research Workbook thing for the IB, finding artists who arbitrarily influence you, of course perfectly balanced in their methods of abstraction and figuration, cultures of origin and aliveness; but I'm not feeling particularly inspired by any artists at the moment. Sure, creating art is fun, but you never really know what art IS anyway - "art is what you can get away with." At least with Music, you know. Perhaps that visceral Jazz thing is where I need to go. Yes? No? Maybe.
Meh. That is entirely unreasoned, and purely gut instinct. As Mum pointed out, she's probably very good for the funding, and the contacts. The work experience and industry contacts look much better at Melbourne. But VCA and Monash both sound much more nurturing... and I respond well to that style. Can I imagine bantering with, or having an honest conversation with Rosamund? Hmm. Perhaps.
Well, at least she has balls - that opening statement was blunt. But then the fifteen minutes of self-praise was annoying.
I think I could come to like her. Perhaps. Sort of in the way I'm fond of Tanya, despite her fascist politics. But I'm probably not good (the talent or the hardworking) enough for such an elitist school of music; higher obscurity factors, less solo performance opportunities. And the incredibly tight classical-restriction. Don't bring me musical theatre, indeed.
VCA? The 29 year old 2nd year I spoke to was full of praise. She had already had an arts degree, however, and spent three years at the Con. I wish the degree was available after 2009, so I could do it later, when I was really sure I wanted it - Gah! Curse Melbourne and their tricky amalgamations. The VCA is just a feather in their cap, but the amalgamation is really stifling the VCA. Prime real estate, etc - do we have to be worried? I really hope not. *glares*
And VCA art - it looked much more professional than Monash, to a higher standard overall. More conceptual. I guess I need to decide which teaching style I respond best to - more hands on at Monash, more hands-OFF at VCA. Not sure if I'm ready to be told, here's some space, well, get to it! - might want to do some basic technique learning first... I think I'm more of a traditionalist at the moment when it comes to art. Maybe I can branch off and be all avant garde and wanky when I've got that base. (And I have such a tendency to indulge in the wank. Gah. The artist/critic thing. I was at a talk with Rick Amor at Heide. The curator, a young Scottish girl, was conducting a QnA session, with a well known critic. Who used fancy words and sounded like he didn't know what he was talking about. "Luminal", for example, which is one of my mother's hotwords and relates to her vision of gender. Luminal spaces. A few times, he would give this longwinded explanation of his view of Amor's art, and Rick just responded with a blank "No." It was amusing in a horrible way - the audience laughed, but I was torn - I could really see how that critic could have come to those conclusions, and sometimes it's FUN to use those words. But is it any use to art? There were mutterings, in the audience, and I could understand the eye-rolling factor. Gah. This was exactly my dilemma in the extended essay with Bradbeer- Mother was all, you must have philosophical underpinnings! Aesthetics! and i was all, I'm going to describe the pretty pastel now. RRRGH.)
< / rant>
Or, then, Monash. Double degree, either Arts/Music or Arts/Visual art. If I did Arts/Vis art, i could do a music theatre night course at the VCA. *goes off to check if that hasn't been cancelled since 2007*
... It's not on! D:
There were art ones though. Or a DipMus?
Maybe I should search out Ms Kings - she was our career advisor, but went private. She's BRILLIANT, biased towards Melbourne, knows everyone, and she actually gave you an opinion on things.
Well. This hasn't sorted things out at all. Back to biology, and oranges, it is the middle of the night and veryone else is asleep. Their mattresses have migrated downstairs, it's four on two singles. I elected to stay upstairs, but the dust is making me sick, I think...
Apart from the pressing urgency to apply to VTAC (though, yeah, I know, it doesn't matter because of CoP) today was quite fun, actually. Sweet telephone call in the evening, and the awesome red-scarfed philosophy lecturer at Melbourne (he explained the Melb Model as "red things," "green things things" and "blue things." *chuckles*). Seeing the art at the VCA. But then again, I'm feeling a bit blase about the whole thing. it's all the same. Perhaps it's just the whole Research Workbook thing for the IB, finding artists who arbitrarily influence you, of course perfectly balanced in their methods of abstraction and figuration, cultures of origin and aliveness; but I'm not feeling particularly inspired by any artists at the moment. Sure, creating art is fun, but you never really know what art IS anyway - "art is what you can get away with." At least with Music, you know. Perhaps that visceral Jazz thing is where I need to go. Yes? No? Maybe.