When the interactive arts crew and i headed to Liverpool for the Biennial, FACT was the first exhibtion we visited as a group, where i came across a room full of photographs of this japanese man- of which had been taken every second for- if i remember- for every second over a year. it was quite fascinating to look at- there was also an accompanied video.
We then hit the exhibition at 54 Renshaw street, which personally was a little confusing to me at first. When I first went into the basement, I came across these 3 videos by Ryan Trecartin called 'Trill-ogy Comp: P.opular S.ky 2009.' I have come across Ryan Trecartin before as my tutor for my art foundation course told me to check him out. I however didn't like him mush when I checked his videos on youtube. His filming style is brilliant, but what was creepy was the way these tranvestite men were talking to each other being really over the top americans. It was a little bit too much for me, so I decided to head upstairs. My favorite exhibition i came across nearly got avoided by me as I didn't realise there was an upstairs to visit too. But this photo to the right is NS Harsha's 'Sky Gazers.' The reason this was my favourite was because it really let you interact with it and was a lot of fun to play with. It involved this huge room with a mirror for its ceiling and for the floor it was a load of illustrations for different types of people looking directly up so when you look at the mirrored ceiling you get the impression they are looking at you. I really liked how this messsed with reality. The photo I took of myself taking a photograph of the ceiling was my favourite as there is a ninja character right behind me, and it looks like he's about to creep onto me and assassinate me. as pictured above.
However, the next exhibition at City States art gallery was just as enjoyable, mainly because it involved lots of video/animations. The artists were mainly of asian orgin, so it was cool to see videos and animations from the other side of the world. The one I enjoyed the most was of this simple animation of an outline of a man doing horrible things to himself like exploding himself up or cutting his penis off etc. I thought the simplicity in the animation found it enjoyable to watch as the cartoon was simply very effective. I liked how outside the gallery there was a mini skate park where there were a few skaters practising. I tried to get the perfect shot of them in the air, but proved it was quite difficult! Was quite fun to watch them skate nevertheless.
Finally we had the Bloomberg Contempories exhibition which I personally didn't pay as much attention to in the end as I was extremely tired and just wanted to visit the beach, which I should point out was very windy and cold! It was fun to visit the Anthony Gormley sculptures nevertheless. I liked how rusted and weathered they were; all convered in seaweed. It showed that it had lived a life. I like how the further out to sea they are, the more worn and torn they look. In this particular picture, it was actually quite hard to get across to as there was a load of water in the sand of which I thought would be easy to walk across with my big doc boots on, but it was just sinking central! It was quite fun to try and wade across though!
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