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From: Reginald
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 03 November 2004
My Trip to Modern Art Oxford. A wizard video and some beer bottles that had been decorated in one room did not hold my attention for long. A black and white video of what looked like an insect while I was in transit through the darkened room the first time, the second time could have been a video featuring the sculpture I had just seen. One old lady was watching it but the whirring noise that is common to this type of art was a put off for me. Large wooden frames I liked better, and in one room was a video of one of those boat bridges that take cars etc. across rivers featuring a dog in it plus the person tying all the ropes and so on which I enjoyed listening to through the ear phones, I found the noise of the water soothing and it gave me an idea of somewhere else that I perhaps needed that grey British day. In the reception area I enjoyed reading and pretending to read the study table books straining my ears to over hear a tutorial between a polite ‘thank you very much, is it alright if I hand it in tomorrow morning’ girl and a softly spoken tutor. On seeing the an image of Katharina Fritsch’s work I thought of a song with lyrics that go ‘if you tolerate this then your children will be next’(Manic street preachers) and thought that may be it was fine to shock the old and frail at dinner with political correctness in tremendous lectures and attacks on latent(and blatant)racism and prejudice.
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