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Well, ‘art’ is a difficult experience to share online, I think. In the film or music or comics forums, everyone can see or read or listen to the same thing in the same month, and so can happily yatter away about it at length. Comics threads don’t ever last very long if only one person has read the comic in question. The music thread has plenty of chit-chat about albums but comparatively little about gigs. Theatre hardly ever gets a look in anywhere. I reckon there’s no way you’re going to get a very active forum discussing exhibitions without Barbelith all living in the same town.
So. Here’s an idea. Make a thread for your exhibition space, and you, Olula, can be first curator. Pick your favourite painting (or two if you want, whatever), and post up an image and tell us why it rings your bell. Start a discussion that way. Pick something you’re happy fielding questions about, about which there’s plenty to be said/asked/answered/interpreted. And, when we’ve exhausted that one, then someone else can have a go to tell us all about their favourite painting, one after the other. It could be a long-running thing, a bit equivalent to the Barbelith commonplace thread in books, but with the kind of groovy art-talk you can get up to in real galleries.
Because there are loads of us who can and will wax lyrical about art ‘n stuff. But we’re going to need a shared subject in order to have a discussion, and “I saw blah exhibition at blah gallery” isn’t ever going to provide that. So, go ahead and pick a subject, pick a painting. Maybe all the forum needs a kind of central thread which other discussions can spin off from and relate back to. I think it’s possible to talk about how you react to a picture without oodles of theory; and anyway, the heavy theory stuff always ends up in the Headshop. This is the Spectacle: show us some pictures, lets react. Artistically, like. |
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