The second section of the crit was people chipping in to give spoken statements starting "what worked for me". This was very nice, and affirming. Having listened to the recording of the comments, there was a lot less material than for the written 'emotional feedback', and covered a lot of the same ground, which was inevitable and healthy.
Generally I would say:
As before, people saw the playfulness/humour overlaying deep emotions, without trivialisation, which was very gratifying as was perhaps the biggest endorsement of my approach
There were further calls for me to embrace performance art - very kind, but not for me right now I feel (I think all art is performance art, and I’m more interested in how I could enable other to perform/participate to create artefacts that would be the artworks e.g. everyone's shared performance for “Wish You were Hear” and the art book of postcards was the resulting permanent piece (even if it was a dim shadow of the piece itself))
Several comments on level of thought and care in the work which were really appreciated as it's a core value for me
It was nice to see more comments on presentation, the quality (physical and metaphorical) of the resin, the tension created by the presentation of “A Month in my Head”. This is something I really worked at in Unit 2, so it was really nice to hear it paying off
Interesting suggestion to have the masks in conversation for the final show - could be an interesting way to bring it all together, but would I want to literally have them ‘talk’? What other, less literal ways, could they talk?
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