Tag: Art
Love thy Artist
**Trigger warnings** At what point does an artist’s behaviour affect your level of enjoyment for their body of work? Can you like an artist who does terrible things in real life? And if not, what’s the threshold before you go “nah, I’m not gonna listen to them/watch their films any more”.
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Boomtown/Ghost-town
Where are we at? Four years ago, on 4 September 2010, Christchurch and Canterbury was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. This morning I went back to my old stomping ground.
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Goodbye to all that, with added spraycans
There are ways of saying goodbye to your home. Ours involved realising the garage was getting demolished too, and grabbing stuff out of it as quick as we could.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
I worked in Christchurch’s CBD until Labour weekend last year. Now I work in Linwood, but I still commute via the CBD. It gives me a good chance to keep an eye on what’s changing around the central city.
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What’s the deal with feminist art?
“Feminism, as an art movement is over. All the issues of feminism have been solved”, said a classmate in one of my lectures once.
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