Fun Wednesday Lecture 25th March

Four groups of graduates came in to give a talk about their initiatives. 

1)Cactus

2)Set the Controls For the Heart Of the Sun

3)School of the Damned

4)12O Collective

I found these talks very helpful and insightful in terms of what is out there and what some graduates do after the graduation. How they managed to get out there in the real world. That it is possible to join or create your own group with similar beliefs and form something special together. 

These talks were more beneficial for me that the rest of the talks throughout the year, because the artists talked about what they did as a group and what they believed in compared to some artists from different lectures coming in and just talking about themselves and their work. For me it feels isolated if you trying to get out there by yourself as an artist, it is hard to come through. I feel as though you need to be a part of the group and have connection as the graduates from these initiatives have to back and help each other. They have connections and i believe connections are very important in the art world. Networking!  

I felt inspired by these groups and saw my possible future in something like them. 

I also enjoyed the way they expressed themselves through talking. They didn't try hard they were just being themselves. It wasn't boring and through them talking you got to know their personalities. Sometimes artists come in and talk in a very formal way which becomes very boring after a while. But these groups of young artists were informal, free and comfortable with just being themselves and i absolutely loved that! 

I will be showing in Set the Controls For the Heart Of the Sun in a couple of weeks time, and having the person who organised the space to come in and give a talk about the space and how it started was very helpful and very interesting.

~Ev