BLOG Seminar December
2012
There
is no longer any such thing as counter-culture
We
have been asked to consider counter-cultural moments
and
then
Discuss
if this, (counter-culture)
could happen now, or has the counter-cultural been absorbed and sold
back to us as a commodity?
I had a
file full of relevant papers, notes and our plan for our seminar
today, we (Alex and I ) had read loads, Alex had bought a number of
books and we had both prepared well , we knew how we were going to
work, but I was held up and late in. I had all my notes and
presentation plans with me, so that did not help Alex who started to
work on the OHP side of things. We also had that incredibly long cold
crit this morning that seemed to go on for hours, cutting short any
time to gather our thoughts.
Everything
was then too much of a rush and my mind really went blank. My rule
for presentations let me down and I had to 'read the stuff', rather
than talk about our bulleted points.
Like the
morning crit, this too turned into a very long session, but I had,
what can to a certain extent be termed a working knowledge of the
era, and was able to respond and with Alex move the session forward
as memories helped restore what had frozen up earlier.
I
believe Alex and I through our research and reading had a substantial
insight into the era of revolution, but counter cultural moments
reveal themselves periodically, taking different forms in time;
wars; industrial changes; votes for women; Gothic; tribal piercings
and many more are all counter-cultural moments and reshape becoming
absorbed as our culture changes, we have a very different society
now, I think it unlikely that a massive movement that changes the
course of art will be seen as society accepts and absorbs.
I was 20
in1968, I lived near to Crouch End, I had had, an unconditional place
at Hornsey when I was 17, and many of my friends were there at the
time of 'the revolution' that inspired and changed so much.
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