Media Burn

Ann coxon came in last year and showed us about an exhibition that she has created at the TATE:



16 December 2006 – 18 February 2007
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Media Burn exhibition, 2006 Photo: Marcus Leith and Andrew Dunkley © Tate
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Media Burn explores the boundaries between art, politics, protest and the media. It combines contemporary works with those from the 1970s and 1980s, all sharing a DIY, collage aesthetic that involves manipulating the images and techniques of the mass media. Some of the artists explore the relationship between politics and everyday life in the domestic environment. Others take to the streets, contemplating the effectiveness of protest and direct action in the twenty-first century.



Martha Rosler’s collages throw a spotlight on the media consumption of the Iraq war, while Peter Kennard’s satirical




photomontages provide a savage commentary on 1980s British politics and society. Sharon Hayes holds a one-woman protest using slogans taken from past political actions. Similarly, Jens Ullrich doctors documentary photographs of demonstrations to render their placards meaningless. Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy present a spoof feminist news report, while Valérie Mréjen creates a hypnotic and melancholy essay on the limited horizons of a 1970s housewife. Josephine Meckseper’s glittering shop window displays teasingly blur the relationships between politics and art, culture and advertising

Site: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/mediaburn/default.shtm#

First entry

first blog....
Practice in Context
Bit of a confusing module, weigh up whether a dissertation would be easier. At the minute my 'Practice' isn't really anywhere its all over the place, not to sure what i really want to do. Carry on from last year is the first place to start, but i kinda almost want to direct it in a new light, or expand it. For this idea of what form the form of the 'dissertation' should take i've been thinking about accessable distributions- Magazine/ Newpaper/on-line/ book Its kind of really imprortant part of it, the distribution, the wide accessible
looked at Emma Rushtons -Mule Mule
Also i went to Cyprus College of Art in the sumer and they had their own newspaper, i might have a go at getting one propely made up.

I think so far i want my dissertation to look at; how artists address and pose questions about the notions of the presented image from the media. If it has any part in how they look at reality,Is there a fine line between the two ?
Case study :Need to draw it closer to the home?? Why are you doing the home? Humour key point? Is there a need for a why?
Is it necessarily the media or rather a larger form of distribution??
Women, what does this mean, am I using this gender as a case study? Why do artists concentrate on what they do is there some kind of subconscious meaning or what??
What time do I concentrate it on now or then? Has anything changed or is it just another form of going with it, or is it slowly changing to another thing