DAY 14

Mark Leckey retrospective
[We don't have this discussion. These are the questions I would have asked.]

Why are "what does it mean?" and "what is it about?" not always the most useful questions when it comes to art?

In what ways is his work particularly London-ish and British?

In what ways was his video sculptural? How were they interested in the solidity of physical objects?

What were some recurring themes running throughout the entire exhibition?

Why did he focus on medieval culture? In what ways did he connect medieval religion with contemporary (1980s-present) youth subculture? What is an iconoclast? What is an iconolater?  What is incarnation?

In what ways did he *include* contemporary internet culture without making the work exclusively *about* contemporary internet culture?

What was the deal with Felix the Cat? What was the deal with Y2K?

In what ways was the work apocalyptic? In what ways was the work funny? Can humor and doom be related? How?

In what ways was the house demolition piece related to the refrigerator piece?

In what ways did he use 3D modeling and animation to bring his "video" art to another conceptual level? In what ways could you use your own 3D  and animation skills to do more than make a five-minute narrative Pixar-genre animation?