Once again I have been off away from the land of blogs, not actually away from the internet you understand, no, no, just away from posting on this blog. Why? Well because I have had visitors from interstate who I have been entertaining and doing fun things with. Like for example going on a long drive with my family and best friend to Bruny Island for a day. A beautiful day that involved catching a car ferry across the Channel, just off the Derwent River in Hobart to Bruny Island, or more correctly both North and South Bruny Island since they are technically two islands linked by a spit of land with the highly original name of the spit! It was a beautiful day complete with seeing the tracks of many, many penguins, although unfortunately the penguins themselves were off swimming the ocean and were not around to say hello. Other adventures included other family drives, trips to Mount Wellington to play in the snow and of course swing dancing. I dragged one of my visitors along for the fun of 2 nights of swing dancing lessons which she thoroughly enjoyed. Alas my second visitor was only here for 5 days as opposed to 2 weeks so I was not able to drag her along.
One of the most amazing adventures that I had was going to MONA which is the Museum of New and Old Art in Hobart. It is an incredible museum, so many interesting, thought provoking, contentious exhibitions it is fabulous, I recommend if any one ever gets a chance to come to Hobart, going to this museum it is truly awesome.
There are so many interesting and inspiring artworks that I find it very hard to say which is my favourite, but there are two artworks in particular that really got me thinking and I think got a lot of people thinking.
The first is a number (can't remember how many) plaster casts of women's vagina's called Cunts and other Conversations. I think it's fabulous because the casts are not prettied up or anything like that, the models ranged between the ages of 18 and 78 and are of various religious and cultural backgrounds and ethnicities. I think that vagina's are still taboo for most women, we're not supposed to talk about them, we're not supposed to really admit to having one, when we see one in the media, which is rarely, it is usually airbrushed into presubscribed notion of what would be attractive or acceptable, we're supposed to make it more pallatable to men and I guess the world at large by making it tidy and smell "nice" and represent beauty and sexiness. The exhibition is not like this, it is raw and it is unapologetic. I think its fabulous, its confronting the world with something we're not supposed to talk about and saying not only do they exist, but they are beautiful and you know what they are art!!!
The second is, I think far more contraversial but I think just as interesting and thought provoking. It is a large what appears to be photo of a dog fucking a man from behind. It is really intriguing and I think forces the viewer to consider the notions of consent and what classifies as consent. Beastiality suggests to me the idea that animals are not given consent, that an act is forced upon them, but the position of man and dog in this photo makes you really think about this concept.
So, go to the museum, there are loads more that are amazing and thought provoking and interesting!
There were many other adventures over my holidays, this is just a small snapshot.
And now back to uni!!! :)
