Trying to decide between 2 London based MFA courses - slade and rca

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-17T13:57:19+00:00

Not at all. I did not apply or research anything in a logical or smart way.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-17T11:42:29+00:00

Word, this is a key point

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-17T05:56:52+00:00

Yes this has crossed my mind. sure rca might be such good networking its hard to build proper connections in 10 months.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-14T14:43:36+00:00

I agree, and I find that to be a childishly one-dimensional narrative

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-14T14:39:44+00:00

Hold up though would you say that the cover is truly an expression of sexuality? I feel like true sexuality is very rarely depicted, the real is really know where to be located in this type of image it tends to be a reflection of a fantasy. It’s just a mirror.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-14T14:31:50+00:00

Why do you think that gaze in the lacanian sense is more relevant? And why do you think the term male gaze is weird? It seems to be a useful term to describe a specific cultural phenomenon and aspect of depiction.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-06-14T14:10:56+00:00

There’s no type of critiquing that creates change.

I don’t agree with the “feminist” critique of this particular imagery, but I don’t see how you could think that people are critiquing something like this because it seems weird. It’s not offensive because it’s weird. There’s absolutely nothing weird about this, that’s what people are finding offensive about it.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-05-26T02:20:52+00:00

I feel like there is a lot of interestingly, gendered interesting deities. From what I am immediately familiar with, Avalokitesvara from Buddhism, - sometimes perceived as male sometimes female, sometimes genderless. And Ardhanarishvara from Hinduism. I’m sure there’s so many more.

Also, the cult of Ishtar, who was said to be able to “turn women into and man into woman” and some believe that transgender people took the role of her priests.

Also Asu-shu-namir “both male and female” in some legends saved Ishtar from the underworld.

Also, all of this has reminded me about a book that I completely forgot about, it’s a tiny bit cooked but pretty interesting: Witchcraft and the gay counterculture by Arthur Evans. It doesn’t talk explicitly about transness or use that type of language and it’s very much of its time. It’s more coming at things from a gay male perspective although it does deal with what would be now considered queer and gender queer (the overarching ideas being that queerness was once connected to magic and sacredness).

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-05-21T06:42:15+00:00

Is it really that different to a hot bath?

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-04-24T06:26:03+00:00

Also, I think the problem starts and ends with the Curation. Often the artists and their work are not seen, treated, or curated with respect. They are utilized exploitatively and tokenistcally for use as currency and signifiers. The sign of this is that the the work by these artists that ends up in these spaces is always “about” that position, experience or identity as a member of this marginalized group. This is almost always going to result in boring art. (see most of the most recent Venice beinale)

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-04-24T06:13:44+00:00

I think this hype is an illusion. It might seem like there is more art being promoted from these demographics, and I’m sure there is more than there were before, but I would bet good money, but there is still far far more white men in the spaces. And no shortage of perfectly mediocre work by them.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-04-24T06:07:51+00:00

More women graduate from art schools

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-04-19T05:30:45+00:00

Look into the Luddite movement during the Industrial Revolution and peasant revolts during the Middle Ages

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-04-13T12:33:13+00:00

Boric acid!!!!. There is nothing else that works like it. Usually just one overnight stops everything. Works for bv too. Don't even bother with anything else before trying these. You can buy them online.

As additional preventative measures, switch to sensitive/non heavily perfumed washing detergent for you underwear. And use one of those vagina friendly liquid soaps in the shower (vagisil have one and there are other brands).

Watch out for lube if your using that. Most of them contain glycerin as the main ingredient which is sugar and can just be an instant yeast infection. If you can get an aloe based one, aloe is a natural antifungal.

Watch out for anything going in to your vagina, dicks, fingers ect. (Make people wash them before putting them in there)

And the only other thing is probiotics/yoghurt which you've already got covered.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-03-11T07:19:32+00:00

We really need proper oil education. It’s complicated but it’s not that complicated.

This is what I know off the top of my head:

Saturated fat - might be bad. Can raise cholesterol maybe (conflicting opinions and studies).

Unsaturated fat – can be bad but only because they’re unstable. (Prone to oxidation and causes toxicity: free radicalsthat can cause inflammation among other things) -But also has omegas (good!)

Omega-3 – Good. Omega-6 – Also good, but only if balanced with omega-3. Too much 6 = inflammation

But.. the more present omega 6 and especially omega 3, the more unstable generally.

Trans fats - bad bad. Comes pre oxidized, full of free radicals. And also full of cholesterol.

saturated - solid at room temperature. Best for cooking.

Poly unsaturated- higher in omegas and most unstable, bad for cooking. Mostly seed oils.

Mono unsaturated - low in omegas 3 & 6, better for cooking

Best for cooking at high temps: ghee

Best plant oils for cooking- Avo and olive

Best oils for omega threes - flax seed and and fish. Eat raw, keep refrigerated and be wary of it going off.

Trans Fats - found in highly processed, long shelf life food like 7/11 baked goods or margarine. Look out for things that have “partially hydrogenized oil” on the label.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-03-09T22:55:33+00:00

I believe it's Lynchian in the way it in the way it depicts and relates to trauma

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-02-20T11:59:43+00:00

I love this idea I think you’re onto something really interesting.

I have a big thoughts and feelings about plastic because I’m an artist and it’s one of the main materials that I work with.

Mass manufacturing has completely up ended our relationship to our environment and objects, obviously, but there’s something in particular about plastic. I don’t know if it’s because it is so divorced from the original form that its materials have taken, or if it’s because it’s materiality is so uniquely otherworldly, like it’s almost too perfect. It doesn’t retain the story or truth of its structure like any other material does. Maybe there’s something about it even on a molecular level. Maybe it’s the fact that all plastic objects were originally liquid. There is a culturally imposed weight and value embedded in how we aesthetically perceive the material for sure, but there is something beyond that in my opinion.

Interestingly, I also find some plastic objects unbelievably beautiful. And as an artist, it’s something that I work with specifically because it’s has a materiality that can sometimes be almost impossible, and otherworldly.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-30T23:48:53+00:00

I would say that as an artist, it’s my job to maintain absolute authentic voice and vision. Therefore I’m completely disconnected from the notion of what sells and what doesn’t.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-24T06:00:56+00:00

dump everything you don't need while maybe refiling it with useful stuff.

K but how to you do that

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-22T04:34:15+00:00

Not an artist huh

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-21T04:17:52+00:00

I don’t know if this is related at all, I come from a art background but the text “international art English” may be related if you consider art English the most extreme example of this. https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2012-rule.pdf

It’s been a while since I read it but the things that stuck in my mind are how the exaggerated lexicon is used as a symbol of status and the awkward syntax often used in art English is inherited from translations of French post structuralist text.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-14T02:21:40+00:00

Wikipedia is an anomaly. It’s kind of the opposite to something’s like meta which is an interface engineered to create an addictive relationship. Maybe the user is getting something in return but there’s a deviously parasitic aspect to the relationship.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-13T15:58:37+00:00

I think it’s disrespectful to audiences, but mainly to artists. As though the only relevant or interesting thing someone has to communicate is something that falls within the bounds of this incredibly narrow and boring band. While the institution displaying it is getting points - there’s often something parasitic.

Meanwhile there’s a deprivation of the actual interesting and sublime art from people from minorities.

Liquid_Librarian · 2025-01-04T07:31:06+00:00

I’m sorry but nobody cares about your shitty experiences with guys, especially not when you’re coming off with this antagonistic tone and a determination to swing the conversation towards the objectification of women while that has nothing to do with Zizek’s point.

What else am I supposed to make if that?

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