Chris Coleman's Talk - Incident Report

Chris Coleman's Talk
March 7. St.Mary's college

His session was quite interesting. He showed some of his video clips and graphics and three dimensional objects. Particularly, I liked his first smoke coming out from factories. The repetition and changes of the patterns of smoke reminded me of breathing the smoke of cigarettes in and out, and it sounded like an unknown creature's breathing. He explained that this piece represents the dispersing hope rather than producing or sucking in, even though the whole scene looked so much polluted, and it also represents never-ending deluge, controlled breathing, and complicit in the process. Actually he didn't have to explain fully because it limits the audience's chances to think about the art piece. They will just accept the artist's ideas but not think about it after then.

He also said art should be criticized and also giving questions to audience. But finally the last action is upon the audience. Sometimes, it's hard to discover what an art work means to us without basic information about it. Well, I'm not sure we can just put art in a box like that.