Though last night they had the most amazingly bizarre interveiw with the artist Jacqueline Fraser.
She has a black beehive hairdo and these sunglasses that made bono's glasses look the same size as john lennon's. She wouldn't answer any questions and then just got up from her seat and walked off, cut to studio and Oliver Driver doing a great 'what the fuck' look.
hah! that's actually the incident that spurred me to ask the topic starter - I saw the 'artist walks out' teaser in the weekly frontseat email, and wondered what exactly had spurred it.
nothing, it would seem, beyond artistic temperament?
No, she seemed to be a genuinely stuck up prig.
When asked the question "how do you view NZ art in relation to the art overseas?" (or something thereabouts). She replied (again something thereabouts) "I'm a woman of the world, I care nothing for NZ anymore, I suggest if you want to find out about NZ you should go to a museum... or perhaps a university" and then scrunched up her face in such a way that it looked like she may be passing a gall stone.
And her art was pretty bad, large drawings that look like a fashion deigners rough schetches, with stuff like "that stick figure is such a Kate Moss wannabe" written on it.
Cheers - I've just read somewhere that she regards herself as being in exile, presumably because we lack the taste necessary to appreciate her art, which sounds so modernist. In many of my visits to modern art galleries, I've noticed that there is a particular school of modern art in which there is a fine line between the work of a modern artist and that of your average pre-schooler: this artist sounds like she might be one of them.
But the best was when he asked her about her art or herself being tough or some such thing, and she said "Well I had a NZ childhood. That's as tough as it gets" or something. Some one done her wrong, I reckon!
I watch Frontseat when I happen to be home and remember, but I can't say its compulsory viewing, mainly because it simply tries to do too much and leaves everything feeling rushed and compromised. We really should have better and more regular arts programmes on TV - somewhere we can expect to see a sensible discussion of books & interviews with authors, the same with painters, theatre types, crafty types, musical types. Each deserves its own programme, not just when it can be fited in to Frontseat.
I enjoy watching frontseat sometimes. When i tend to change the channel is when they talk about a subject I'm not totally interested in. If there were specialist shows for artistic mediums i'd probably be inclined to watch the ones that are on subjects that interest me.
But saying that we all know this won't happen because you can't make much $$ off arts programming on tv, so the networks will probably continue to ignore a lot of it and put it on in crappy timeslots.
Did anyone see frontseat last night? I was kinda half-watching, but was quite taken aback at just how freaky Oliver Driver was looking? And, I may have missed it, but did he manage to do a whole section about a film he was starring in (complete with many clips of him in action), without once mentioning that he was actually in the film? weird.
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It's pretty much the same old same old ...
It's pretty much the same old same old really.
Though last night they had the most amazingly bizarre interveiw with the artist Jacqueline Fraser.
She has a black beehive hairdo and these sunglasses that made bono's glasses look the same size as john lennon's. She wouldn't answer any questions and then just got up from her seat and walked off, cut to studio and Oliver Driver doing a great 'what the fuck' look.
hah! that's actually the incident that ...
hah! that's actually the incident that spurred me to ask the topic starter - I saw the 'artist walks out' teaser in the weekly frontseat email, and wondered what exactly had spurred it.
nothing, it would seem, beyond artistic temperament?
I wonder - did this look at all staged?...
I wonder - did this look at all staged?
//artistic temperament? Pretty ...
//artistic temperament?
Pretty much.
//staged?
No, she seemed to be a genuinely stuck up prig.
When asked the question "how do you view NZ art in relation to the art overseas?" (or something thereabouts). She replied (again something thereabouts) "I'm a woman of the world, I care nothing for NZ anymore, I suggest if you want to find out about NZ you should go to a museum... or perhaps a university" and then scrunched up her face in such a way that it looked like she may be passing a gall stone.
And her art was pretty bad, large drawings that look like a fashion deigners rough schetches, with stuff like "that stick figure is such a Kate Moss wannabe" written on it.
Cheers - I've just read somewhere that ...
Cheers - I've just read somewhere that she regards herself as being in exile, presumably because we lack the taste necessary to appreciate her art, which sounds so modernist. In many of my visits to modern art galleries, I've noticed that there is a particular school of modern art in which there is a fine line between the work of a modern artist and that of your average pre-schooler: this artist sounds like she might be one of them.
But the best was when he asked her ...
But the best was when he asked her about her art or herself being tough or some such thing, and she said "Well I had a NZ childhood. That's as tough as it gets" or something. Some one done her wrong, I reckon!
I watch Frontseat when I happen to be ...
I watch Frontseat when I happen to be home and remember, but I can't say its compulsory viewing, mainly because it simply tries to do too much and leaves everything feeling rushed and compromised. We really should have better and more regular arts programmes on TV - somewhere we can expect to see a sensible discussion of books & interviews with authors, the same with painters, theatre types, crafty types, musical types. Each deserves its own programme, not just when it can be fited in to Frontseat.
I enjoy watching frontseat sometimes. ...
I enjoy watching frontseat sometimes. When i tend to change the channel is when they talk about a subject I'm not totally interested in. If there were specialist shows for artistic mediums i'd probably be inclined to watch the ones that are on subjects that interest me.
But saying that we all know this won't happen because you can't make much $$ off arts programming on tv, so the networks will probably continue to ignore a lot of it and put it on in crappy timeslots.
Did anyone see frontseat last night? I ...
Did anyone see frontseat last night? I was kinda half-watching, but was quite taken aback at just how freaky Oliver Driver was looking? And, I may have missed it, but did he manage to do a whole section about a film he was starring in (complete with many clips of him in action), without once mentioning that he was actually in the film? weird.