My day

Today I went to the Bradford Impressions Gallery... After driving round for over an hour we finally found it. There were two exhibitions on. The first one was called "Motitroti" and I quite liked it. I never really understand what video installation art is all about but I sat for ages watching each one until I understood at least one tiny detail. The main points that came across in the video's were all about different races and cultures. There were three main countries the video's were set in... Britain, Pakistan and India.

• Race
• Gender
• Culteral Politics

Where are we from? Does it really matter? Everyone is the same. But people are not the same. Does it matter if some people are white or black or brown? Is every single person supposed to be treated the same? They say we are but then why aren't we? Why do we have different realtionships between different people?

I wondered about these questions when I was sat.

When it comes to race and people of a different culture I really feel like people find it so challenging, but why?

"A completely new process of working with instituations giving the museum and it's audience a different perspective."

It is not simply a case of elaborationg a project and presenting it to a ready and waiting audience for 'consumption'. It is Motiroti's concerns that invitation to participate is open to all.
The world was dramatically altered after the events of 9/11. There is an ever increasing Islamaphobia and fear of 'the foreigner'. Motiroti produces work which challenges these enduring stereotypes, unpacking cultural identities, and highlighting commonalities shared by different communities.

Second exhibition:
Margareta Kern - 'Clothes For Living and Dying'

Margareta explores the roles that clothing plays in two rites of passage, graduations and funerals.
In the gallery, the photographs had been set out where one half was depicting young woman who had recently graduated from secondary school, in their homes wearing dresses made by there mother.
"Their outfits are based on images, found in fashion magazines and on the internet, showing celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Keira Knightly dressed for the red carpet."

The other half was old woman in clothes which I thought they would wear to a funeral?
"Clothes for Death was inspired by a relatively unkown custom amongst a number of Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian woman who prepare clothes in which they wish to be buried."

I thought this exhibition wasn't very exciting and the photographs of the girls were abit bland... It's just a matter of opinion.
I felt like it could of been set out more creatively instead of, a young girl in a graduation dress, another girl in a graduation dress etc and then an old woman, another old woman.

Anyway moving on..

I then went into Leeds Centre... I know there's an exhibition on at Leeds Uni but I have no idea how to get to it?

I went down to Leeds Art Gallery... How dull was that! The most exciting part was coming out and seeing a little girl practising her Irish Dancing and then there were two random teeenage boys dressed up as pirates? ha.

Anyway, I saw a sign in the Gallery that said 'Rory McBeth' but again I couldn't find anything of his stuff? There was also an exhibition on called "Rank".. It was abit random really.

Anyway thats all I had time for .. I'll post up some photographs of the work later.