video art from "Ridykeulous" exhibition at Nottingham contemporary

 Ballet 

Music is hypnotic. Shows a person trying to fit in, who doesn't quite know the moves.

Fixated on very slim dancers  

She seemed most alien. Driven. Robotic.

Set up; large screen in darken but not blacked out room. simple but effective , lots of space to walk around and the exhibition room reflective of the dance studio set in the film.

My Barbarian.

I like the set up; costumes are displayed next to the video work and the  mask printed on the curtain next to the screen, and the box stools it gave a uniform, visual  connected theme . some of the masks are cool, like the old gods, crude, folk ish also a but shiny futuristic the video dance is all a bit am dram/ theatre school,  intentionally ironic? I didn't get much from it.

I found this work a lot more compelling, ritualistic, mystic, primitive feel, changing emotions.
I thought the movement felt more expressive and natural and the natural location made it all more convincing away from the  am-dram vibe of the last video.

Ak burns

Set up; darkened room, corner screen multiple stories and audio overlap. very sleek looking, cinematic

3 different stories. I like space in the room and dark. Sounds seem to overlap from each story is a bit silly and ridiculous in parts and menacing in others. I can't work out what's happening. Confusion. Overstimulation. Stressful. Skeletons death? Pregnant person?  Life?  A man and woman wading in flooded forest.

Then piano. Then wires. Caves

Then both screens song piano voice . natural acoustics of cave location.

This was an exhibition by queer artists/ through a queer lens. I've mainly focused on the video art for the purpose of my project. I was really just looking at production and curation. what kind of screens, projections are used to get ideas. for my work though I will be financially limited equipment wise. next to the photographs above just jotted feelings about the work emotion/ story. What kind of video art do i like? what caught my imagination. To be honest video art is one of my least favourite mediums, as a viewer, in the past I've often perceived it as being quite pretentious so this will be an interesting route and not one I'm at all comfortable with.

I defiantly prefer to see it on a screen as an installation, the larger the better and over a couple of screens makes it more sculptural and immersive, immediately more impressive no matter what the content is, its perceived as an important work because of the scale and space dedicated to it. I cannot stand the TVs with head phone set ups that they so often have. It feels like a chore, its not fun and i feel like a kid on a school trip. I don't want to share head phones with the public  and there's just not a real immersive feel,  it purely economical. 

How do we help people who are suffering right now?? 

History is a baggage. Go back to the past to forgive ourselves, torment, judge. Should be for purpose of healing and learning