Protest!

please do not trivialise the Miner's Strike. (I refer to the link)

Hello,

I certainly wasn't intending to trivialise the miner's strike Para.

As part of the course the students are required to place their work in context of industry and society. Protest is a powerful medium to get a message across and it's important that they can draw comparisons between themselves and where this medium has been used effectively and perhaps more poignantly!

I've edited the text to qualify this.

Thanks!

Jeremy Deller's great. Read a bit more deeply before taking offense, Hobo.

I think Para's concerns were surrounding my original posting which didn't really qualify how this compared with Deller's work. I can see how he thought I was maybe a bit flippant, so I've editted the post to reflect that. I think it makes more sense now.

Thankyou, this is much clearer in its intent than the original post.

I disagree; blinds suck. Curtains ftw. :P

I don't honestly see why it's any of his business, seeing as it's not his blog and he flounced away from this site very publicly a few months ago.

You can't have it both ways Hobo, either shit or get off the pot.

But Rich, it's still a public blog and the post was made for comment. Hobo can quite reasonably be expected to comment.

Yep.

I posted this to FB because I thought it was interesting. We use this blog to document students' work as well as inviting an audience to discuss what they're doing and give feedback.

you're right, morning angerburst on my part, most unnecessary and rude. Apologies both to Gid and Hobo.

Seriously, I am entirely not a morning person.

anger bursts can make people accidentally speak their minds...

glad to see freedom of speech is still alive and well. Further to my original comment, I have nothing against Jeremy Deller's original work, I think it is a very powerful and emotive work of Art which raises awareness of the Miner's Strike, in which I was quite heavily involved, coming from a Yorkshire coalmining family and community, the latter being completely decimated by the Conservative Government under Margaret Thatcher. It seemed to me, before the link was edited, that the juxtaposition of Jeremy Deller's work against what appeared to be a fairly cliched student prank was in danger of trivialising of both Dellar's work and the strike itself. I did consider the implications of what I said before making the comment, and I feel the ensuing conversation I had with Beth via Facebook was both enlightening and constructive for both of us.