Life is Art. Art is Life. I am Art. Art am I

The demand to provide a temporary art exhibition at the Museum of Unreason has inspired a debate on art. I naturally assume that anyone who works in a museum is open to the beauty that the world offers us, but our thinking seems limited. The staff came up with local art group/school competition/public curation of the art in storage. Ludicrous ideas all. What about hanging everything upside down and pretending to be Australian? Or smashing up several artworks in the gallery to represent the fragmentary nature of memory (not my idea - but a brilliant one). In the end I have decided to curate a special art exhibition called, 'ME' to tell the a day in the life of ME.

Morning

The Unmade Bed, Imogen Cunningham 1957 Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Regular Day at the Museum

Work, Ford Maddox Brown, 1863, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Lunch

Joel Penkman, 2011

which merges into Afternoon Tea

Tea Time (Woman with a Teaspoon), Jean Metzinger, 1911

closely followed by the Pub

Cranbrook Arms, Rob Adam 2011 (http://www.treeshark.com/treeblog/?p=335)

Home at last???

Switch, 1994, Rachael Whiteread

Lights  - eventually

Two Candles, 1982, Gerhard Richter

Oops left the gas on

 Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View,1991, Cornelia Parker

Resulting in

Piss Flowers (5) 1991-1992, Helen Chadwick

What have we learned from this? Live life, experience life, record it in whatever way you want and celebrate it. In my view, if Helen Chadwick can take plaster casts of urination to create things of exquisite beauty then the only thing that is limiting us is our imaginations. Oh and also most of the imaginative art is being done by women - just think what could have been produced had we given them the vote 5 years earlier.

Have you come across a great idea in a cultural venue? Let me know so the Museum can copy it and I can claim it as my idea -because nobody will let me borrow these paintings...boo.