victoria meyers

Even if it throws you to the fire

hellomargot — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:21:50 +0000

Niki and the Dove, DJ ease my mind

hellomargot — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:38:18 +0000

I love this song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnexkG4RrtA&ob=av2e

The 2012 Oxford Literary Festival

hellomargot — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:31:04 +0000

I recently arrived back from a month-long holiday in Denmark, France and England. The Oxford Literary Festival was the main reason for my travel. I had a brilliant time. I will write about the experience in full. But for now, I will let Richard say what I will later attempt to add to (in bit parts, and not nearly one-sixteenth as well). Please enjoy www.oxlitfest.blogspot.com.au/.

The History of Consciousness

hellomargot — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:24:20 +0000

In my early 20′s I was living every university holiday in Northern California’s Santa Cruz (from 1997-1999) visiting David. I wanted to enroll in a PhD course titled The History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. The beautiful university grounds were perched graciously on the hills of Santa Cruz, with exceptionally beautiful views over Monterey Bay. Here is an extract to describe the course:

Although history of consciousness does not have formal tracks, it does emphasize a variety of topics and approaches in its seminars and research pursuits. Reflecting a serious concern for social, historical, and cultural theories, these areas of research can be most succinctly identified as studies at the intersection of race, sexuality, and gender; global capitalism and cultural process; psychoanalytic and semiotic theories of the image; science and technology studies; theories and histories of religion; and social movements.

Bernard likes the night-time, he likes to boogie

hellomargot — Sun, 20 May 2012 22:20:04 +0000

I like old-horror films. I like Dracula music. That is balanced out with a love of bush poetry, bush walking, country houses, farm animals, ribbons, all things pretty. It goes without saying, whiskers on kittens. Kittens and cats in general, in fact. Especially big cats. I love big, gigantically fluffy and heavy cats, like The Ragdoll. It must be said no cat comes close to being the best cat, quite like your own. I won’t say too much except that my cat is of course unbeatably cute, intelligent and has no annoying traits. He has this uncanny knack of making anyone who visits our house become like a six year old girl. They want to take him home. They shrink to their knees as though they are partaking in a divinity. I think if he were a human, Bern would be down with entering into a committed relationship with Taylor Swift after the little heart-breaker has a run-away-love-affair-fling with Claudia Schiffer, cruising across America in their sexy 1970s Corvette.

Marina Abramović

hellomargot — Sun, 20 May 2012 10:44:58 +0000

One of the greatest art experiences I’ve had was in March 2010 at MOMA when Marina Abramović performed The Artist is present. It is an experience that I need to write about in length, and to examine (like I have with other artists on my blog). The exhibition upstairs was a retrospective on her life, and incorporated a live performance art curated piece with two naked artists standing closely facing each other, whose bodies you, the viewer, needed to squeeze past, in order to get into the next room. You could also choose not to do it – but even the choice or the decision and the process of that going through your mind – was (to my mind) part of the performance. The audience was part of the performance in The Artist is present and they were also part of it as they squeezed through a gap between two naked people. My favourite work of Abramovic’s is The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, in which she and her husband walked the Great Wall of China over 90 days to meet in the middle and say goodbye forever.

DJ, ease my mind

hellomargot — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:08:52 +0000

DJ, ease my mind

Eugène Carrière and Symbolism

hellomargot — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:08:53 +0000

Reblogged from victoria meyers:

In this discussion I examine the painting The First Communion, also known as The Bride, an oil on canvas completed in 1896 by Eugène Carrière, a French Symbolist painter, who lived from 1849 to 1906. The painting was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1963 as a bequest of Chester Dale, an American banker and patron of the arts.

Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass – formal analysis

hellomargot — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:58:28 +0000

Reblogged from victoria meyers:

Edgar Degas’s Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass (ca. 1882–85 oil on canvas). Havemeyer Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In this image, Degas has used strongly contrasted the white tutu against the dark brown wood panel of the wall. This glimpse, through Degas’s eyes, of a ballet rehersal – a world that is usually only available to view in its final perfected state, with a ticket, is intriguing and real.

Albrecht von Alvensleben

hellomargot — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:57:44 +0000

Reblogged from victoria meyers:

Albrecht von Alvensleben is a self-taught photographer, born in 1984, in Swakopmund, Namibia, South Africa. At the age of five, von Alvensleben and his family moved to Northern Germany. After high school in Waterford, Ireland, von Alvensleben studied architecture at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts before transferring in his final year to New York City’s Cooper Union School of Architecture in August 2009, with a full tuition scholarship.