I've spent the last week interpreting for Tatsuo Miyajima at the MCA. I've mostly been covering his speeches, lecture and Q&A sessions with the public as well as interviews with journalists.
It's quite an elaborate contemporary art exhibition as yo'd likely to see and it is the most comprehensive retrospective of an artist who has been working around the world for 30years. I had the good fortune of being able to spend some time with him and learn a whole lot about his practice as well as get a feel for his concepts. If you know where he's coming from, he is theist perspicacious artist as you will ever come across. He is not obscure and hard to understand, his work really does speak to his thinking, which is amazingly crystal clear.
The stand out works are the installation rooms 'Arrow of Time' and 'Mega Death'. You have to experience the extraordinary moment when all the lights go out in the latter to feel what Obi Wan Kenobi felt inStar Wars when Alderaan got blown up by the Death Star.
It's that amazing.
I recommend everybody to go check it out. I know there's a sticker price of $22 for the ticket, but it's well worth it. It's an tremendously broad retrospective of an artist who has been at the cutting edge of contemporary art for three decades. Do yourselves a favour and check it out.
'Hacker'
A little film about big ideas. There have been a number of films and TV shows connecting banking as targets of hacking. It stands to reason that if you want to change the status quo, the first thing you might consider is destroying banking. Of course, no amount of bank robberies in America's colourful past has exactly accomplished anything along those goals, so it's hard to really get on board with this notion that somehow, hacking banks and destroying the basis of the financial system might lead to a more egalitarian world. Short that, hacking in this context remains the provenance of cybercriminals
Somewhere behind all the fantasies lies the truth that cybercriminals out there are making a lot of money skimming off unsuspecting credit card users. It's a little bleak that the affairs of humanities can come down to movements of money, but on some level that's what has become of our lives, and so if money as a system can be hacked, our lives can equally be hacked, and so there is only a kind of anomie and anarchy that gets ushered in. It's very strange picaresque of a movie.
The main character is hard to like. The mistakes he makes along the way are annoying. As potboilers go, it's pretty ordinary.
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