Liverpool.

Ventured to Liverpool today. I went to look at the Glam exhibition in the Liverpool Tate Gallery first. I felt like it was quite portentous and I always had the feeling that the invigilators were suspicious of me. But perhaps that's just my own paranoia playing up on me. The booths which hosted video projections were quite good as the black walls allowed full focus on the screen. However, some of the video pieces presented via TVs had their audios lost through the muffled noise throughout the space. I particularly like the room full of an installation that looked like a party from the era had just occurred  as well as the work by Richard Hamilton. The use of coloured paint on some of the walls brought out the power of colour and literal 'glam' of the era, however I left feeling more like I had been to a museum than an art gallery, with the many articles and items from the time overshadowing the artworks.

I also visited the Liverpool Bluecoat in order to see Mark Leckey's 'The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things'. This exhibition I found particularly interesting. The arrangement of otherwise unrelated items/ objects/ works came together to create narratives. The gallery presented oddities as norms to represent a bigger picture of the world. Fact and fiction blurred into one as I progressed through the rooms. I left the gallery with a feeling of seeing the monstrous deformity of the world.