Coming from Northern Ireland, I have never had the opportunity to visit Liverpool museums and art exhibitions. Our task this week was to visit a Liverpool 2012 Biennial Arts Festival building with this years theme of "Hospitality". We were assigned to visit the Unexpected Guest exhibition. During our exploration of the gallery, we found a vast amount of weird and wonderful artwork. However, I found 2 exhibitions brilliantly memorable. One featured plants picked from the sites of mass bombings. The message was that new life springs from death. The second, a video clip taken in china, screening on a white sheet of a drunken man staggering and falling in the middle of the street, with great danger of being run over. He falls down and lies in the road for nearly 6 minutes before he is assisted. This is a poignant video as it prompts you to question humanity.
Overall, I found the task incredibly interesting. Coming from an Art A-level, I understand that art can be a strange thing when left unexplained, but it can be thought-provoking and brilliant when given the time.
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