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11. In your opinion, what was the strongest work in the exhibition
and why?
A couple of things stood out for me. ‘What’s Cooking Grandma?’ just the way
that they approach it. When you hear them talk about it and when you actually
see some of the videos and stuff it’s a kind of ‘warm and fuzzy’ project I think. It
makes you kind of feel good and it has something that everyone can identify
with. I think that the ‘Holy Ghost’ chairs are really interesting because of their
commercial potential and I’m quite interested in small scale production and
stuff like that. I think that the fact that they are using existing forms and
changing them is important too. Tavs’ work because you see the evidence of the
tool, craft and the digital which I think they work really nice. He’s not forcing
anything one way or the other. He’s really working with what the technology
allows him to do and what the material allows him to do. It seems like a really
natural way of working for someone who is working across a couple of
disciplines and he seems to approach it in a really natural way. I think they
were all very strong.
12. In your opinion, what was the weakest work in the exhibition and
why?
I would say probably me in there with the rest of the stuff it felt kind of
unfinished I suppose and it felt even more so I think when it went in there. I
was quite disappointed with Usman Haque I don’t know what I was expecting
but it didn’t live up to my expectation.
13. Were you surprised by any work in the show? Why?
Human Beans.
14. Did you think the exhibition was coherent?
Surprisingly so, I think I wasn’t expecting it to be as coherent I thought that it
would have been a bit disjointed but it was quite coherent. It was all the kind of
stuff that I would read about and be interested in and all of a sudden it was
there in one place.
15. How would you sum up the core theme of the exhibition?
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