On 22th of May 2014 the first degree show of CSM opened at Granary Building at King's Cross. It took ages to construct the exhibition. I would like to say that it was a great effort to realise all these and well done everyone who made it come to life. The scale of the exhibition is huge and it full fills the building's ground and third floors. The degrees shown their works were; BA Fine Art, MA Art and Science, MA Fine Art, MA Phtography, MRes Art: Exhibition Studies, MRes Art: Moving Image, MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy. I do not know the exact number of the students but the exhibition was on a museum scale.
It is really hard to combine different themes and disciplines in one exhibition. And if the exhibition is this big in scale, it is hard to follow or capture the pieces individually. And when there is no common theme it becomes more complicated to watch. When it comes to a point that promoting a commercial structure, CSM is a perfect example. But with this exhibition it is not quite successful. Although the exhibition was presented as a white cube experience and professionally fitted, it was not whole and the works were not that quality I must say. And just because of the chaos of representation the good works could have been skipped easily. Some sites did have feeling of still under construction. The day after the private view before noon, most of the exhibition was abandoned and the videos were not on the run. It might be the night before party fused it. But as the period of the exhibition was short, everyday counts.
The context of the works were mainly based on violence and sexuality. This might well be the effect of everyday consumer society surrounds the students. Or it might well be the populistic attitudes to become a part of the system as they graduate. It was a little bit disturbing to see the tense context built on these themes. Or it can be that I constantly had to listen to the video that was from a audition of sex sounds when I was working at school.
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