by Jon Lackman | 21 February 2007 | Conferences
Blogger mayhem writes: “I went to the Feminist Art Project seminar for the College Art Association conference. Initially I’d had vague dreams of swanning around with little business cards, networking and sussing out a post-doc. But – I have days where everything is too much. i can barely meet people in the eye – let alone run my own marketing campaign. sometimes I wish I was doing a PhD in mathematics so I’d have an excuse to act like I had aspergers……
some of the talks were OK, some were good, some were tedious, a couple were brilliant. surrounded by affluent successful earnest bookish women – I felt not unlike Jean Louis Barrault in Les Enfants Du Paradis – the bit at the end when he’s running around a sea of clowns – and it was a bit scary… is this what I am? what I want to be?
Of course I wear less black and less designer clothing than feminist art historians. I wear bright colours and take my clothes off with people dressed in gorilla suits. I felt extremely uncomfortable in the Hilton hotel and tend to feel awkward and yuckky wherever I see the dead animal brigade (those freaky perfumed women clad in carcass skins – I’m not an animal libber – but I find fur coats… ABJECT). I feel more in common with the stretched out stitched up pelts than the freaky beings within them.
maybe i’ve been working too hard”
