Grosse in TFAM

22/02/2007
University of Auckland is having its orientation week to welcome new as well as returning students, and I am so supposed to go – having said that, it’s not hard to work out that I have been lazy. It’s a disease; I am now sommeil-some.

There are so many tasks to do in my diary that make me feel like I have been having a LIFE. Quite to the contrary, I have been losing it, so much of it. Ask me how my life has been, ‘nothing’ is most likely the response you would get. Or, “I have been browsing through the university website and wondering what I could do to master intellects-at-work.” Even though I could easily book a course online and go to the orientation lectures, I feel it’s against my anti-social nature and I’d rather stay truthful.

Talked to Shirly last night about the general arty-farty issues. He pointed out that the problems I thought I was facing were merely the tip of an ice-berg in any society, whereas the art circles in Taipei/Asia would have to deal with more media-related and political subjects. Having him as a connection to the Taipei artworld somehow makes me feel at ease – like, yea, I am not totally disconnected, however distant the relationship I seem to have with the New Zealand art scene. What is Art? What does it have to do with me? Does it make me happy? And what is the point in thinking that I am related in the circle at all? “Knowing the inner-workings of the circle, you just have to be them to beat them!”

If I had stayed in Taiwan long enough I would have been able to for once see Grosse’s work and feel great. I am no artist as to having the authority in judging what good or bad art is, yet I know what sort of art pleases me and the pleasure I get from seeing the works by my preferred artists is simply a feast – a feast I can hardly get being in New Zealand.
http://www.katharinagrosse.com/work.php?id=865&cat=Taipei+Fine+Arts+Museum

All that depression should soon vanish when I start doing some art – if i ever would.