Find an artwork that you have an immediate negative or ambivalent reaction to. Why does the artwork make you feel this way? What do you think the artist was trying to do?
"The DRIFTERS PROJECT, begun by Pam Longobardi in 2006 after seeing the mountainous piles of plastic the ocean was regurgitating on remote Hawaiian beaches, has worked directly through local sponsorship, small grant support and personal expenditure by cleaning beaches and working with communities in Beijing, China (NY Arts Beijing, 2008); in Atlanta, "
I mentioned this in class when we were talking about how people are socialize to take up space (or not).
From the site description: "Men love to take up so much space and spread their legs while sitting down but it's because they're saving room for cats! Duh!"
I think that the authors were trying to be absurd in a wacky sort of way in their depiction of educational spaces in 2020. But I have to agree with Laura that it did seem to venture more toward "frankly obscene." And this because the tone was not consistent. They did not keep this lighthearted absurdist viewpoint and instead seemed to return to "academic" style writing. This was confusing and seemed to minimize their points (even though I found many of them spot on).