‘I Object’ Ian Hislop’s search for Dissent at the British Museum. Date visited Wednesday 03/October/2018.
“History, as somebody wise once said, is just one damned thing after another. But is it really? Who decides what is ‘history’?
Traditionally, the answer is ‘the winners’. But in this exhibition we’re setting out to investigate what the other people had to say – the downtrodden, the forgotten, the protestors. They left their marks on objects, just as the official view has, and these dissenting objects are also to be found in the British Museum’s collection. You just need to know where to look…”
In this exhibition Hislop was allowing the world to see not just ‘the winners’ of history who have their things exhibited a lot of the time, but the underlining voice that may have placed a new perspective in the limelight of history.
These were items that challenge recorded history..the dissendant of established narrative and that presented different points of view”
“A glimpse of what it meant to be sub-verse” (a trouble maker)
A Penny for Your Thought
In the past forms of communication came in that of a penny. For it was a message that could spread of either normal or revolt converse and this was a form of the now face book feed of the past. This is why it is now illegal to deface money in general as it was banned in the past for spreading talk of the monarchy and highly religious figures such as the Pope.
I believe money to be similar of that of a plate when eating out. There is a relationship there when spending money that you will receive back other peoples money to eat of a plate that somebody else has eaten off makes the whole idea of shared dining a whole thing. But the idea that we don’t place story on where for instance a going may have been on its travels? this related hugely to the idea of my work as money is almost the plate of the craft world.
Hidden Meanings
For here are two examples of where people have hidden some meanings in their jewellery or ware to influence this idea of relationship with beliefs but in a time where those beliefs had to be a secret. On the left is a salt sprinkler that actually relates to Jesus with the rubys representing blood and the white gems representing purity. The idea was that in 1577 catholicism was banned and so people tried to still show their support to their beliefs in hidden context. The same with the ring of a king they believed in hidden until opened.
This is something i think i would like to play with. Secrecey and also the obvious which relates back to the idea of placing the reality of Stoke’s society at the moment onto the plates to implicate the idea of where their plates are coming from and also the provenance of it as a form of disguised pain.
BEING LITERAL
Yang Yongliang – Phantom Landscape
This is what i look about Yang Yongliang’s work. There is this subtle hint to replacing the dream like, adored traditional landscape paintings with the reality of its polluted and ridiculously populated streets. This plays on the idea of using art form in a way in which you think is normal local pottery but actually talks about the reality of a place in my case this will mean using Stoke design to talk about real Stoke.
Aunt Smoke 
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