Comments on: Laurel Nakadate: Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2009/05/04/laurel-nakadate-fever-dreams-at-the-crystal-motel/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:21:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Olivia Vaganov http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2009/05/04/laurel-nakadate-fever-dreams-at-the-crystal-motel/comment-page-1/#comment-28967 Olivia Vaganov Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:38:25 +0000 http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/?p=2029#comment-28967 I recently came across a blog post that discussed Laurel Nakadate’s current exhibit at the Leslie Tonkonow gallery: http://wink-blog.com/2009/06/22/three-exhibits-worth-seeing/. I recently came across a blog post that discussed Laurel Nakadate’s current exhibit at the Leslie Tonkonow gallery: http://wink-blog.com/2009/06/22/three-exhibits-worth-seeing/.

]]> By: Shane Godfrey http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2009/05/04/laurel-nakadate-fever-dreams-at-the-crystal-motel/comment-page-1/#comment-25979 Shane Godfrey Fri, 08 May 2009 21:53:27 +0000 http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/?p=2029#comment-25979 I am still not totally okay with this work. There is something about the lack of ownership in her prettygirlness that gets to me. She came and spoke at my school recently and she made me a little sick. She plays with these men and never really acknowledges that problem. I feel like if a man made this project, we would never hear about it. There would be too much talk about the man demeaning the woman and it would never get into an art context, but she can so easily avoid it being that she is a woman it makes it more difficult to bring up. Unfortunately, that is sort of why I like the work. She activates the viewers response that what we are presented with is messed up, but why? And is that only our baggage makes us think that the work is potentially as messed up as we think it is? I am still not totally okay with this work. There is something about the lack of ownership in her prettygirlness that gets to me. She came and spoke at my school recently and she made me a little sick. She plays with these men and never really acknowledges that problem. I feel like if a man made this project, we would never hear about it. There would be too much talk about the man demeaning the woman and it would never get into an art context, but she can so easily avoid it being that she is a woman it makes it more difficult to bring up.

Unfortunately, that is sort of why I like the work. She activates the viewers response that what we are presented with is messed up, but why? And is that only our baggage makes us think that the work is potentially as messed up as we think it is?

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