@AThirty4 - Bite!

For some time now I have been following and trying to fathom out the artworks placed around Oxford by the artist calling themselves @Athirty4.

I've been toying for a while with making videos rather than writing about art - it seems inevitable in this age of YouTube and other social media that people want content fed to them rather than bothering to read reviews and so on.

So when I heard that @Athirty4 was going to have an exhibition in a gallery, I threw caution to the wind and decided to make my own documentary about them and send it into the gallery.

I had no idea what anyone would make of it, but rather than put it up on YouTube and submit my efforts to the algorithm gods and try to battle against clickbait and gaming streams, I felt that some sort of guerilla marketing might be worth a try.

I attended the private view and to my amazement my video appears to actually be part of the show. I guess I have to thank the Cornerstone Arts Centre for putting it in as part of the exhibition - I'm not sure really as I wasn't recognised by anyone which was a bit strange.

It also wasn't obvious if the artist was in residence at the private view, and so it was obviously disappointing not to meet @Athirty4. But there is a "meet the artist" event coming up which I am thinking of attending.

At the end of the exhibition I will put my video on YouTube and link it from here, but for now I'd urge you to get to the Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot, UK, to see "Bite!" for yourself. I am still pondering what it means to see the art of the street in captivity in a gallery, but I will write a review soon.