Trip to the GOMA

Friday, July 25th:

Today, my friend and I went to the Gallery of Modern Art (known as the GOMA) in Brisbane. We saw a couple of really awesome exhibits.

What a nice day to go to a museum LOLOL

Before I get to the exhibits, let's first discuss the bathroom situation. So when I first got there, I thought to myself Dang, I gotta pee. So obviously I walked in the direction towards the restrooms. On the way to the bathroom, however, I got a little distracted. Just outside of the bathrooms, there was a dark, square lobby area that was projecting a film on a big blank wall. I decided to take a moment to watch it. I watched for a few seconds, when finally, I realized that it was video of a McDonald's being completely flooded with water, shot from a rotation of various angles and points of view. My first thought was Woah that's kinda cool and interesting. BUT THEN, I thought to myself, OMG THIS IS REALLY MAKING ME HAVE TO PEE (cuz I was legitimately just watching smooth, flowing water filling the whole screen, plus the water fall sound effects were not helping). So unfortunately, as much as I realllllly wanted to keep watching the flooding McDonalds, my body won and I finished my initial journey into the bathroom. While I peed,  I debated whether or not they did that on purpose. Oh, the cruel, cruel curators. Also, the sinks (or lack of sinks) were interesting. Instead of there being a bowl built into the counter top, it was just a countertop that was slanted away from the hand-washer, so it all pooled and drained on the farther side of the counter. Pretty chill stuff.

A video of a McDonald's casually flooding

"Where is the sink?" I think to myself.

Me and Art

The first exhibit we went to an exhibit called Harvest. Pretty much it was an exhibit about food and art, or like, food as art. Or making statements about food in an artsy way. Regardless, it was about food and art. Some of the pieces were very interesting and it was a really cool exhibit.

Harvest: Art, Film, and Fuudz

An original bottle of Coca-Cola?

Photography of food as weapons #SoMeaningful

From far away its art...

...But close up, it's just silver wear and peppers

really cool art piece about introduction to the work place

soooooo pretty!!!!

animals covered in meat/beef packaging...kinda creepy

There was also an exhibit about music and stuff, but I didn't find it that exhilarating. Except, there was a really cool guitar and a line of metronomes all going at the same time (at different beats)...so that was....loud.

Largest guitar I've ever seen

SO MANY METRONOMES!!!

Then there was an aboriginal art exhibit and I discovered that I LOVE basket weaving (actually, allll the weaving was cool). #talent

Woven baskets!!!

Another woven thingy

me and all my woven friends

Then there was a weird video of a woman using a harness on her face with pencils attached to make "art."

Girl using face to hold her pencils...lol art

 There was a really cool piece that was hands on in which you put on head phones and could take a piece of metal (whose other end was attached to some contraption) and touch it to different parts of a spiral on the wall and it would make different sounds at different frequencies/pitches. I looked really silly using this one because it legit just looks like you are trying to listen to the wall by feeling it. So awkward to watch someone doing it, but so cool to use!!

me using art to make sounds

Now we got to my FAVORITE part of the museum. It was an exhibit called "Pattern Bandits" and it consisted of a few brightly colored rooms with cool interactive things to do. For example, there was a hallway with lots of cameras that you could stand in front of and then see yourself on various little screens as a cool kaleidoscopic image. Also, there was a checkered room with a really simple dance party of silly looking people projected on one of the screens. Naturally, I jumped right in and started dancing along with them. Then there was another room with some cool art projects that people could do. Okay, confession: the whole exhibit was for children/families, but whatever. It was fun. No regrets.

I AM A PATTERN BANDIT!!

Cool kaleidoscope hallway

tripppppyyy

me joining into the dance party

I never miss an opportunity to fake DJ

my beautiful art moving onto bigger and better things

After the GOMA, we went to get some smoothies. Sooooo delicious. They also had a bunch of yummy looking desserts so I hope I go back at some point to try them!

such good smoothies that we got in the city