Later today I'm going to be doing a bit of recording. The first installment of a new audio series to accompany one of my projects for the year - The Museum of Tat. We're going to be improvising the text and, though I have some idea where I want to go, it could move in almost any direction. Most of the material for this project will go on the sister blog - Museum of Tat - but I will talk about how the production side of things happen here.
What is the The Museum of Tat going to be about? Well, it's about our culture, it's about how we cherish somethings and hate other - by using the word tat, we make a value judgement. But is what we call tat something really worthless? Some people love their tat. They can't get enough of it.
And then there's the question - how do we define tat? As opposed to, say, kitsch. Where do the boundaries lie?
And then there's the other question - what is the price of tat? Because, to give us our tat, resources are spent, workers exploited, people - literally - die to give us it.
And then there's the straightforward fun in wandering round charity shops looking for tat and just wondering - what the hell were they thinking?
So, lots of angles. We'll see where we go.
More soon...
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