Unboxing ‘Community’ with Alex Frost

CSM Curation Students in Conversation with Artist Alex Frost at Paradise Row (3 May 2020).

I attended this event on 3rd of May 2022, below I have put down some notes and reflections. From the beginning of the talk, Alex Frost introduce some of his works and some key words discussion.

‘Community’, ‘Social Media’, ‘Time Investing’, ‘Slow Paste’. Social Media is a fast moving digital live and is a great place to break ‘Arts’ down to series, most importantly ‘No Wait!’. “Being an artist shouldn’t just be in the studio, sometimes human relations are a lot negative, social media works different way to different peoples, especially after pandemic is good to get people talk again.” (Frost, 2022). He also introduce that relationship with messiness can create some happiness within his work – ‘eat at your desk’, ‘eat on the train’. The inspiration of making these video arts are from early 1970s short snappy videos.

‘Not clear demonstrate Art’ is one the key idea when he create arts. ‘Not just show people and say oh that’s ART.’ One of the curation student asked him about the connection and difference between exhibiting art works on social media and gallery, Frost mentioned on social media is all about publicity, people come and go and you just have to let go a bit, unlike gallery people take it more serious.

From the comparison of two platform it reminds me of my project about event curation. Since the metaverse age begins, people treat digital platform more casual and physical ones formal.