A Revolution of the Ordinary: Nuart Aberdeen 2018

When Martyn Reed of the esteemed and renowned Nuart Festival set the theme for this year’s Nuart Aberdeen, “A Revolution of the Ordinary,” I had a feeling of both elation and defeat. And to be honest, I wrote a rather ranting, sort-of-disappointed-in-the-21st-Century-and-all-its-social-revolution-mechanisms essay about what I thought was supposed to be our (the people’s) controlled destiny of how we communicate with each other. Our “ordinary” lives were going to become “extraordinary” through new platforms of communication, public art, and the democratization of critique and gatekeeper cultures. You can read that rant here.