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Answer: I had a pretty, pretty, bad year because having chosen to go to the Central School and having had five years of art school, and knowing how art schools work to a certain extent, it was you know, who are you there for, are you there for the teachers? Are you there, you know there's a whole kind of sub-culture in most colleges really. I sort of slightly wised up to that and I thought I'm not going to waste two years or even three years just being taught. IÕ?m going to question, I'm going to find ways, because the whole notion of going there, the whole reason for going there was just to get some background and to try and experiment. Basically they were teaching me to make scenery [laughs] and there was a sort of the meeting of different generations, different ideas, and I was much, much more, you know I would slink off into the workshop and beat lumps of lead and stick them onto mounds of sand, you know then melt glue all over them and stick some flags in, you know, and that would be Tamburlaine. And I was told by the head of the department and the head of the costume department that I shouldn't really waste my time and that I should probably move on to a more lucrative career in being a postman or something you know. So I took their advice and I left at the end of the first year because I believed there was little point in being in a place if it was so institutionalised and so set in it's ways that it, you know, that it wasn't prepared to allow students to really do the thing that's most important to do which is to use your imagination, because it's the only time there's the freedom to invent in that way and it's perfectly legitimate to get it wrong. |
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DS_16_05_02 (2xmini DV tape) |
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This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London. |
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4 minutes 00.08 seconds |
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