Tate Modern visit notes

• Hito Steyerl, How To Not Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational
• Funny, bizarre, surreal, left me feeling like I had understood it and then I realised there was nothing to be understood. Maybe. Felt like art that isn't so much pushing you to think about something so much as it just telling you about something they had been thinking about. A conversation to be started if you wanted, but mostly something to listen to and nod your head. Complicated but accessible, an amazing way of using tone of voice to attract people.

• Start Here Gallery
• A gallery space obviously designed to attract those not used to art, with encouragement and simplifications and an ease of "you can think whatever you like to about art". 
• I wasn't entirely sure if it was directed more for children or possibly adults too but it wasn't overly patronising in tone.
• This would have been a good thing to talk about in last year's COP essay!
• Karel Appel + Cobra movement
• there was a really good quote about painting / making work like children that would have been very useful / interesting but I am yet to find it again. However these are a cool bunch to look at in regards to intuitive image making / childlike creation / limitations of the figurative etc