Visit to Mona - Part One

                                        What is Mona - ?


If you have no idea what Mona is, I have prepared a link for you : 

 http://tinyurl.com/mjw2pc8



What is/was a visit to Mona Like  ? (for Stephen Fryc)

                                     P A R T       O N E 

I was going to make a two post blog posting. The good parts (of Mona ) Part One and Part Two, the bad points of Mona.

But I have changed it. Now it will be ( still a two part posting ) but the parts will be :

PART ONE (This Part )  The good and bad of Mona

PART TWO (Yet to be posted) The ferry ride to Mona.

So here it is : The Good and Bad of Mona.

The ferry ride was good (see part two )

Mona was good and bad. The good : WAIT Can you tell I am toying with                              words ?
                  Can you ?                         Welcome to Mona.

         Mona Toys with your Head.

                                     I will stop with toy words now. 


After the ferry ride, I clambered up the 99 steps and found myself in Mona. 

Three hours later I was hurrying down the steps anxiously hoping to get the ferry back to Hobart. I wanted to escape, escape Mona as I had had had had enough. I felt sick.

My perception of Mona is a set of artistic works designed to "conjure" emotions and "invoke" expressions from the onlooker. It's mixed (genuine) Egyptian art with a series of artworks, some I could relate to, others seemed very low budget.

I was glad in the end I had seen what was mOna. But could you believe I missed the entire central point display ??? 

MonA seems very well funded. What is not so well thought out is the layout for people who have never been there. I found myself starting at the top two levels when I was supposed to start right at the bottom level. 

There was supposed to be an Alice in Wonderland central display. Like Alice I found myself looking at the looking glass well and truly, in a manner of speaking. I got extremely  and positively lost.

I was so glad my first impression of MoNA was not the bottom basement third floor. That floor was full of low-porn-type-depravity-from-the-70's. I don't want to remember MONa that way. What a really poor first impression most people must get. Shame on the artistic director. Shame.

The other two floors above contained probably what was a series of artworks owned by the owner of the whole museum. They were better.

Here is an art work I have named :




Piece be        with you :

People like art !

DONT

expect to like ANY ART at Mona

A life size library with no real character(s)

Herein lies a major problem in that the artwork naming was by an iphone app. So was the map of what to see. I love technology but I also love to read about an artwork on the artwork itself. I donned the earphones and iphone and prepared myself to listen about the history of an artwork. It was very self indulgent twaddle.

I stopped using the app. Yuk..................

Who know what this was called?

Mon a     is a termites nest. Its sort of underground, I got overwhelmed and very claustrophobic.

This artwork was a hideous seat/couch in the dark that barks like a dog when you go near it.

By now you have probably read enough.

You feel queasy.

That's my version of MOOna.

art that works

 by Stephen FRYC