For this weeks guest lecture was Tom Hackett. He is a sculptor and artist who's work is quite surrealist and is quite interactive. He tries to make all of his work interactive and enjoys it to see people take a lot of care of his work and looks after it as if it was their own. His work is always quite big and uses a lot of objects, he also likes hanging things, for instance his work where he hung buckets from an art museum and when he hung library codes from the ceiling of a former library. He has done a lot of work with rivers where he collects water after different time intervals e.g. 5 or 15 minutes. When he spoke about the his stories about his work they were very strange and quite odd, which is quite similar to a lot of his projects.
A lot of his projects are quite unique and quite strange which I guess is what surrealism is all about, but to be honest I didn't find him or his work that interesting. When I look at his work I find it to be very surreal which is exactly to sort of thing that he was going for. His work was very interesting all the strange ways he creates these truly bizarre sculptures and what he does with them e.g. with the dogs he walk with one down the street.
Overall I would say that he was quite and interesting person and his work was too but since it wasn't anything to do with photography I wasn't that interested in it much.
