You Can Tell I Went to School on a Small Yellow Bus

Hello and welcome! This is Duckstaposition, a blog run for and by the Mount Allison Fine Arts department graduating (hopefully) class of 2013.

One of the requirements of a BFA at Mt. A, for those not in the know, is the completion of a Seminar course in the fall semester of our final, fourth year. Google, the finest of latter day prophets, tells us that a seminar is defined in this way:

sem·i·nar/ˈseməˌnär/

Noun:

A conference or other meeting for discussion or training. A class at a college or university in which a topic is discussed by a teacher and a small group of students.

So what we do is discuss. What we discuss is a little harder to define and pin down, but it runs the gamut from the contemporary art world to our own artistic practices, and a bunch of strange minutia in between.

Hopefully Duckstaposition can be an outlet to both further the discussions we foster in class and bring other people (the ~*internet*~) to them, to engage and insert new voices. Or maybe nobody will read this and it will fall into the cavernous pit that is the blogosphere. Either way, maintaining this blog has been required of us by our fearless leader Jerry Ropson, so we have to do it.

That aside, however, I really think that this blog is a great opportunity for us. To write down what we sometimes fail to articulate in class, to share ideas, to talk about Madonna or just to engage in this POST-POSTMODERN (to be defined shortly - I'm looking at you, Jamie Fagan) world.

So, if you're reading this, thanks! You have just legitimised us. Nice. Let us know what you think, and I know that at least half of us* apologise for our silly, Sackville-centric, duck-themed name.

- Claire, BLOGMASTER Ph. D

*I am not one of that half - I think it's awesome and I also think "APOLOGISE FOR NOTHING", which is a thing that I remind myself several times a day.