As this blog has just got a bit more public I thought I should stop writing in such a coded way so I'm going to explain a strand of the work at Artemis. Me and Kate felt a bit sad that lots of the paintings in the picture store never get out. This is because of loads of issues around hanging and PFI schools and stuff like that. When I first started going into schools and saw the kids doing work around Lowery, Wharhole or Kandinsky I thought this was great as they are all great artists and their work provides fantastic starting points. 8 years later I realised that schools actually only do work around these three artists and consequently their status is raised to amazing heights - the only three artist who ever lived. Anyway there is some great stuff stacked in the racking at Artemis and we thought it would be good to get some of it up on the wall at Westpark.
We had an idea to link pictures to the outside world by taking pictures on our mobile phones - quite random things inspired by a motif or colour or idea - this picture would then link to our next selected picture which would send us back out into the world to find the next link. We decided that the show should have no written interpretation and we would print our phone pictures up phone size and have them hung between the pictures. This idea came quickly and was easy and we didn't argue about it and it evolved from both of us - just like when we work on a joint community or education project - it is a collaboration and may need tweaking here and there but is strong clean and doable. This is interesting for the project as it demonstrates another way of working for us and helps us to reflect on the personal and the shared.
Anyway the first picture was chosen as it reminded me of Kates dissertation I'd just read about growing the countryside and it was about imposing order - which is what we do. My phone picture is from a Map found in the house of a friend who is a dry stone Waller the bit in read is the section he is repairing next week - it made me think about maps and the way we can interact with the landscape.
1 comment:
i love his jig!
i wonder if we should have a same starting point and see where we both go as you said on the phone, it would suit the corridors at artforms.
although i like the idea of selecting the next image togehter as a proper collaboration?
Also dont want it to be like the girl who presented on friday and it all becomes wishy washy.i would like us to document the process, even if it is a sentence for each choice as you have written on the blog.?
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