steve and i have now selected all the artwrks from artemis, and have some linkage photos left to get, but we need to write a statement for the entrance way, i have started this and steve suggested blogging it, so here it is, we would like comments please. or additions. cheers
LINKAGE
This exhibition includes 35 examples of artwork from the collection at Artemis, interlinked with images Kate and Steve have taken on their mobile phones.
The mobile phone is omnipresent in contemporary life and used to record: passing moments; significant discoveries or random stumblings. These digital files are often never downloaded, forwarded, or printed out, remaining within the device, building into an archive of captured moments. We accumulate this temporary collection, often discarding it as we change phones, all without significant consideration.
As artists, Kate and Steve are interested in collections and as such have utilised their mobile phones to enable a journey through the Artemis collection and provide an insight into their practice. Like a game of Chinese whispers, we can move from one image to the next observing the lateral ponderings.
Artists Art and Artefacts sees artists Steve Pool and Kate Genever working on a year long, Arts Council England funded, project at Artemis: Education Leeds artefact loan service. Working both individually and collaboratively the artists are researching, exploring and responding to Artemis’ collection of over 10,000 artefacts.
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I will think about this tommorow I think we should perhaps layer the text so we have a very simple intro maybe 40-50 words and then a bit of a narrative bit about why phones and why links to the outside world - I'll do a bit in the morrow
can we have something in there about, art works links to real world, and how they can make us think about that differently. ALso about audience engagemnet, and stuff like we said at lunch, practicalising a process, which many see as dence, -ie curated show the big question why.
Like the idea of simple intro and then going for it - is the moble phone like the artist's notebook that we all did as students - that was more than a sketchpad because we all went off into self-referential daydreams in them. with regards to random images, likes and dislikes are often deepseated within the indiviual but often others don't get it...?
Lou
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