Sunday, 26 June 2011

In cars

The first In Cars performance. Friday 24/6/11

In Cars is an MFA1 summer project/Gary Numan tribute act, devised as part of the Embassy galleries Annuale programme.

Monday, 20 June 2011

It's nice to get post...



A big thank you to Fiona, this very thoughtful postcard made my week.

Friday, 17 June 2011

Found Face Down and other works... (unofficial shots.)

For those who don't know...

For the duration of the 2011 Degree Show This Is Now will present a curated programme of daily exhibitions consisting of works selected and loaned from the various concurrent Degree Shows within the college. Held in a purpose-built temporary exhibition space located in the ECA Sculpture Court, the nine exhibitions, each curated by a different invited curator, will run from the 11-19th June. 

FOUND FACE DOWN 


AND OTHER WORKS

RACHEL BARRON
PATRIZIO BELCAMPO
EMMA O'SULLIVAN
MARTHA RICHARDSON
JOE SKILTON


Curated by Stuart David Fallon & Andrew Gannon


Rachel Barron: 1 of 8 bespoke posters
Found Face down installation shot
Emma O'Sullivan: Sandbag

Found Face down installation shot
Patrizio Belcampo: Jean-Philippe
Patrizio Belcampo: Et ne nos inducas in temptationem
Martha Richardson: Untittled (detail)

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Thoughts about posters...

The point of the poster documents is that they are not an end product of the work but a separate strand. They are not attempts at accurate representation of the performance works but merely pointers to or reminders of them. Discussion about the performances that the posters may bring about are just as valid as documents as the posters themselves, and perhaps more interesting.


The posters are a deliberate attempt to side step traditional documentary methods, e.g. photographs and videos, which may allude to represent work in a more direct or honest way but do not. Whilst at the same time an acknowledgment of the need to represent temporal work in real life, i.e. in exhibitions, journals and, (most relevantly,) assessments.


While I have used videos of performances on my website and in my recent end of semester assessment, I have no intention of exhibiting work as video or photograph. I believe that the posters can be sufficiently not the work to stand as a pointer to the work. The posters are akin to gig merchandise in a lot of respects.


One concern is whether the posters are sufficiently not the work enough... If the posters are like 'merch' should they contain other information. i.e. website address, more explicate information about the works location etc? can I incorporate at text into all the posters that explains their nature, (their not workness,) more clearly but without being didactic? Is less more in this case? does less variety make the message clearer?


While I need to resolve these issues I feel I need to do it quickly, after all this is not the work... and I am much more interested in that.