Category Archives: Critical Collaborative Methods

Crit. Collab. Filming, 1:1 Tutorials, Beaconsfield Exhibition, Seminar

Critical Collaborative Methods Filming

Last night my group went to Q club and gained the footage for the video we will be showing in our seminar next Monday.

1:1 Tutorial

Today was started with a 1:1 tutorial with Tina. Anastasia and I explained how we planned to collaborate this term, to which Tina said that that will be twice as much work but we seemed up for challenge. Through the tutorial we developed our idea from focusing on one culture to focusing on many as we may come across as racist. Anastasia and I agreed that we would focus on the oppression of women in a different culture each week.

To begin with, we will be focusing on the oppression of Burmese woman through their neck rings.

Beaconsfield Exhibition

Artist lead organisation

Judith Dee – Minimal exhibition, workout art, frame of mind as art, ‘faze’ exhibition, helpful in setting up exhibition
Roberto Smith –  use of text, large scale, etching
Faze artists – painting in bacteria, memorised human rights and performed
Residency – derelict building got built up to ‘Tate’ standard
Lily Hartner – Performance Artist
Art and Compromise – speakers talk about they experience/ tackle compromise
Seminar
Today my tutorial group showed our presentations on the set of videos we were told to choose from. The artists that were chosen were:
  • Richard Serra 
  • Peter Campus
  • Andy Warhol
  • Gary Hill
  • Pipilotti Rist

Cupcake Sculpture, Critical Collaborative Meeting

Today I have thought about Bridge’s exhibition Autumn piece and have decided to recreate the pattern in a triangle through a sculpture of cupcakes in matching colours.

My Critical Collaborative group attended a meeting with our lecturer and contact Susanne Clausen to discuss our modified idea.

  • Social Choreography
  • More focus on movement
  • Changing in space, acting controversially
  • Visibility
  • Set of clear instructions
  • What reactions do we want?
  • Use of a similarity, of an object
  • Clothing underneath to conceal until we get inside
  • Turn signs into banners
  • Tea party, china tea set, table cloth, scones and jam
  • Set up tea party on dance floor and act until we are asked move by security
  • Run through before Monday

Clare Goodwin, Critical Collaborative Meeting, and Planning Gallery Visits

Today I attended the talk held by Clare Goodwin, a visiting artist:

  • Bowe Art Trust
  • Triangle Workshop – Takes artists out of studio and mixes them
  • Maureen Paley – Making contacts in foreign country
  • K3 Space – Zurich was in need of spaces
  • Working with other artists can be frustrating
  • Use of set studio space, pop-up spaces
  • Hard-edge painter – figurative, line, and colour, acrylic paint
  • Collect ties and scarfs for inspiration, use of charity shops
  • Portraits, named materials for paintings, titles are important
  • Get your own website
  • Different ways of marking out spaces in galleries, etc.
  • Additions to paintings: scarves draped across gallery floor space.
  • Use of language of shape, colour, and tone to suggest interaction
  • Get to know writers. Who you know and who can do it for you.
  • Networking from galleries is changing to digital communication
  • Supernormal Festival
  • Internships are useful.

After the talk, my Critical Collaborative Methods group met up and planned a schedule for us to complete our project successfully in time.

  • Modified our idea to address the night scene dress code by changing the location and medium to inside a club and film to present in the seminar on 27th Jan.
  • Use of mobile phones and video camera to record footage to recreate technological use in clubs.
  • Dress in a conservative manner (bland, boring, not provocative) but acting as ourselves, seeing what effect clothes have on how we act.
  • Create a mock-umentary through film and photography.
  • Use of signs and questionnaires to highlight contrast and involve the public.

I have planned to start the year off with a selection of gallery visits this weekend.