Goldfish

I went to an exhibition at MAP called goldfish which was a exhibition where all the things in the gallery where controlled by a tank of goldfish. The controlled drawing machines, drums, music, and images all by them swimming across beams of light. From the point of view of the audiece this exhibition worked realy well as what you saw was random and would never be seen again. It was really interesting to see the thing that was creating the work and the things happening. It made the viewer question who makes the music and art we see and hear.

 

Atrium Gallery at St James Hospital

We have been give a large wall space at St James Hospital called the Atrium Gallery. Fine art 2nd year has been split into 4 groups to Curate, market, fund raise and to look after the logistics. I am one of the curators we have the task of decideing what goes in a where it goes. The Audience for this space is very intresting as it is primarily a none Art audience consisting of Patients and the visitors and hospital staff. For this reason and due to it being a hospital we are limited and have a criteria for the content of the work shown here. We are not alouded for example images of death or glamore. However none of the work has been made with the hospital as its intended audience so i think the exhibition may not work to well in its location. I think there will be an intrest in what is there and many people will enjoy it and come down to see it but i dont think they will relate to it as it has just been plonked in there.

 

195 Miles at PSL

I attended the closing off 195 miles at PSL this exhibition was a of collaborations of Leeds based artists working with artists from the whitechaple gallery london. I think the space makes a really nice space to show work in because of the hight ceilings, large windows and the industrial feel to the space. I liked Rory Mac Beth's work as it engaged the audience by intriguing them as things keep happening such as smoke coming out or a printer printing out sheets of paper which then where blowing about the gallery. One of the other artists had made cup cakes for visitors to take and eat while watching a video based on cakes as well i thought this was a interesting way to get people interested in your work and to feel engaged with it. 

Cases

I placed some of my small sculptures into a Perspex  case. I think the small one worked well and it adds to the work and makes it lot more 

interesting because it gives it that museum quality and the idea that it is real.  I showed this in a crit today and people thought it worked well because it makes it seem like the object has actually been taken and placed there fro

m another place and make is seem more real. I like how the view has to look in to view it madeit a more intriguing  and a more private view.

With the larger object this one based on a cigaret packet i don't think the 

case adds it takes away as u cant get in close and see the detail of the miniature. 

So i think there are pros and cons to using a perpex case but i like how it effects the small model so will see where this will take me and make models that will work in the case. 

BALTIC

I visited the Baltic before easter for the opening of two shows there A duck for Mr Darwin and Sarah Sze solo show Tilting Planet.

A duck for Mr darwin was a realy well curated exhibition putting together Works that look at evolution and natural selection it fetured works by Charles Avery, Marcus Coates s

everal other Artists. I liked how althow all the works where diffrent media and diffrent look compley they all worked real well together becausae of the underlineing theam of the work. The works where not fighting each other for attention from the view they all seemed to be one. This menat the view felt more at ease to wander around the exhibits i think and to go back and forth from one work to the next because they didnt all seem separated.

One Armed Snake by Charles Avery 2009

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Sarah Sze Tilted Planet

I have been realy intrested in Sarah Sze for a long time but have never been able to visit a show only seen it in books. The work is 100x better face to face. When you can walk around the work and get in real close and see the detalis it makes it better as u feel more like a viewer into her created worlds. I like how her work is mainly on the floor of the gallery this is a real intresting space as it is rarely looked at or used. This means everyone is looking down to view the work and it is not in there normal view when they see art. In this exhibition the only things that spoilt it for me was there was to many people and invidulaters looking over your sholder to stop you touching the work.

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Black Flags on London Bridge

This was an performance piece i saw in the news paper while in london. 8 photography students from Camberwell college or Art stood on London bridge with flags every morning at 8 till 9 for 5 days. They where trying to communicate with the commuters to the finical district.  I through this was tied in nicely with the things Gary was talking about today. They interacted with the audience simply because people asked them what they where doing. As well as this one to one engagement there was an interesting discussions happening afterwards between commutors about what it was about and rumors spread READ THIS! 

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Non-Gallery spaces

In the Audiences lesson today we where discussing site and situation for our art work outside of the "white cube" gallery space. A first i wasn't to interested because in my work i always have so sort of gallery space in mind and don't consider any alternatives. But this has got me thinking what effect this would have on my work as well as ways in which thinking about other situations can inspire new work and push existing work in new directions. 

I liked some of the ideas Gary suggested in the discussion. Such as an idea of mapping out the city with ranger poles i think this could become both a performance/video as well as using the data collected 2 make drawings. 

Another idea was to draw out on the ground the contour lines themselves in some sort of reverse mapping.  I think this could produce some interesti

ng results as well be a way to engage with a different audience for example shoppers on Briggate or students in college. Not sure yet how the view would engage and to what extent but would be interesting to find out and to find out if there where different engagements with different types of audience?

I think this could be done in a number of ways paint, chalk, tape or even a projection from above. 

I still do think my work will be driven with the intention of being shown in a gallery of some kind as at the moment i want to engage with an Art audience. But i do think maybe working with other audiences will be a good tool in developing ideas i have and maybe in future projects i will want 2 engage with non art audiences and so looking at them now will only help.

Leeds Met gallery

I visited the exhibition in the leeds Met gallery featuring works by Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker. This exhibition was not that well curated i didn't think as there where small shelves with small sculptures on in the same space as the Rachel Whiteread which i think distracted the viewer slightly. The Video piece upstairs was nice, i don't normally like video work as i find it boring but this really caught my interests and made me want to watch. I felt that the work using the lights was just squeezed in and had a poor place in the back upstairs. 

The Saatchi Gallery-New Art From The Middle East

AlterModern

Altermodern is the main exhibition showing contempury British and internation Art as part of TATE Britans 4th Triannual. It is curated by Nicolas Bourriaud the former curator of the palais de tokyo and famous for Relational ascetics . In this show he is showing artists he thinks are alternative to Post modern and maybe the next movement of Art.

I through this show was very well curated. I liked how all the Art works where spaced apart usaly in a room of there own this meant all the audiences attention was focused on one piece and was not distracted by other works in the view. Most of  the works where shown in large "white Cube" rooms and videos in Blacked out rooms except for the works in the first room which was part of the main hall in TATE Britain there it was dull light (possibly due to 2 video works being shown) so u couldn't see the non video works to well. The worst part of the lay out of the show for me was you had to go throught the shop half way through this broke the idea of the gallery a bit for me.

 I liked how the show only shows current artists and nearly all the works there had been made the year before and all the artists are currently practicing artists. How ever im not sure if Nicolas Bourriaud is right that Altermodern is the new move in art as alot of the work didn't seem to different form other contemporary art that i have seen. 

For a more Detailed explination look at the ALTERMODERN website HERE!

London

During reading week i went to London for 3 days to visit the gallery. we visited:

• The Saatchi gallery
• TATE Modern
• AlterModern at TATE Britan
• The White cube
• The Serpiantine
• Chelsea school of Art Gallery and 1st Year show

The shows i saw was a good range of international (saatchi) and british art. I will Look in detail at the curation and spaces of these galleys in my next few posts.

 

Blog

My Blog is going to look at the ways curation and the spaces used to exhibit effect art works. I think these things are very important to consider when think about exhibiting my own work as well as helping putting on shows such as the upcomeing 2nd year show. I want to she how and to what extent these things change how the work is looked at and how the meaning is changed. To do this i plan to visit diffrent exhibitions in classic "white cube" gallerys, public spaces and non-gallery spaces and hopefuly talk to curatiors.