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.