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! Visit there website for more info: www.fiohb.com
Its interesting to see that you are now contemplating possibilities of showing work in public spaces. However as you are still mainly intent on showing in traditional gallery spaces, perhaps you need to start getting much more focused on these. How is work being presented at the moment? What are the main conventions? Try your work out in similar ways. Take over a clean white space and set work up and then photograph so that you can interrogate your presentation.
ReplyDeleteTime to start reflecting in more depth on this. Your work could be placed within a much more public arena. A billboard perhaps. How would an audience used to the old cigarette adds respond to it? See http://www.subliminalworld.org/goldbrik.htm for some examples of what Benson and Hedges cigarette advertising used to look like.
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