Hello everyone;

I managed to aquire some basic plans of the gallery, which are not to scale but never-the-less provide measurements. One of the maps also shows where the power sockets are located, which I thought might be helpful for everyone to see. As I said, I plan on turning these into a "to scale" 3-D computer model, but in the mean time I thought I might put up a top-down map of the gallery space into the studio on the wall (as someone suggested). Hopefully we could sketch onto these plans as they change, and it would enable us to see where we all are... physically, temporally, mentally, etc...

Have a good one!

Workshop Links

Hello everyone,
Hope you had a good rest of the week? It was great to meet you all on Wednesday.
As promised here's some links to the websites I mentioned, plus links to the texts that we discussed. I'll keep adding new links as things develop, and look forward to seeing you again week after next. Til soon
Best - Paddy

Links:
E-Flux /seconds El Lissitzky archive
Documenta Utopia Station posters project
The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist
Coalesce Eastside Projects
Robert Smithson's 'Cultural Confinement'
Daniel Buren's 'Where are the Artists?'
Hans Ulrich Obrist's 'Evolutional Exhibitions'
Nicolas Bourriaud's 'Altermodern Manifesto'

What's everyone thinking of putting in the show?

As Leo suggested the other day, I thought I would start off the list of what's possibly going in the show.

For my 'other' work, I am going to put in some photographs of Jonny's band, probably printed relatively small (8"x6"?) and displayed all together in one of those lovely domestic Habitat/Ikea frames.  Not sure on quantity yet, but probably between 6 and 10 photographs.  

For my 'uni' work, I am doing a staged glass engraving, with multiple glass panes stacked together so you can look through it at about eye level.  There will be a running narrative of Jersey running through it, focusing mainly on history.  Ask me more about it next week when I've done a bit more drawing! It's possibly going to sit on a piece of granite, but the piece will be around 50cm cubed. It is going to sit on a plinth and I think will be free standing, but it might need lighting.  I will know a bit more in a few weeks time!

Bryony 

Curating Workshops

Hello Everyone,

My name is Paddy (also known as Woodrow) Kernohan and Susan has asked my to lead some Curating Workshops with you: the first tomorrow afternoon (18th Feb) and the next on Wednesday 4th March.

In relation to tomorrow's Workshop I have pasted below links to a couple of polar essays as background reading in relation to exhibition/curating history.

Robert Smithson's polemic 'Cultural Confinement' written in the volatile, reactionary climate surrounding Documenta 5 (1972) when Harald Szeemann was the curator (the first of the independent curators):

http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/cultural.htm

And

'Politics of Installation' (2008) by Boris Groys (philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and artist) whose video-essays were exhibited at Cubitt last year (May-June):

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/31

These two pieces sit at either end of the before/after curating timeline and act as oppositional introductions to some of the debates surrounding the role of the curator.

Hope you enjoy!

If any of you want further links to examples of debate around curating etc /seconds is very good resource, and great online journal:

http://www.slashseconds.org/

And after tomorrow's Workshop I'll post some more specific links etc in relation to our discussions, and Le Violon D’Ingres, Under the Table, Work and Play.

Look forward to meeting you tomorrow.
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For some background information on me - I graduated from CFAP in 2003, am currently a Director of Permanent Gallery (http://www.permanentgallery.com/), a Director of Brighton Photo Fringe (http://www.photofringe.org/), Exhibition Curator at The Regency Town House (http://www.rth.org.uk/), and am undertaking a research degree at the Royal College of Art.

Proposed "other" piece

Sorry I haven't been around much, I do still want to be a part of the 2nd year show. I asked Ben if it would be ok to put some of his stop motion clips in the exhibition and he was so keen on the idea he's made 2 more movies! I wish I had his enthusiasm when it comes to making work (i'm hopeing some of it will rub off on me!) I won't have time to get the new stuff into disc for tomorrows crits, but will be bringing the first batch with me to show.
Suzanne.

change of look

Hi Suzanne

I was just trying to read the blog and, being rather tired from a long day, also found the white text on black background rather hard to see. So I've changed the layout. But, everyone, keep changing it if you like until we get it just perfect . . .

Susan

[Initial] Exhibition Proposals

In light of Susan’s email yesterday, I thought I would post these links to a couple of websites that I have participated within over the last 4months.

BedroomTV

Profile Page: http://www.bedroomtv.com/profile/Songbird
Recent Post: http://www.bedroomtv.com/profiles/blogs/violon-dingres-2009 *

*Pending Administration Approval*

deviantART

Profile Page: http://jleverest.deviantart.com/
Journals: http://jleverest.deviantart.com/journal/
‘Favourites’: http://jleverest.deviantart.com/favourites/#SELF