am just starting out in a bit of a new art group coming out of some of the people in crystal palace artists group that was. linda duffy from the group sent me this; and to pass onto those that might be interested (are you a site/space/place artist that's interested? email at bottom)
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Point of Departure (Working Title)
A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [zi_n], "zeen") is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock. Wikipedia
Market
Emerging and mid career artists, writers, placemakers, urbanists. The publication will offer a platform for developing and sharing creative perceptions, critical contexts and projects responding to or departing from places, spaces and sites.
Content
Articles, graphic novelettes, photo essays, briefs for conceptual projects, discussion, further reading.
Production and Distribution
A series of 10 free, no-budget mini-zines, produced as 3-4 double-sided A4, black and white photocopies, also made available as downloadable pdfs via website.
The project builds towards a compiled version produced to commercial standard, distributed through specialist arts outlets and sold at a not for profit price point. Additional funding will be sought toward this stage of production.
Remuneration
Unfortunately we are not currently able to offer remuneration to contributors, as this is currently an unfunded, non-commercial project. We intend to seek funding to cover the costs of production, promotion and distribution of the first compiled version.
Critical Context
At a time of growing interest in work that is site-specific or responding to sites/places/spaces, it is useful to ask 'what is driving such work?'
In what ways is such work different to what has come before? How easy/difficult is it for emerging artists working in this way to find opportunities and situate their work within a broader critical context? What are the appropriate audiences for such work? Perhaps this zine could speak to such questions...
Furthermore, we ask how we value this kind of work. How do we create economic value for it? What value does it add to society (assuming it does)? How can the value added be remunerated? How might we consider these discourses and practices in the context of regeneration?
For further information contact:
John Hartley - johntonta@googlemail.com; Linda Duffy - lm_duffy@yahoo.com
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some initial thoughts from the top of my head.......
i particularly like "briefs for conceptual projects" as i'm really into my new toy of using scores for my work that others follow, it started with my Duckie show laura took part in. So, for me, perhaps a series of scores using sites, e.g. starting with 'find a closet and make it lightight' then going through a series of actions, with direct instructions and some parts more open to interpretation. when i did shed, i really liked the way that my one single instruction was ambiguous, " Pick a flower that mean something to you." Some chose a flower and picked it up still in its pot, others literally, picked it from the stem.this reinforced the mortality nature of my work, death of flower more immediate in the latter action mirrored in the death of the photographic image in the exchange.
I also really like www.learningtoloveyoumore.com where briefs are given and people submit responses, i have been using that a lot with my students. perhaps the zine for me could be an entry on a score and the responses OR just an offer of artistic scores, where i exist as the author, is there a way for dialogue post the zine, maybe i should try the zine way as well as a learningtoloveyoumore way hmmmmmmm......this could also be a way to create some kind of documentation for my work, the old chesnut that continues to stump me as i don't document the personal encounters.....ahhhh.....
the question, "how we value this kind of work" to me also asks why we value this kind of work. i like making the familiar unfamiliar as well as a different of familiarity, an ordinary closet of mops and tools into a den of secrecy...its the same site but not as we once thought we knew it.
we'll meet up again next week, hope to thrash out some ideas, i think i should investigate others' artistic scores, back to tino sehgal et al......
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Saturday, 18 October 2008
The Darkroom @ Duckie: The score
The score I set to follow of the 'happening' : Outline of an encounter
Mitch approaches a person in the main bar/dancefloor/outside area.
Mitch asks person “ Would you like to go to the darkroom?” and continues to ask until gets a willing participant and puts a sticker on them.
Performer approaches person wearing a sticker, gets out a mobile phone from her handbag, puts arm round them(?) and takes a phone photo of the two of them together. Performer plays back image and shows the participant the image. Mobile phone goes back in the performers handbag.
The Performer says/whispers “Come with me” OR lead by hand, and the two go to the edge of the bar near the club entrance, to the door marked “Private.”
They open the door and walk upstairs, across the landing and sit together a few steps up on the main (ornate) staircase. If there is someone already on the stairs they sit below/above.
The Performer asks them what they keep in their pocket/on their person, and if they’d like to share it.
They then talk about the item if they want to share, and the Performer may share an item too.
The Performer then gets up and walks to the bathroom with the participant. Performer knocks on the bathroom door. If there is someone in there they stand and wait OR return to the ornate staircase and sit.
They go inside and sit on the floor.
Performer gets out photographic paper and asks the Participant to put their item on the paper. Performer does the same if they also told their story.
Performer/participant then turns on the bathroom light/ gets out torch on a key ring and exposes the photo paper.
Performer then gets up and moves towards sink. She puts in the plug.
She asks the participant to put the image in the sink. She then opens a bottle sitting on the side of the bath/sink and pours it over the image. Performer gets out tweezers from her handbag, moving image around with tweezers to coat it fully.
They watch the image partially develop.
Performer then gets out their mobile phone and finds the photo of the two of them, and holds it over the image to kill it to black completely.
The image is then deleted by the participant. The mobile goes back into the performers handbag.
The Performer turns on the cold tap and as it fills up, takes the plug out and holds the image under the tap to wash it.
Performer wraps and blots the image in a towel/flannel and puts it [in a small wash bag] inside her handbag. The two leave the bathroom, shutting the door firmly behind.
The two go to the laundry room. The photogram is taken out of the handbag to hang up on string with pegs in the laundry room with all the other ones.
The performer leaves the laundry room shutting the door firmly behind. She then walks down the stairs with the participant and stops by the door to the club. She gets out a business card form her handbag, takes off the participants sticker and sticks it on the back of the card, and puts the card in the participants pocket. She then opens the door back to the dance floor and the participant and the performer leave one another.
Event starts again.
Questions
Does the performer offer their story first or only if feels right to do so
How much do you need to gesture for the participant to move around the space, if performer sat down or walked in the bathroom would they follow?
How much developer to pour each time and how to sort out refilling. Using the idea of a bottle on the side of the bath OR perfume bottle? Test out half strength dilution in the chosen exposure lighting conditions.
Set up:
Black out bathroom, laundry room, Top landing (all single windows)
Hang up black curtain over the door to laundry room if needed and other glass door possibly.
Laundry room:
Set up red light. Hang up string for photo paper. Put pegs on the side.
Bathroom:
Set up red light. Clear space to sit on floor. Check plug fits if needed. Sort out white lighting arrangements. Test exposure and development time.
Walk through whole piece with Laura and Mitch.
Get dressed up for the club!
Mitch approaches a person in the main bar/dancefloor/outside area.
Mitch asks person “ Would you like to go to the darkroom?” and continues to ask until gets a willing participant and puts a sticker on them.
Performer approaches person wearing a sticker, gets out a mobile phone from her handbag, puts arm round them(?) and takes a phone photo of the two of them together. Performer plays back image and shows the participant the image. Mobile phone goes back in the performers handbag.
The Performer says/whispers “Come with me” OR lead by hand, and the two go to the edge of the bar near the club entrance, to the door marked “Private.”
They open the door and walk upstairs, across the landing and sit together a few steps up on the main (ornate) staircase. If there is someone already on the stairs they sit below/above.
The Performer asks them what they keep in their pocket/on their person, and if they’d like to share it.
They then talk about the item if they want to share, and the Performer may share an item too.
The Performer then gets up and walks to the bathroom with the participant. Performer knocks on the bathroom door. If there is someone in there they stand and wait OR return to the ornate staircase and sit.
They go inside and sit on the floor.
Performer gets out photographic paper and asks the Participant to put their item on the paper. Performer does the same if they also told their story.
Performer/participant then turns on the bathroom light/ gets out torch on a key ring and exposes the photo paper.
Performer then gets up and moves towards sink. She puts in the plug.
She asks the participant to put the image in the sink. She then opens a bottle sitting on the side of the bath/sink and pours it over the image. Performer gets out tweezers from her handbag, moving image around with tweezers to coat it fully.
They watch the image partially develop.
Performer then gets out their mobile phone and finds the photo of the two of them, and holds it over the image to kill it to black completely.
The image is then deleted by the participant. The mobile goes back into the performers handbag.
The Performer turns on the cold tap and as it fills up, takes the plug out and holds the image under the tap to wash it.
Performer wraps and blots the image in a towel/flannel and puts it [in a small wash bag] inside her handbag. The two leave the bathroom, shutting the door firmly behind.
The two go to the laundry room. The photogram is taken out of the handbag to hang up on string with pegs in the laundry room with all the other ones.
The performer leaves the laundry room shutting the door firmly behind. She then walks down the stairs with the participant and stops by the door to the club. She gets out a business card form her handbag, takes off the participants sticker and sticks it on the back of the card, and puts the card in the participants pocket. She then opens the door back to the dance floor and the participant and the performer leave one another.
Event starts again.
Questions
Does the performer offer their story first or only if feels right to do so
How much do you need to gesture for the participant to move around the space, if performer sat down or walked in the bathroom would they follow?
How much developer to pour each time and how to sort out refilling. Using the idea of a bottle on the side of the bath OR perfume bottle? Test out half strength dilution in the chosen exposure lighting conditions.
Set up:
Black out bathroom, laundry room, Top landing (all single windows)
Hang up black curtain over the door to laundry room if needed and other glass door possibly.
Laundry room:
Set up red light. Hang up string for photo paper. Put pegs on the side.
Bathroom:
Set up red light. Clear space to sit on floor. Check plug fits if needed. Sort out white lighting arrangements. Test exposure and development time.
Walk through whole piece with Laura and Mitch.
Get dressed up for the club!
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