31 October 2008
Grey Group
We have decided to do a site specific exhibition using a market as a starting point for the artists to react to. Suggestions for the market have been Borough market as first choice and Greenwich indoor market and Deptford market as alternatives. For next week we are each going to choose artists from our own discipline; sculpture, painting, drawing and illustration that would suit the venue. During the week we will also be thinking about possible themes that the artists could work with relating to the space. We have loosely discussed display and materials.
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Sounds great, you may like to look at Indra Khanna's Fly Pitch project which she did at Brixton Market http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/entertainment/galleries/flypitch.shtml
For some reason there's not much about it on the internet, but you could email her at Autograph ABP to ask for links to it. Did Frieze inspire your market place choice?
Rachael House
Thank you Rachel. I have just looked at the web page you suggested.
I like how the work displayed at Brixton Market 'interacted' with the shoppers, in particular those who don't go to galleries.
This exhibition also allowed the artists to side step the commercial galleries and create new work 'Freedom'. I can't speak for others but i don't think Frieze did inspire the idea of the market for me personally. That will be a good topic to discuss with the group next week.
Rosie lucas-scudamore
No! Frieze didn't inspire us at all i don't think! apart from the fact they are both "marketplaces" I think they are at opposite ends of the scale . Frieze is more like a stock market than the kind of market we were thinking of in terms of the visitors as well as the "produce".
I really liked the brixton market project too, I liked the idea of using a stall as an alternative to a gallery for showing art and being an integral part of the art, also Hew Locke is the new tutor on the painting program, maybe he could be one of our artists?!
hi, for my choice of artist i'd like to nominate Hew Locke as he's done the Brixton market thing before so we know he's open to this kind of event (though could this work against us as it's quite similar? maybe there's a spin we can put on it) his work uses ready made objects from markets that are cheap, colourful, plasticky, mass produced and makes a comment on communities, people, icons. He's quite well known (he was in British Art Week 06) so he could be a draw, but as he is a tutor at Camberwell he is accessible. www.hewlocke.net Who have other people come up with?
you may like to look at the Whitechapel's website for more artists working in a market setting-
Fri 14 November, & 16 November, 11am-4pm
Live Art on Petticoat Lane Market
Part of The Street
As part of The Street - a year-long series of artists’ commissions in and around Wentworth Street - the Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned a site-specific live art performance by four emerging artists.
Unfolding around Petticoat Lane Market, the work includes a sale of language skills with participants recruited from the local area, installations and performances inspired by the textiles history of the area and a market stall acting as a fairground booth presenting a magic, puppetry and optics show.
Commissioned artists; Ania Bas, Chloe Cooper, Patricia Derrick, Natasha Vicars
Free, no booking necessary
hi group.
as my chosen artist i would like to put forward luke best. i'm not sure if we have to chose one each, but me and the other illustration people (flo,miriam) have discussed that he would be a suitable option for one or all three of us.
the question of accessibility was mentioned earlier.however,due to him being our tutor, he is accessible.additionally, he recently attended a zine fair we took part in. he likes to support us and is more likely to participate in our exhibition.
to see the kind of work he makes. click www.lukebest.com
JADE BRIDGWOOD
Are there any other artists people can think of? We only have 2 so far.......I could suggest Claire Mitten as one, I met her last week, she's really inspired me in my studio work, again she uses cheap plastic colourful materials to make sculptures, paintings and installations, but I don't want to take over, if those who haven't suggested anyone want to they are very welcome!!
Also I was reading the handouts Rachael gave us and there's a quote from one that i think we need to watch out for "in a recent email exchange with a round curator, some of these issues have come up. His curatorial strategy - which is not uncommen - seems to involve coming up with a vague framework and hopeing that the artists will save his blushes. When confronted with this he said " i trust the capability of critical/engaged/political cultural producers to express any thoughts, concerns and solutions regarding the 'theme' with their work:. If there is anything wrong with his curatorial framwork, then, he is confident that the artists will rectify the exhibition for him" I think we were talking a couple of weeks ago about being quite open about what we wanted the artists to respond to exactly and this could possibly be a bad idea. Maybe we should be more specific about what they should be inspired by?
I really enjoyed last weeks site visits. I was blown away by Hannah Barry's determination and her team of helpers. I think i may send her an email about getting some work experience.
i glad area 10 have had success gettinng their charity status.
i liked the smaller end room the most, the eldest part of the building.
what a challenge to work around the damp?
Claire Miiten sounds great.
i went to this mad art opening at london bridge, under the arches. Masses and masses of work. Didn' think much of the sculpture, there was some brilliant video installations.
there were one or two disturbing videos about heroin and injecting and another self harm
s and m, uh
!! i felt really angry and just annoyed actually at the point of the work. Lots ofpain and gore perhaps too self induljent, i thought is this really art, if so hasn't this been done many many times before? There were
amazing performance artists including
two drag queens who were hilarious.
one does a regular bingo night on a monday night at the
vauxhaull
tavern.
he/she might be a great entertainer drawing ih the public at the market.
he's amazing to watch, perhaps he could bingo off the art work at the end of the week?
Yes i must find out his name.
Are we meeing up friday morning??
Rosie Lucas-Scudamore
Hi Grey Group,
I would like to propose Polly Morgan as my artist. Polly Morgan is a taxidermist. Check out her work www.pollymorgan,com.
Her work would be really interesting, it would be good to see a revival of taxidermy on the market place. I know taxidermy sound a bit gruesome but i think you may find it really interesting. I'll bring in a article today and see what you think. I also have a good body of research on her. I think her work may A. make the public stop and question, how is taxidermy art? B. What are the techniques? C. It's history. etc
R lucas-scudamore
Hi guys, Great meeting this morning.
Glad we have agreed on Borough. I have included pictures with the proposal. Now just have to square away the funding.
Really enjoyed the site visist the other day. I liked the set up at the gallery and the way it had been managed. I thought the presentation upstairs gave a really clear progression of how far they'd come, now world wide. The presentation also showed many good examples of how many ways you can curate a show and get people to come to the show.I liked that he openly spoke about how the art world has changed and how the recession may do the art market good.
Matt Roberts was brilliant. I have recommended him to a few people. I thought he was again really clear about the role of the charity, how it started, what it does and where it's going. How do they fit all the volunteer work in with their everyday normal jobs!???!?!?!?! They are such an important charity becasue they help artists who are not good at networking. They help get their artists gallery representation.
Hi group!
I think we need to meet up the first week of term. When would you be free? Maybe a lunch-time would be best in order to miss lectures/tutorials. I have sent everyone an email and attached Borough Market photos, if you dont get them let me know.
Considering our venue choice and the Brixton Market project, I was thinking about the curator's role in producing a public. Our proposed exhibition would mainly address people that dont necessarily go to galleries. Would we therefore be producing this audience?
I haven't seen any of the photos- my email address is florence.c.shaw@gmail.com. Could you forward them to me?
By producing an audience do you mean by inviting them? I think it would be altogether more interesting to aim the work at incidental shoppers. I think for a market place exhibition to work, the art needs to serve some kind of a purpose as part of the working environment, sort of woven into the whole experience of the market, as opposed to it being a separate entity.
florence
Sure - il send you the photos in a minute!
I was thinking about how the curation of an event produces a particular audience. A public could be influenced by the institution/space or artists within a particular exhibition. Like you said marketing aspects such as invites would also be a factor.
Hey all,
Just wanted to comment on my trip to the Saatchi Gallery last week. It was brilliant. the location is brilliant, just off the Kings road. The bulding is incedible. The first thing i notcied were the massive oak floors, white walls, glass and high ceilings. The works were all exhibited really well. It was really liberating to be able to get up so close to the work. There were now stuffy guards!! I liked the chic staff who minced around in their green saatchi t-shirts. I felt at ease no staff, suited and booted with name tags. There are lots of brilliant Chinese artists including: Zang Huan and Shen Shoamin which i reccomend all to see. I also went to Vyner Street and saw all the openings there. I was blown away by my class exhibition in the Empire gallery. The entrance is so magical and grand, walking up and up and up those beautiful stairs. The space felt cosy and intimate, Perhaps it was just becasue i new the artists!.
I went to Kate Macgarry opening last week. Francis Upritchard, Martino Gamper and Karl Fritsch. A collaborative installation bringing together "the shared aesthetic in their distinctive approaches to jewellry, furniture design, and sculpture.
On the door was a one in one out system, we waited about 15 minutes. There was alot of que hopping going on!!!!!!!!
Great vibe inside, it did feel very cramped and i did worry about knocking the work over with my bag. I would of liked to have had more room to walk around the work. I felt i had to rush around and move on. Much of the work was displayed on the gallery walls.Next door IBID Projects had a private view of Oliver Richon's photographs. The gallery was jammed so one had to manouvere around and around to see the entire picture. His new works focused on 'staged portraits' of different animals as well as domestic still life objects. i.e monkey, tortoise and a dog. The press release of both galleries were very simple and easy to read. I would love to show my work in these spaces. One day! x
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