To curate my Christmas
holiday I had to find a way to document an aspect of it so as to have
something to curate. I decided to focus on Christmas day as my
limited time period in which to document it. Then from that I chose
to collect and document my Christmas card envelopes. I chose the
envelopes from my Christmas cards as they are a easily forgotten
part of Christmas and I like the idea of archiving and displaying
aspects of Christmas that are usually discarded and forgotten as they
become obsolete functionless objects once they have fulfilled their
purpose of containing Christmas cards from one place to the next.
Envelopes are an object with a very specific function and they are
unusual in the way that their ability function only lasts for a very
small amount of time once they have been sent. Though Christmas card
envelopes are often dissimilar to envelopes used for sending letters
in as they often don't have a stamp on them as they are either handed
over in person or send inside a package containing a present. The
need for an envelope for a Christmas card is then lacking. If I was
to display my envelopes as an art object I would display them as a
collection, with an intent to add to each Christmas to become an ever
evolving artwork. I would display them in the same way stamps are
displayed as there is a clear link between the two objects. Stamps
are displayed in an album and a magnifying glass is used to see them
more clearly. They would be displayed in a museum so as to preserve
them and present them as items of value and cultural and historical
significance to contrast with the way they are usual seen as items of
minimal value and importance. It would be a comment on the way items
that are seen as obsolete, gain value with age and by being placed in
a museum. Also the collection of envelopes embodys the feeling of christmas as they contain cards which something people give and recive at christmas.
The audience of this piece would be the sort of people that
enjoy going to museums, it is not aimed at a specific age range but
more at the people who frequent museums and are interested in the archiving of objects.
I don't think it is of
importance that I have not physically displayed the actual envelopes
in a physical piece instead of scanning them in because writing how I
would display them is enough that they can be visualised in the
manner I would wish to display them. I have scanned an example of
them in and uploaded it onto here to prove that I did actually
collect them.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Evaluation of curatorial museum group exhibition project
In this evaluation I intend to outline key areas in which I feel we did well and areas which could have been improved in producing a body of work.
We began by chosing a theme. We chose The Day Of The Dead. I feel that this was a good topic to focus on as it gave itself to very community based artwork whilst broaching important topics, ie: death, in a positive and socialy acceptable way. By approaching death in this way it questions the way we veiw death by challenging our countries traditional veiws and questioning weither seeing death as something very awfull and morbid is right. It also gives a new perspective on a culture that is not often veiwed in museums and helps people experience the museum as a space in a new way.
We investigated into a specific theme and went through the curatorial process in order to produce everything needed to propose an exhibition. We chose our theme as a group, though the specific aspects that we focused on in our theme changed as we aquired new members. I felt that working in a group was an important experience as working with other curators and artists is a key part of working in the art world. When dividing the tasks that we had to complete bettween us we discussed each others strengths well, meaning that we finished tasks efficently to a refined level. Though on my part I felt my photoshopping was a bit rusty as I dont use it regularly, however as a group we overcame this by alocating different photoshopping tasks to different people, depending on the type of photoshopping required. Although we focused on individual stengths we made sure the tasks were split bettween us fairly and we each covered a range of mediums/tasks and often did our experiementational research together.
When beggining our work we brainstormed and produced mind maps to focus all our ideas and then went on to experiement a lot. However I feel that further on we got too caught up in experimentation and lost our focus a bit. We got distracted by the catering side of it and the food that is placed on the alter, which for heath and safety reasons could not be a part of our exhibition. Although, we got to caught up, we managed to carefully pin point our exact focus. From then we realised which experiments were impracticle, or drifted to far from our original aim and where able to mark them up as research and focus on our original aims. This wouldnt have been achivable if we were not able to work together well as a group.
I belive we made it clear through the artwork and resoarces that we chose to display that our exhibition would be community based and available to all age groups. With the ragdoll evidently intended for younger children, the tattoo photography for a teen audience and the sound instillation, as a less obvious arwork, focusing on reaching out to an older audience.
Although I felt we worked well as a group, it is still a difficult thing to do as everyone had different ideas about how things should look. Learning to compromise with each other but also when to say no was very important and a key part of keeping our ideas together and focused without anyone becoming unhappy. Balancing the work equaly bettween us whilst still focusing on individual strengths was also important so that nobody felt left out or overworked. To acheive these we met up regularly outside of lectures to discuss ideas and push forward our work. Then agreeing upon indivudual tasks to complete before we next met.
If we were to continue with this body of work to push it forward and where able to actualy follow through with it as an exhibition, I think we could look more in depth into advertisment and produce higher quality promotional material. Also I would photograph more examples of Day Of The Dead tattoo iconography and we would have the ragdoll produced as a full sized peice.
We began by chosing a theme. We chose The Day Of The Dead. I feel that this was a good topic to focus on as it gave itself to very community based artwork whilst broaching important topics, ie: death, in a positive and socialy acceptable way. By approaching death in this way it questions the way we veiw death by challenging our countries traditional veiws and questioning weither seeing death as something very awfull and morbid is right. It also gives a new perspective on a culture that is not often veiwed in museums and helps people experience the museum as a space in a new way.
We investigated into a specific theme and went through the curatorial process in order to produce everything needed to propose an exhibition. We chose our theme as a group, though the specific aspects that we focused on in our theme changed as we aquired new members. I felt that working in a group was an important experience as working with other curators and artists is a key part of working in the art world. When dividing the tasks that we had to complete bettween us we discussed each others strengths well, meaning that we finished tasks efficently to a refined level. Though on my part I felt my photoshopping was a bit rusty as I dont use it regularly, however as a group we overcame this by alocating different photoshopping tasks to different people, depending on the type of photoshopping required. Although we focused on individual stengths we made sure the tasks were split bettween us fairly and we each covered a range of mediums/tasks and often did our experiementational research together.
When beggining our work we brainstormed and produced mind maps to focus all our ideas and then went on to experiement a lot. However I feel that further on we got too caught up in experimentation and lost our focus a bit. We got distracted by the catering side of it and the food that is placed on the alter, which for heath and safety reasons could not be a part of our exhibition. Although, we got to caught up, we managed to carefully pin point our exact focus. From then we realised which experiments were impracticle, or drifted to far from our original aim and where able to mark them up as research and focus on our original aims. This wouldnt have been achivable if we were not able to work together well as a group.
I belive we made it clear through the artwork and resoarces that we chose to display that our exhibition would be community based and available to all age groups. With the ragdoll evidently intended for younger children, the tattoo photography for a teen audience and the sound instillation, as a less obvious arwork, focusing on reaching out to an older audience.
Although I felt we worked well as a group, it is still a difficult thing to do as everyone had different ideas about how things should look. Learning to compromise with each other but also when to say no was very important and a key part of keeping our ideas together and focused without anyone becoming unhappy. Balancing the work equaly bettween us whilst still focusing on individual strengths was also important so that nobody felt left out or overworked. To acheive these we met up regularly outside of lectures to discuss ideas and push forward our work. Then agreeing upon indivudual tasks to complete before we next met.
If we were to continue with this body of work to push it forward and where able to actualy follow through with it as an exhibition, I think we could look more in depth into advertisment and produce higher quality promotional material. Also I would photograph more examples of Day Of The Dead tattoo iconography and we would have the ragdoll produced as a full sized peice.
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Wall Plaque
I had to produce a piece of writing for a wall plague aimed at 12-14 year olds. I had to think about what to write to help the children engage with the work and chose to focus on how it was produced because when showing my 14 year old sister a photograph of the artwork, that is what interested her. Also facts and figures, in a non complex writing style, are useful for children that age for research on school trips which is often the reason why children of that age visit art galleries. Although I used phrases like "light sensitive paper" and "photographic print", I feel that I have explained them in a way children of that age will understand. I feel that the facts and figures are the most important focus as they are the things children of that age will understand. Where as if focused on the concept behind the work I feel children would lose interest or feel like it is above them.
Wall plaque for Wolfgang Tillmans Freischwimmer 155 (2010) aimed at 12-14 year olds
Freischwimmer is a German word which means “free swimmer”. This
piece of artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans questions what photography
really is because this is a photograph print that was created without
a camera. A photographic print is a printed picture produced through
manipulating light sensitive paper. Light sensitive paper is paper
that changes colour when light touches it. This particular piece was
created by moving fibre optic lights across light sensitive paper.
Moving the lights across it produced the black lines you can see on
this piece of artwork. The blur in this piece is produced through the
movement of the lights when placed on and removed from the paper.
Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Germany in 1968 and is an artist who
creates photographic based work. He made Freischwimmer 115 in 2010.
piece of artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans questions what photography
really is because this is a photograph print that was created without
a camera. A photographic print is a printed picture produced through
manipulating light sensitive paper. Light sensitive paper is paper
that changes colour when light touches it. This particular piece was
created by moving fibre optic lights across light sensitive paper.
Moving the lights across it produced the black lines you can see on
this piece of artwork. The blur in this piece is produced through the
movement of the lights when placed on and removed from the paper.
Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Germany in 1968 and is an artist who
creates photographic based work. He made Freischwimmer 115 in 2010.
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