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.
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