hi all,
below a preliminary proposal for a show on the Web plus on the wifi-enabled handball court/east harlem.
see you soon,
best,
ursula
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Preliminary Project Description for exhibition/event proposal for the Artist Meeting Group
Location: Internet and Out-door WiFi-enabled Handball Court in East Harlem via/with MediaNoche Gallery
Time: End of September, or later?
The process of getting to know each other's work, working habits, and theoretical as well as critical approaches accompanying the work is an intrinsic part of developing an exhibition proposal within a group. I find that best ideas come when often bounced back and forth, at least this is my process, and so I would like to share this with the group.
I am proposing an ongoing project that will accompany the Artist Meeting's get-togethers, especially for the times we are not actually meeting in a RL space. As we have started already an email list as a way to communicate, we haven't really used it's potential yet, or for that matter, haven't had much time for discussing/exchangi ng/juxtaposing ideas concerning our works among each other.
This is what I would like to encourage: a discussion, in a moderated form, based on submitted questions, ideas, topics that are of concern for all of us and circle around the plan to exhibit/perform/ organize an event together, and what it means in terms of our own work. I imagine to either use the already set-up email list for discussion rounds or to setting up a blog, plus eventually starting a website, where relevant material can be posted in the form of a "drop box" of further ideas or material.
The goal is to collect conversations, info, and material over two or three months online and then to curate a show with it -- make visible the conversation that goes on, but also include the submitted material.
As I almost see this as the guerilla aspect of the group - getting to know each other and each others work -- I would like to set-up a, at first, semi-public dialog format that will randomly select the interviewer and the interviewee.
We start out with everyone collecting ten questions they would like to ask the group, or any individual artist. So for instance the question: Where do you place your art in terms of media, would you call it new media? Or: In which public space are you interested to show your work? A gallery, or on the Web?
Every artist would be assigned a number, every couple of days a new combination of numbers is picked (by a program) and the artist duo -- consisting of one who asks the questions, and one who answers them -- announced.
The goal is to have a documentation of our conversations and also a way to introduce our topics eventually to the public. The main idea is, that the DISCUSSION BECOMES THE SHOW.
Structurally the layout of the show will then point out the discussion within our collaborative praxis and would follow a "sequential idea": Works by different artists are presented next to each other, based on the structure of the previous dialog, which would lead to a visualized dialog portraying our main ideas. So it is somewhat a visualized "exquisite-corpse" (Surrealists) display of works.
For the Wifi event I could imagine to show a projection of the conversations (whatever visual form it might take on online) plus the dropped of material, plus, every participant could present a statement along with it as a live event.
This could also go hand-in-hand with a concurrent show at MediaNoche Gallery. While every instant of the visualized dialog is watched outside, each instant of the process can be saved, downloaded and printed-out in the gallery.
If this event would take place in September, an additional layer of exchange could happen: ongoing shows on other locations could get pulled in to add to the conversation.
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