A Part of our Exhibition will see my group p create a collaborative Research catalogue that details our collective research (through John Baldessari as well as any movements made within the collective process), as well as research from our individual practise (single focus practise, alongside images of our semi-completes/completed work).
Despite concerns from tutors, we feel that alongside the aesthetic nature of our world, this is a perfect way to summarise out work that really allows us to be united as a group.
In the recent weeks I have definitely enjoyed the collective process and am slightly saddened at its ending. In the same breath our ideas have been in full flow and we have being regularly working hard and collaborating together and I am very much looking forward to the collective process.
On Wednesday (25th) we plant o meet again and use the Digital Print Studio at university to create a 100-paged bound book with a professional Finnish. as our exhibition (we have decided) is going to be very minimal, we have decided to put our time, effort and resources into really emphasising the research nature of our exhibition, alongside the evaluative report and the boo (soon to be submitted) that shows our commitment to the collect challenge we have been set this year.
The format will most likely be a glossy finishes A4 landscape book that has 16 pages (8 dedicated to personal research of our own practises and the other six for collective research) that will outline the multiple thread lines of our ‘Political Aesthetic’ as well as our individual practise (which remain diverse).
Proposed Catalogue Layout
This Research Catalogue will form the few items that will create out quasi-gallery shop in which we will also have a ballot box as well as a LED/Neon sign with a comment or quote, under the banner ART?!
(the ! representing a statement and the ? asking the question to our audience)
As out idea has developed we have definitely moved into a more theoretical real in which we have relinquished a literal representation of our individual practise, and have aligned more on a collective side of art theory, we are presenting a single unified piece, with our individual practise having main place in the individual section of the research catalogue.
The cover will be an Ode Baldessari, followed by a contents Page, then 100 pages of accumulative research over the past 10 weeks