We took the opportunity on Tuesday morning to set up out of the way of the confusion of the chaos that will ensue on Wednesday (day of the deadline).
Throughout the morning Heeding and I did most of the preparation measuring out our space (equal lengths between the wall and the opposing work, as well as height which we aimed at just above average height). This was easily achieved as we are working with a lot of space and was achieved in a relatively quick fashion.
As we are only working with a few objects we really had to expound the aesthetic quality of the piece (which we are aiming for a white, minimalist piece) as well as an object thats speak to the audience.
Throughout the morning we experimented with working and lettering as we decided weather we wanted a specific question, or an symbol (theoretical) phrases that had multiple thread points.
As we are equipped with 69 letters, numbers and symbols we were open for choice as to how to best make use of our light-box and we spent a large portion of the time experimenting with the arrangement of words and phrases in the aim to continue along the theoretical able of our final outcome.
Below is an example; Welcoming Phrase
If we make or comment, where does this lie in relation to the ‘Political Aesthetic’ viewpoint?
Blank
If we left it blank what were we saying?; What were we not saying? Is this too reductive?
Backwards Spelling
Is there a way we could confused/mask what we are trying to say?
Similarly, could be mask the letters in another way: by removing important or key letters
Could the audience still decipher what we want to say?
As well as this we discussed weather wanted to make the work interactive, leaving the remaining letters and numbers for the audience to make their own comments/words/phrases.
Wit this in mind we tried a number of arrangements of the letters in the space making use of the shelf as a means of preparation. Although aesthetically I enjoyed the outcome, i feel that it was too much of a literal representation of what we wanted the audience to engage with.
So far we have managed to successful reduce our idea from a very literal representation to a theoretical standpoint and I feel that to have the words arranged in this way would be a backward step.
In addition what it did was to displace the bookworm the original planned position of being directly underneath the light-box that really changed the aesthetic nature of the piece
An important part of the piece is uniformity. To this end we spend the vas majority of this day filling holes, covering scuff marks and making all the elements of the piece level. This required a lengthy drying period as we painted the surrounding walls and the shelf.
Final
The only object not featured in the images is the book(s) as the shelf was still drying. However I think the images are a very clear representation of what we have achieved throughout the today.
Our piece hold enough materiality to show our efforts throughout the week, whilst enough absence to prompt discourse, and this this is everything we needed to achieve.
We successfully moved away from our own practises to become a collective, whilst retaining a condition in what we all wanted to seek about, the outcome being the final outcome.
Our box with be composed of the shelf housing the book, with the ligh-tbox situated directly above it saying the work ‘OPEN’.
Open to what:
- Discussion
- Interpretation
- Interaction
Luckily within the space we have been afford a lot of space to work with. We are still unsure as to whether there will be a piece of work to the left (right hand side of the image) but as it stands we have a relatively large amount of space within DG12a.
work situated to the right (left hand side of the image)
