Final (End of Year) Collective Exhibition
“The digital image is a copy—but the event of its visualization is an original event, because the digital copy is a copy that has no visible original. “- Boris Groys
My Collective and I have been discussing the possible look of our final Exhibition that s required in Week 10 (Christmas) and have decided to go with a Tate Modern Inspired Merchanise Shops.
What this means is that all of our work (in its respective style) will be used in an mass/manufactured aesthetic, each allowing or work to be copied and printed onto a number of cheaply made, easily reproducible everyday objects such as mugs, pillowcases, T-Shirts or Zines for example.
Not only is this a comment on the easily reproducible nature of work in art, but also allows our work to flow as a whole (as we all have different styles and interest), and to receive the same amount of attention and limelight in the final exhibition.
I think that this is an interesting concept.
So often is work vilified and placed on aa pedestal, being one of a kind. However, to remove it aura and to manufacture it so easily, this will allow our work to significant theoretical commentary (with particular reference to extracts from work such as ‘A Work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction’ or ‘The Death of the Author’ if feel that this is a good way to unite work that is in fact very varied, our group all having very opposing motivations and use of material.
Although this idea is still in the discussion stage, and is probably due to some changes in the coming weeks, I am looking forward to the task of unifying myself and my groups practises in the coming weeks
5th Nov: Minimalist Gallery Set-Up
- Gallery Gift-Shop idea in which we re-appropiate our work as commercial pieces often found in gallery gift-shops; postcards, cups, mugs, t-shirts, zines
- A comment on Capitalism, Reproduction and Politics of Aesthetics and Art
9th Nov: Developments (Student Led Gallery Week)
