Proposal draft
- key interests / processes used / links between the most of my previous projects
- public space
- language / text based
- online / offline media combination
- site specific / situation specific
- collaborative (including the "users")
- a platform / tool
- a reaction
- an alternative media
- conceptual design
- activistic / critical
- problem solving / highlighting
- empowering
- exhibition as a medium
- Ex Yugoslavia / Croatia / Zagreb related social issues
- the role of a mediator
- proccess revealing
- practice / methodology / work patterns
- i have listed all the key words that describe my previous practice, and noticed that some of the characteristics are incommon to all of them, while the others split into two groups, which makes a division between my previous work and the last two projects. the last two projects have the same base ground and methodology as the previous projects but are different in their content and purpose.
- the keywords that are incommon to all of the works are:
- a reaction
- site specific / situation specific
- collaborative (including the "users")
- a platform / tool
- role of a mediator
- keywords that seem important to me at this point are the ones that are quite new to my practice, but are also in a way present in some of my previous work, those are:
- exhibition as a medium
- process revealing
- D Day, WORM exhibition, SC
- link from previous to current / proposed work
Having in mind both my previous and current interests and working patterns, the (still vague) proposal for my graduation project will be keeping some characteristics of my previous practice (methodology and form), while the content I will be dealing with is new, although it has a lot to do with my previous practice and has evolved from it. The methodology I will be using is my ususal methodology present in most of my work which is a reaction to a situation / problem / task. This time the situation is an exhibition, a final graduation project exhibition. The work I would like to make is concieved as a project made specifically for this exhibition and all that it brings. This has its beginnings in my last two projects that were dealing with the systems of exhibition, and revealing proccesses behind them.
Since the role that I have in my projects is the role of a mediator and not as an independent author and the content that is getting out of those projects and the material that I'm using is "outsourced" I would like to get involved with the topic of shared autorship / free culture / open society / free content / open publishing (still needs to be narrowed down and more focused) and explicitly show it on the final exhibition.
- motivation
- my first graduation project was collaborative / participatory. a platform / tool for othes to act upon. now i want to take it a step forward (back) and make the process that i'm wotking with it more visible and explicit.
- readings
- Free Culture
- Multiple Autorship
- Relational Aesthetics
- Participation
- The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now
- Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
- protests project
- The neverending issue of determining the number of people on a protest. Each media source usually gives their estimation, which of course reflects their political standpoint of the protest.
- How to solve this problem? How to provide a single number that would disable the mentioned practice of speculation.
- ideas:
- A number of independent counters with devices that would print out numbers (labels) and give them to each person participating in a protest. All these devices would be connected so that the counting would be continuous.
- Hacking a label printer?
- Live upoading / publishing of the numbers to a webpage?
- An example of a collaborative work during a protest