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INTRO
Think inside the box / template of expression / …


5 Days workshop building up exhibition stands for our own work or research material; we would plan, curate, craft, present and document.
Themes: trade, craft, DIY, template, standardization, exchange
On day 6 everything would be ready for the official opening and speakers would be invited for a lecture about politics of craft and media prototyping


DESCRIPTION
Art and media work within physical restrictions


During the first 5 days at V2 we would work intensively on an actual physical installation (loads of wood, tools, light, besides media specific objects). We would do a general plan before hand for the backbone of the installation and brainstorn on the variety of its parts, depending on the most appropriated media for a certain content. We would work in both planned and improvised mode.
Use of a box-template as medium, enclosure and object of trade for art and media work
The box has a standard size for easy transportation: hand luggage restrictions? In wood? How to get it?


We would be basically working on prototypes of media display and reflecting on means to integrate them. We would all work with the same materials and get all the diversity of solutions associated in one object-volume, properly related with the available room and facilities at V2.
Objects: 100 - 150 boxes


It would be open and we would informally invite people that could help us out crafting our prototypes of media display. In the end of the day we would held informal gatherings with drinks, during which we could talk about the process, difficulties, purpose and eventually get feedback from outsiders and trigger a broader discussion.
Content:


CONTENT
Eleven to fifteen boxes displaying our work and work of fellow students: we should mix them up with loads of empty ones in order to have enough to structure a wall. The content of the boxes should be visible from the front or back. This wall is going to be the core of the exhibition and is going to be there for 6 days.


The work of each student doesn’t have to be finished or deeply developed. The ultimate purpose is the reflection on media, media display, public awareness and communication. We just need material enough to trigger discussion on the development of prototypes. The more diverse, blurred and difficult is the content, the best.
Projector permanently displaying images of containers, standard parts, mechanic labor, and mechanical craft: everything we can find that has to do with repetition, production and hand labor. We could also mix it up with the documentation pictures of our box building process. Or we can find a film to display that would mechanically stress people out.


LECTURE
Short manifesto about the exhibition and make it available in flyer mode. We could make a floor plan for the exhibition with wide tape and organize informal seating places with other stacked boxes.


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In one side of the space about 50 other boxes would be stacked for public use and to be added up to the wall after getting filled with art work or goods (!). The problem is that we should provide the public with materials to do this. Shall we have containers with queen’s day kind of material? Shall we just invite a small selection of people to come along on purpose to do this? Giving them a chance to exhibit their work on the stacked wall?


PURPOSE
In the last day we would have lectures in the evening (by whom?) and we would do an auction. Or, people that did put a box there could trade it with any other.
 
We would definitively question, think and discuss what craft is about and what collaboration work implies during these five days of construction work and collective brainstorm. We wouldn’t hold on directly to Arts and Crafts we would just practice it and integrate it into our own work. We would be playing the role of craftsman, curator and artist / media practicioner. We can directly test in how far manual work can ground our concerns, our capacity to communicate and in how far it might influence the value of the work on display.

Revision as of 20:55, 19 May 2014

Think inside the box / template of expression / …

Themes: trade, craft, DIY, template, standardization, exchange

Art and media work within physical restrictions

Use of a box-template as medium, enclosure and object of trade for art and media work The box has a standard size for easy transportation: hand luggage restrictions? In wood? How to get it?

Objects: 100 - 150 boxes

Content:

Eleven to fifteen boxes displaying our work and work of fellow students: we should mix them up with loads of empty ones in order to have enough to structure a wall. The content of the boxes should be visible from the front or back. This wall is going to be the core of the exhibition and is going to be there for 6 days.

Projector permanently displaying images of containers, standard parts, mechanic labor, and mechanical craft: everything we can find that has to do with repetition, production and hand labor. We could also mix it up with the documentation pictures of our box building process. Or we can find a film to display that would mechanically stress people out.

Short manifesto about the exhibition and make it available in flyer mode. We could make a floor plan for the exhibition with wide tape and organize informal seating places with other stacked boxes.

In one side of the space about 50 other boxes would be stacked for public use and to be added up to the wall after getting filled with art work or goods (!). The problem is that we should provide the public with materials to do this. Shall we have containers with queen’s day kind of material? Shall we just invite a small selection of people to come along on purpose to do this? Giving them a chance to exhibit their work on the stacked wall?

In the last day we would have lectures in the evening (by whom?) and we would do an auction. Or, people that did put a box there could trade it with any other.

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