3. 7th March 2011. Caroline Wright.
Professional Context. Video Lecture.
EXPOSITION AND CONTEXT
Why do I need to make a career out of what I do?
What are my reasons for doing so?
What are my needs?
What does my practice consist of?
Where am I currently positioned?
Where would I like to be in a several years time?
What are my needs?
What does my practice consist of?
Where am I currently positioned?
Where would I like to be in a several years time?
Where does my work stand in relation to the audience?
Where is my audience?
Various places and contexts for exhibiting work:
Museums
Galleries
The Body- tattoos
Also consider the different layout and experience for the viewer, whether random, controlled, curated.
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts – post modern building set against the flatness of East Anglian. Purpose built for education, pieces are not for sale – attached to the University of East Anglia, and Library. Collection by Robert and Lisa Sainsbury – curated collection, visitors are directed.
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - randomly spaced eclectic collection.
Guerilla Girls – Political Art/ Feminism
Viral Campaign
Site Specific and beyond the gallery:
Mark Quinn – Alison Lapping Pregnant – the Fourth plinth arena.
Scallop by Maggi Hambling in Aldeburgh has divided opinion but become a focal point.
Worcester – Elgar Statue is not particularly interesting or attractive but has become a landmark.
Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty 1970 visible in its entirety only from the air – what audience.
Reflection
collated definitions from several dictionaries:
Exposition – a written definition or explanation of a specific topic, and the art or techniques of composing such discourses. Discourse – the written or spoken communication or debate. Meaning and intent.
Context – the circumstances in which a work of art is produced and interpreted – pertaining to the artist, the function of the work and the cultural history in which it sits.
Looking up several versions of the definitions to get different shades of meaning. Looking up the word context reminded me that there are sometimes areas of meaning we forget. In placing my own work, I think I do not tend to contextualise it as objectively as I would another’s – familiar contexts become unspoken and taken for granted. Perhaps if one were to imagine having to quickly sum up and contextualise work for someone from a completely different time and place, one would see near and obvious things differently.
Places to show work within and without the system of galleries, etc, especially relevant now with empty shop network ideas. My solo exhibition in 2007 was a negotiated space - Hornsey Town Hall. It certainly can be done, but even on a minuscule budget it takes alot of resources, time, etc.
Places to show work within and without the system of galleries, etc, especially relevant now with empty shop network ideas. My solo exhibition in 2007 was a negotiated space - Hornsey Town Hall. It certainly can be done, but even on a minuscule budget it takes alot of resources, time, etc.
Why do I need to make a Career out of what I do?
I need to make a career out of art because it is what I do – how I spend my work and leisure time, and therefore, by default, it must also serve practicalities. I am completely drawn to making and pursuing creativity, turn to it, and relate all my thoughts and experiences to it.
What are my reasons for doing so?
I keep thinking of reasons to explain this which are negative explanations – eg you often hear famous actors say acting was the only thing they could really do. That’s not quite the case with me – there are several areas of creativity, but I have a need to keep them all concurrent and live – art, making, writing. However, outside these areas I am quite unsuited – we are drawn to the way we are. Only after much time am I able to also teach and make something like a career out of my activities – there has been alot of piecemeal and alot of striving.
What are my needs?
What are my needs?
Like most areas of life for most people, I need more. More time, more space, more money, more things coming my way. Failing that, I have a great need to keep up with things and organise myself to maximise my efforts. If one has the time, one can arrange to be resourceful.
What does my practice constitute of?
What does my practice constitute of?
Images, writing, moving images, thoughts, objects, archive, ideas, technology, books, sound, nature, science, history of thought, philosophy, knowledge, gallery, museum, culture, people, city, trees, clouds, shadows, windows, inventions, materials, memories, insights.
Where am I currently positioned?
Ha! I’d say I am what they call on profile sites an emerging artist – a rather annoying term – you are emerging until you are mid career, then you are established. Probably after that you are venerated then dead. It’s true to say I have a fairly good idea of some things going on in contemporary art, but as to where I am is a rather different question from where my work is, and where it could be.
Where would I like to be in a several years time?
Where would I like to be in a several years time?
I would like to be more secure in the flow of galleries and outlets to show work – at the moment each exhibition is isolated. I would like to have completed a few more landmark, in my mind, exhibitions and projects, and have a great body of work and archive. I’d like to be showing work I love regularly, fulfilling the work.
Where does my work stand in relation to the audience?
My work hopes to reward the audience with thoughts and connections, ideas and memories. My work offers images and feelings to remember and take away. It can be watched through a gallery window as someone waits for a bus, starting a profound chain of thought.
Where is my audience?
Still in galleries. In bookshops, In the street, passing by. The audience has to take a step towards to find my work – in the gallery, in the art-place – it does not come to find them, in the street or public media.
21st March 2011
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