Back At PLAY . . . believe it or not . . .

During 2008 we have been working on the project without updating the blog. We now have produced new work that explored ideas based on strategies such as 'contradiction' and 'upsidedown'. These are some images of the work produced in sessions together.

Steve produced these:

Alex produced these:

Emma produced these:

Do Not Use

Do Not Use - Forensic Evidence

Ship

nonfunctioning machine for making a dead fly circle the light

Do Not Use

An open invitation. Make new work here, change what you find, publish results. Rules welcome. (Alex)

"It's this purposefully made box"

Adventures in New Media

The empty display case that perplexed and haunted me for a while was finally finished following ideas to investigate new media. I changed the idea from a video piece within the object to a sound piece within the box. This seems to have effectively pushed the references back to the object without creating another representation of it, and emphasizing its banal presence as a disfunctional display case. When we met and talked to Roger Ackling, he said to be radical. For me, I guess that has happened, at least to some extent, though I followed ideas and solutions to problems rather than seek to produce work that specifically meet what I thought radical meant.

Visitors went up close, as they had to, to hear the spoken loop to find it refering back to the undisplayed presentation. I found it difficult at first to work with an object that did not inherently provoke a response for me. I think that through the encouragement from the others to persevere on this one, I may work again in the future in a similar way, and definately expore new media more.

Completion of the first exhibition

So we have finished the second phase of the project. After working together we have spent some time preparing and further experimenting with pieces for the first exhibition. The process has been successful and we have had good feedback about the work and display.

EXHIBITION NOW OPEN

Pictures at an exhibition.....

A few pages from the catalogue