The final installation piece in the Millennium Galleries today would have been the ‘armchair’. Placed in front of the plasma screens, it would have triggered an intended sense of uneasiness and curiousity of what was going on in the space for passersby, as a kind of teaser of things to come in the social space. [...]
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Intervention Day 5 (what would have been)
Posted in Interventions on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Intervention Day 4 (what would have been)
Posted in Interventions on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Assuming that we were permitted to continue developing our intervention, today the display would begin its 3-dimensional aspect with the addition of a worktable standing on both sides of the ‘glass’ and half-empty paint cans to emphasise the idea of creating space to encourage artistic pursuits rather than just finished exhibition pieces.
Intervention Day 3
Posted in Interventions on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Our worst fears are confirmed! After just 2 days into the ‘Intervention’ phase of the project, we have received news that our display has not been well received by the gallery and must be taken down by 11am before a launch scheduled in the evening today. This ‘request’ highlights further the difficulties in creating an [...]
Intervention Day 2
Posted in Interventions on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We have placed chosen images and accompanying descriptions from the Graves Gallery’s collection to begin to suggest the connection between the work which the Youth Forum Studio have recently produced as self-interpretations of the Graves own existing art pieces. This concept will be developed further as the week progresses.
Interventions
Posted in Interventions on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As part of our involvement with the Youth Forum, we today introduced the first of a variety of our own intervention to the Millenium Galleries, in an attempt to personalise a somewhat sterile environment. Using a roll of tape, the idea of work in progress is to create a buzz around the Youth Forum and [...]
