Today we talked about so much stuff I'll try not to miss anything out. In any case I'll soon re-live the whole meeting as I attempt to transcribe it :-/ just as an aside I composed a very draft essay type writing piece for Hue and Cry but I felt the style of writing should have better reflected our way of working- today's meeting was a good 'un so fingers crossed it's not as earstrainingly difficult! soon as it's done I'll paste it on the blog, get your approval and voila!
We talked about flow-charts:how ours didnt function so well linear-ly but more as a mindmap type of structure. We started to discuss our 100 word manifesto but I'll save that one for the next posting.
We also talked about who to contact in regards to info packs for hosts and using hosts as facilitators. I think Liz said she'd contact Sarach about that. Andie said she'd sort out a meeting time for the hosts and or some kind of note for hosts to read on their noticeboard. It feels weird talking about myself in the third person.
We talked about how we can intervene between the artworks and the public, post-it notes were suggested as a means for visitors to voice their opinions on artworkd, but post-it notes are bad for the environment, so that idea was quickly dismissed! We also considered using honesty boxes (orange painted shoe boxes) around the gallery) for visitors to write their comments in as their comments might be more honest/less banal that way. But then we wondered what to do with all the comments at the end of it? Does it matter as they're anonymous anyway?(to be discussed more in next meeting).
We looked critically at our project and agreed that it's all a bit geeky really.
The diagram of the trolley was next addressed and we decided against the umbrella for its overly 'nice-nice' connotations, also we want visitors to feel comfortable in the whole institution not just at our station, AND opening umbrellas inside is bad luck! Sian's partner also helped us discussing technical details of the trolley as she'll be helping us build it tomorrow.
Instead we agreed on some kind of banner with some kind of slogan or branding painted on it (yet to be decided)
And we agreed on an orange, tangerine I believe it was.
By our next meeting (Monday the 15th 6pm at Roar) we've got to come up with a name for our work.
There's one thing that we might need to clear with the gallery...providing water for visitors (we're going to use Liz and Paula's camping water container and collect plastci cups) this could be problematic considering the 'no drinks in the gallery' rule? Of course they should make an exception for us! But it probably is something we should check out...
We talked about doing an alternative podcast, doing ours during installation week as reflective of our behind the scenes approach, also we might get to ask difficult questions of other artists and have more fun that way.
In terms of manning the station we discussed contacting Biddy Grant and getting volunteers from PACE to mind our space, aswell as hosts who can SIT in the gallery.
Tom's going to organise our stationery (STEALTH!)
Maybe we can have personalised pencils in the multiples cabinet, with helpful slogans such as...'try not to try'
right-o i think that just about does it! If anyone can think of other things we discussed please attach as a comment, cheers, Andie
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awesome, fast as a flash!
The only thing missing is the discussion of TAC's roles, responsibilities and function which we decided to postpone till mondays meeting.
The following is the follow up email to the Prospect curatorial team;
Hi Heather and Sarah,
Our report back:
Trolley dimensions; 700 x 1320 x 2200
Pick up; 42 Treadwell St, Nae Nae, Lower Hutt, Wellington.
We are still keen on satellite units positioned in other gallery wings.
Wall space; yes please, to use as a docking station where comments
elicited from audience can be displayed - perhaps a couple of metres?
Audio; we too are keen for Audio tracking, and would like to record
something like a walk through with TAC made sometime during the week
of installation.
Some questions:
What other audio downloads will be available for the audience?
Do you know their approx length?
Is there any equipment available for using to record & mix ours?
Is there anything stopping us from providing water for people from the trolley?
Who usually organises the information packs for the gallery hosts?
We are putting together some information about our project for the
gallery hosts with a view to them helping out. Will there be a host
stationed in the east gallery for Prospect and if yes, would it be
possible to station them at the trolley?
choice, thanks heaps - thats all for now, more soon . . .
TAC
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