well folks, congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! - the Contemporary Art Mobile Response Unit is installed and with the help of ourselves and the hosts is undergoing functionality testing... post your responses - celebratory and critical - in the comments section below!
Next meeting is scheduled for Sat morning 9.30 and so please use this forum to contribute to the agenda also (esp Andie and Mel!!!).
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congratulations everyone!! how was it received??
So I am feeling very proud of us!! I think that so far CAMRU has been a great sucess. i think it's great how people are just using it quite naturally without any need often for intervention.
It's really interesting how lots of people seem to want to draw pictures or leave wuite poetic responses. It's like their response to the art is that they want to make some art themselves. Although we had thought that we wanted more indepth responses or something but I think that is a really in depth response like to leave something which is pretty personal and emotional or revealing or whatever. I'm glad that CAMRU is open enough for people to want to do that.
In terms of more in depth responses I think we shoudl allow the project to evolve to a certain extent how it does rather than trying to dictate what exactly we want from people too much.
Perhaps we are uncovering something about how people feel left out or excluded by museums and want to be included? I am just astounded by how readily people want to engage with it.
Feedback I have had is that how are we going to deal with lots of responses over the show and that we should try and somehow keep them in the arrangements they are in because people are placing them next to other responses that they want to respond to. It is becoming a relational artwork all of tis own!!
Oh and I thought we all looked and were fabulous at the opening x And wished you were there Andie!
hi andie! thanks :)
The general reception I've had access to so far has been positive too - especially to the trolley as an object (its a dazzler!).
Gallery visitors are making use of the materials and having fun with repsponding in lots of different ways (lots of pictures, cutouts and collage) and from lots of different angles.
Good point sian about the development of the conversation in the placement of the notes - tom pointed one out to me that was a critical respose to someone elses critical response that she had found on the desk bit of the trolley - awesome!
Have had a solid critical comment from a past lecturer who suggested that the outposts seemed a little apologetic - polite i think was her word - in comparison to the main unit ( size being a factor) and that perhaps they were superfluous or weakening.
It is true that the outposts with their orange folders and clipboards aren't as busy so far - perhaps because of the associations with officialness? perhaps - possibly need to change them up a bit -- most of the responses produced on the trolley are made on the colourful and small note size paper - I have added some of this to one of the outposts to trial out.
Any ideas for improvements/ additions? I rekon we should keep making resources that respond to the interests developing within the responses, add to and develop a real conversation between TAC and the gallery visitors that way - rather than trying to dictate an agenda, like sian mentioned.
We have had a request for copies of our origional resources - check our gmail for details.
The pencils are looking hot too! We have allocated 5 for each of us to take home and then the rest can be bought at cost - email your address and we'll send some over to you!
There's lots more to report - but I'm heading over to an Enjoy opening now - hope you & S are good in Melbourne!! talk soon x
Apologetic outposts? That's no good!! Perhaps we could make them bigger I guess like keep the same format but make the tops of them bigger? Put them on orange plinths to make them higher? I think thats' the issue is that they are low and so they maybe seem a little inconsequential? I wonder too about putting a fold out chair with them so that people can take that and sit down and hang out with the works they want to think about?
Also we could potenitally build some kind of stucture onto or around them which would mean that notes etc could actually be attached to the very outposts? Thus making them response repositories and bigger all at the same time?
I will be bringing a trip of peeps from Pablos down to the show on next Friday at around 2pm. Any other members of the Association keen to be there to talk to them?
On artists talk, I reckon we shoudl be there as many of us as possible cos otherwise you get one spokesperson and it's wierd; that person has to speak for the otehrs etc etc.
See you tom morning!
yeah, i like your suggestion about adapting the posts so that notes can be stuck on, we need another late night drawing session at the pub i rekon. What about using the wall behind the posts though? we could try it out?
Do you guys wanna try out putting one of the plastic chairs by an outpost to see if it gets used when you're in the gallery tomorrow?
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