Sorry for the delay guys I've got a whopping 3000 word essay due at the moment on the scintillating topic of Arts Policy in Australia. But I've had a few conversations about TAC and how we might approach the Next wave brief and have come up with some ideas (not all my own) that I thought I might put out there and see what you think...
as TAC we stand for:
-collaboration
-audience interaction/participation
-questioning of frameworks (collaborative and institutional)
The Next wave brief alludes to:
-globalization (media driven?)
- the break down of public and private
eg.'The collapse of the private sphere into the public and the increasing tendency to live out our personal lives in very impersonal arenas'- A big part of globalization and the inherent blurring of public and private is the increasing number of interactions-whether mediated or face to face. YAC examines what potential these interactions have for critical, democratic or productive dialogue + exchange.
Drawing on genres of realityshows (global media phenomenon) and big screens at sports events (public/private) TAC members interview Next Wave audiences and employees asking TAc art-type questions. These interactions are filmed digitally and films are displayed at Next Wave and maybe globally online.
As well as continuing TACs practice from PROSPECT, the turning of these exchanges into public artworks addresses the breakdown of public/private spheres etc.
TAC questions,
-are people open and genuine in their responses, or fake/shy etc?
-does mediating lead to genuine production exchange or do people see this an an invasion of privacy etc?
Putting how people respond to art under the lense may give an interesting picture of how it all works.
ALTERNATIVELY we could document the audience of Next Wave by taking their photo (polaroids?) and ask them to write their response to the exhibition/event they have just attended at the base of the photo, set up as some kind of central station area with a pinboard or something. Kind of Vox-Pop-like. Not as true to the 'process' as video but less maintenance for us.
ANOTHER IDEA
is that we collaborate with another Next Wave contender.Perhaps even invite them to join the collaboration? She is a long time reader of our blog and curator of sister cities- which is quite fitting- i am wary about spilling her proposal online, perhaps if she's reading this she might post it in a comment herself? She's based in melbourne of course, which would be hugely helpful if we were to collaborate. her next wave proposal has been conspired in partnership so she needs to discuss the possibility of colllaborating with us with her co-proposer first. Because the next wave brief talks of technology etc their work is more domestic and personable which i think will be refreshing. Actually providing refreshments at the various next wave events/exhibits makes up a good part of the form and function of their work. i think there is a little bit of an overlap between our practice and theirs which would make it an ideal collaboration.
OR....?
an idea-posed by the aforementioned contender, might be to set up an art and artists dating service?! kind of like a switchboard between melbourne and wellington, with profiles on different artists. maybe it could be a way to connect artists with curators and vice-versa? I envisage this to be played out in a booth using one of those old library catalogue systems, with the little drawers. perhaps we could profile 10 nz artists and 10 australian artists and invite those interested to contact us with their tastes and interests, then match em' up. The development of their correspondence is not our concern.
This could also lead to more contacts for us to draw from in future projects for TAC?
The deadline for next wave is FRIDAY the 30th of MARCH! that's just over a week away!!!
I'm confident we can whip something up if we can make a consensual decision in time. failing that, maybe we could hook up a sattelite show. Maybe we decide we dont want to work within the confines of the institution afterall-or whatever it was that was criticised about us in the Listener?
Looking forward to your comments!
xxA
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thanks for generating all those great ideas andie. i'll send some proper time reading them after tomorro night, as i have a show that i've curated opening then and i'm flat out till then.
p.s. i read between the lines and i reckon having jessie join TAC is a great idea, regardless of whatever else happens with next wave.
great, I am liking the sound/image/potential of the interview idea - i like the: Inter View
as a genre which could be some kind of portall for addressing the [perceptual, conceptual, physical]distance between subjects...
-and the idea of art questionaires is a potential follow on development from the CAMRU works - especially in the direction of testing the potential of the video format for a creation of 'critical, democratic or productive dialogue + exchange' =qualitative or quantitative assesment [science based]? or art mecurial murkiness'...
Am also excited about the potential for more team melbourne collaborators and am excited that their ideas could feed into a conversation which develops a giant collaborative idea... there is real potential for inter view / connection / host - visitor stuff, and Jessie's romance with romance formats could be a new thematic edge (Hi Jessie - I think you should SPILL your beans on these ideas soon, but maybe you could make an introduction to TAC so Sian and Tom can get a sense of your background concerns first? if its too wierd to do it online you could email it to Tac's google account - private public!!!
I think we need to try having some kind of chatroom meeting with everyone online so that we can talk about this potential movement and some of this ideas stuff --- fast!
Any one familiar with how to set one up? I can have a research and report back but if any one does know then it would save me/us precious time...
Will think on this stuff more and get back in the next couple of days, ps andie - great breakdown!!!
Hi guys
just finished work yesterday so have some time for blogging and thinking before moving. yah!!
thanks for putting up these ideas andie, they made interesting reading.
i think im a proponent for doing some kind of trans-tasman collaboration - i think it would be great to see our geographical distance from melbourne as a really exciting and interesting aspect of what we could do.
i definitely like the idea also of artist/curator match up, but the project would have to be done carefully, so as it wasn't too forced or contrived?
i think that that sort of project would also have some on going potential to continue post match up. it would awesome to see any projects come out of the meetings, and talking to the collaborators could bring out some great stuff for the tool kit!
i think is a meeting is definitely in order..........but my computer illiteracy prevents me being much help in set one up, but will see what i can do.
hey guys I've sent out an email but just to repeat myself it'd be FAB if you could email a recent copy of your CVs to the association email account, I'll print them off and include them with our proposal (as soon as we know what exactly we will propose)
thanks xA
HI there,
DAmn it I left a huge comment here adn it hasn't worked I just realised! So I will try to remember the salient points of what it said.
I like the idea of the interview thing, but think we need to make sure we make it really comfortable for people to do. I reckon the great thing with the trolley is that it is so approachable and that's partly becuase it looks like an icecream trolley or something from the 'real world' . So I wonder whether we could incorporate that into any design we do for Next Wave. Build on our sucesses as it were.
Also in terms of the interview thing, I thought that as well as us doing the interview, we could possibly set up spaces where people could just hang out and chat, so making it less like we are the experts and more like opening the field for everyone's views and thoughts?
Also with CAMRU the documentation and processing the responses is er a pretty big job, so we may need to think of easier ways to get them into a usable format?
In terms of teh dating thing, I reckon we should get artists to write a sell er thing about themselves like you would if you were going onto a dating site. You know 'I am 24 like making things out of paper by soft candlelight....' etc et. Then it makes it more even we ask for submissions from NZ and OZ and then we have a notice board adn people can choose which artists attract them? Then we aren't the choosers of the people?
X Gotta run Sian
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