100 posts!

I want one of these!!
That last post brought our tally up to 100 and what with a wellington association meeting planned for later this week I thought a celebration was in order. Here's an image I came across on the web which tickled my collaborative imagining fancy. It's the work of a Melbourne based collab. duo by the name of A Constructed World and the image caption runs as:
Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin

At long last...Two-fold documentation shots

Flow chart frenzy! 1week decision feedback

Here is our formatted feedback - double click to view.
Taccers please do a close reading because there are some (mostly minor) discrepancies in understanding between members and it would be good to arrive at an overall consensus.
Can we please also feedback further to the suggestions to resolve how best to use "1-Week Decisions".
p.s. Hope you like your designated colours!

lecturer interested in our empty chairs

Hello All,
yesterday I was asked for and gave a senior lecturer at Vic this image of our work from 'Every Now and Then' at Enjoy.
Another collaborator metioned that this fact could be of interest to the rest of TAC so here is our correspondence about the inclusion of our documentation in her Sydney Lecture.
I am not sure what angle she plans to take discussing our work, however I thought even analysis of the problematics of this installation is useful and fitting for our project.
Since some curators have complained when TAC hasd posted their correspondence on this blog, all personal references will be removed....

.....1st Email.....

Dear (Enjoy Gallery Employee),
When you talked to my class you showed an image of the chair arrangement set up by the Assoc of Collaboration as part of Mel Oliver's show at Enjoy.

I wonder if you could send me a copy of this, good enough quality to show in a powerpoint?

I'm talking as part of a panel discussion at Artspace in Sydney which is part of a project called Aftermath which is canvassing the relationship of performance and installation.
Many thanks
(Lecturer)

.....2nd Email.....

Hello (Enjoy Gallery Employee),

I wonder if you could let Paula know which image I mean and get her to send it to me?
Thanks
(Lecturer)

.....3rd Email.....( my reply)

hi (Lecturer),
I have sourced an image of TAC's residual post-meeting chair set up, from towards the end of the 'Every Now and Then' show (after a few TAC meetings). Please confirm that this is what you seek, it should be sized appropriatly for powerpoint.
See attached
best wishes, Paula

.....4th Email.....

perfect
thanks
(Lecturer)

A weekend with the sheep for Mobile Response Unit

Hello TACers!
The Wellington crew have a big weekend ahead with Gregor Kregar's sheep out in Civic Square.
We''ll be there Sunday, eliciting thoughtful and crass feedback alike from 9.30am till 5.30pm...Sweating it out with the baa baas! Get your Welly pals to come visit us.

In the meanitme I emptied the trolley of its tac'ed on responses today to prepare for its sideways journey thru the front door of the City Gallery. I took some snaps as it was looking so amazing and i was sad to de-nude it. : ) p

Where for art thou?

TAC hits paydirt with pencil profits!!

Dear public:
To own your own 'People's Pencil' designed by TAC - as modelled by 'Paula' - please visit City Galley in Civic Square, Wellington, NZ and talk to a nice counter assistant to see our full range of merhandise. Prices start at just NZ$5






That is right folks, we've offically sold 40 pencils at the City Gallery Prospect Multiple Cabinets netting a total of $134.
Woo hoo..another 40 pencils and well be out of the black and into real profit!!

Meeting & CAMRU visit & Flowcharts

Draft version of responses about CAMRU collated into a flowchart. Click to view at readable size.

(Bad photo of) drawing of proposed outpost additions.


Collaborators reading & harvesting the first round of responses for roomsheets.


One example of the conversations that sprout up on the Contemporary Art Mobile Response Unit.


An audible silent response.


Self authored info panel.


Hi all,
we had a power meeting this morning with just 1 hour and the three of us available: Sian, Paula and myself (Liz).
It focused on three main things:

*How to modify the outposts so they can function better as a display for the responses generated in their respective galleries (with view to keeping the responses site specific). We now pose to you that: wires are attatched to the outposts and the mini bulldog clips we are using on the wall down stairs are attatched to the end of the wires for attatching the resposes. Concrete cinder blocks are also suggested - strapped on with the kind of blue tape you see around bundles of newspapers - for raising the height of the outposts - logic - temporary/functional/building site.
We want to get this done ASAP so please lodge your opinions now!!!

*Catalogue inserts: we had a chat about this but Paula has made a posting about it already, so see below: 'what to do with written feedback - catalogue' for that discussion. Additional comments included "that would be like slipping someone a note" and "nice and random".

*Managing distance: how can Andie, Mel and soon Tom contribute to the creative decision making process from their ends and avoid being relegated to the function of 'rubber stamping' decisions that Wellington members make?
We talked about the time-delay involved in making decisions (see above) and discussed the possibility of making calls for the group in peoples absence: when is this appropriate and when is this not? and the need for members to initiate potential new ideas for current and new projects from their end: see Andie's new post below for pre-emptive movement on that front!!

THEN:

We went next door to the city gallery and took away all of the responses (off the wall and the trolley) that had been around for a while (with help from an attentive gallery host) and Sian now has them to document. Since that meeting I have contacted Tom and Mel, fielded their (positive) reactions to the alternative roomsheet idea. We should be on task to collate responses into seperate piles for each work, and send them out to all us talented writers to collate compile and draft up an incorporative collective take on an alternative room sheet for situating next to Heather's.
This is going to be a creative challenge i rekon, so lets share methodologies in a similar way to the process we went through when making the flowcharts.

xxliz

Conversational Ramble

some quick shots of a few responses from CAMRU

& some thoughts that have been floating around in me 'ed...

wanted to say thanks thanks thanks to Tom and Sian for taking the responsibility for the artists talk - a big thing to step up to, all public forum like! Sounds like there were some persistent questioners in the audience, (usual suspects!) and the angle that Heather Galbraith took on the self help language seems to be solidifying as her curatorial reading of our work - I'd be keen to hear more about that discussion, and to talk about how we are thinking on that (self help) reading...

Also wanted to mention that I was frustrated not to be there myself, to answer to some of the 'how did it begin' questions and any murky misunderstandings about group authorship that I was anticipating coming up - on reflection of your comment Tom, maybe we should have made it a priority for all of us to be at the talk - and i was also thinking (and Paula suggested) it might have suited us better to make our talk to the end of the exhibition, when the project would be a little more rounded up, and talk would centre around things that happened and conclusions we/public responses came to. No regrets, just thinking in terms of next time - always difficult with process based projects to get the timing right!

Glad to hear the scrap book is working - how you are using it sounds great Sian - I had an idea that we could start drafting up a more formal 'alternative curatorial voice' by sorting through and surveying/paraphrasing the responses. I rekon it could be tongue in cheek - " popcorn mountain ellicits a strong public desire to get naked and disturb in its pyrimidal perfection, to kick it, eat it, and ultimately sweat out the viewing restraint required to comply with the institutional directive - DONT TOUCH!!!"
or something to that effect - whaddya rekon? Then we could pop them in the same place as Heathers info sheets...

Cool, look forward to next meet up - x liz

Images of CAMRU at the City Gallery

The trolley is currently located (23/2/07) in the West Gallery in Prospect at the City Gallery, amongst the Geometric Abstractionists (next to Judy Millar and Miranda Parkes)
The wall is filling up fast and has been edited by hosts, TAC and the public occaisionally. Edits are open ended, and editors are just asked to expain their 'rule of edit'. To date some edits have been based on:
-removing food or eating based responses
-taking off advertising and grandstanding posts
-removing some non-orange posts to allow a dominance of this colour through the middle of the wall
-relevancy to prospect show
-swear words are removed by the City Gallery decency incentive (woah!)

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Images of unfinished trolley unit/lift height

Here's some pics of the trolley under construction at Nae Nae in Tyree's workshop.
The bottom photo shows the trolley awaiting City Gallery pickup truck a few days after the images above it were taken.


Phew! The trolley will fit in the lift!
It's taller than 2.2metres I'm sure of it.

Vote for images from TAC's Enjoy show

Hey all, here are 4 images 1 - 4 from the top. I think we'll be able to publish 2 or 3 at the most so please list your fave two, with an optional third if you like. (e.g. #3,4 and optional 1) FYI for #2 when the image is bigger you can see wall writing.

We need to know what we all want to have published with Andie's discussion transcript for 'Hue and Cry'
We have lots of shots, but pretty much all the same at mo. Do we need another action shot? During construction perhaps? Can Mel supply? Or is this going to do for this publication? We can always use different images for the prospect catalogue.

Documentation of Every Now, And Then

Paula or Mel could you please email me some pics taken from Every Now, And Then? Do we have any images of the chairs in a circle like in Mark Amery's article and/or of the wall brainstorm? Would everyone be happy for the possible inclusion of these images alongside an edited discussion transcript to be included in Hue and Cry? (discussion transcript soon to be posted!)
Andie

Provisional drawing of TAC trolley

Sketched out by Liz, Sian and Paula
This drawing is provisional, we just need to get something done to look at before Saturday's meeting. I hope yopu can see the little notes with the details of what is what.
We have dicussed beginning construction on Sunday 14 Jan and Sian's partner has offered to build it. Anyone keen to help (you're all needed!) is welcome to join in at Sian's place in Naenae on Sunday. More details at the meeting.
The essence of time's passing nature has occured to me...I'm sure i'm not alone on that.

Paula