From memory:
Lets get the Clubs exchange project moving. Tom and Liz (and now Paula too) are in Melbourne in May so lets hook up with Andie and have a meeting and then go talk to Clubs.
Liz to email Enjoy and investigate support options, Tom to email Andie and suss out who to contact (is that right? or was it Mel - i have forgotten).
Conversation as to the possibilities of project revolved around a poster idea, in keeping with resource form and providing a description of the transition from individual to group mentality.
Showing posts with label Future Projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future Projects. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2008
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
stepping out
well...
in light of Sians departure from Tac the (now) two wellington-based members have decided we definitely need to make a priority of finding more collaborators.
The way we see it, a down-scaled unfunded run of posters will do the job just fine. Cheap and cheery, black and white, photocopier printed and distributed over the next couple of months with a plan to meet up in the new year.
It seems practical that there won't be much real action until around late January - considering that, I think we should work towards planning a hoolie of us all around that time in Wellington. Also, by that stage Toms move back won't be far off the horizon. (land ahoy!)
Above is a pre pre pre idea for poster, see comments for a draft of an email to be sent out to potential interested peoples.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
TAC meeting minutes adn discussion points
TAC meeting Monday 27th August
I have organised the points into the three agenda areas so it is easier to read. This means that it is not sequential as the meetings actually ran but will be clearer to follow. Points which require feedback have been marked in italics.
All of the below is my subjective note taking and is open to correction, suggestion, comment, feedback etc.
NEW MEMBERS
All are agreed that we need new members.
Suggestion that new members should be recruited in each area of the diaspora.
Blog would then become group to group post rather than internal communication.
Name suggestions; TAC Wellington, TAC Christchurch etc. The when we do something together we would be TAC United?
So, with suggested new members involved, each TAC project would become under their own regional control. Each group needs to be activated and able to act. Esp as noted by recent problems with blog re communication, loss of energy for group etc.
A group focus could be feeding into a new bio / manifesto which could be used to create a new members pack. Enough history to provide an orientation.
Importance of the power structure remaining level discussed. No experts. Decision making should be consensual.
Manifesto should not be too solid / prescriptive etc. Open; like how we have recorded our processes as conversations. New members could get the assessment of CAMRU as a conversational piece in new members pack.
Differentiation between tac groups can develop. Each group could contribute a chapter to the kit. Organic. There would be a natural progression according to each group’s interests.
Value of the initial openness of the call to TAC. Diverse range of people.
Could use photos in orientation/new members pack.
NEW MEMBERS SUMMARY
New members in each centre
Each centre deciding on how to recruit it’s own members
Create an orientation kit for new members – (photos, manifesto, CAMRU assessment?)
KIT
Use the aesthetic of CAMRU like the scattered notes. Give artists / organisations a page where they could write / draw whatever about their experiences in collaboration.
Flow chart model
Open structure for other collaborative structures to engage with.
Non-directive and non-definitive. Can keep being added to. Could be like a ring binder with new chapters / blank pages.
FUTURE PROJECTS
Developing and spreading TAC
Becoming The Association of Collaborations, ie finding ways to be inclusive of other groups without them having to be part of the every day running. Pages in kit are one way.
Funding application to Creative Communities Wellington. Idea of creating posters about TAC to create interest in group / ideas / new members. Then packs could be sent out after this. This would be relevant for Wellington audience. Other groups apply in own districts? Or may prefer alternative methods of recruitment?
Poster ideas; disseminating info, drawings, text, a series of three, drawing of writing on wall at Enjoy? Good to have a visual project to keep interest up aesthetically. Good to have another tangible project this year.
CAMRU ASSESS – questions for the group
Input are Tom’s questions and Andie’s musings previously on blog.
Discussed these and own input and came up with following Q’s;
What were our individual expectations of the CAMRU project?
What did it do?
What TAC processes worked well?
What TAC processes didn’t work so well?
How effective was CAMRU in communicating with an audience?
What did the responses tell us that was valuable towards understanding the Prospect show?
I have organised the points into the three agenda areas so it is easier to read. This means that it is not sequential as the meetings actually ran but will be clearer to follow. Points which require feedback have been marked in italics.
All of the below is my subjective note taking and is open to correction, suggestion, comment, feedback etc.
NEW MEMBERS
All are agreed that we need new members.
Suggestion that new members should be recruited in each area of the diaspora.
Blog would then become group to group post rather than internal communication.
Name suggestions; TAC Wellington, TAC Christchurch etc. The when we do something together we would be TAC United?
So, with suggested new members involved, each TAC project would become under their own regional control. Each group needs to be activated and able to act. Esp as noted by recent problems with blog re communication, loss of energy for group etc.
A group focus could be feeding into a new bio / manifesto which could be used to create a new members pack. Enough history to provide an orientation.
Importance of the power structure remaining level discussed. No experts. Decision making should be consensual.
Manifesto should not be too solid / prescriptive etc. Open; like how we have recorded our processes as conversations. New members could get the assessment of CAMRU as a conversational piece in new members pack.
Differentiation between tac groups can develop. Each group could contribute a chapter to the kit. Organic. There would be a natural progression according to each group’s interests.
Value of the initial openness of the call to TAC. Diverse range of people.
Could use photos in orientation/new members pack.
NEW MEMBERS SUMMARY
New members in each centre
Each centre deciding on how to recruit it’s own members
Create an orientation kit for new members – (photos, manifesto, CAMRU assessment?)
KIT
Use the aesthetic of CAMRU like the scattered notes. Give artists / organisations a page where they could write / draw whatever about their experiences in collaboration.
Flow chart model
Open structure for other collaborative structures to engage with.
Non-directive and non-definitive. Can keep being added to. Could be like a ring binder with new chapters / blank pages.
FUTURE PROJECTS
Developing and spreading TAC
Becoming The Association of Collaborations, ie finding ways to be inclusive of other groups without them having to be part of the every day running. Pages in kit are one way.
Funding application to Creative Communities Wellington. Idea of creating posters about TAC to create interest in group / ideas / new members. Then packs could be sent out after this. This would be relevant for Wellington audience. Other groups apply in own districts? Or may prefer alternative methods of recruitment?
Poster ideas; disseminating info, drawings, text, a series of three, drawing of writing on wall at Enjoy? Good to have a visual project to keep interest up aesthetically. Good to have another tangible project this year.
CAMRU ASSESS – questions for the group
Input are Tom’s questions and Andie’s musings previously on blog.
Discussed these and own input and came up with following Q’s;
What were our individual expectations of the CAMRU project?
What did it do?
What TAC processes worked well?
What TAC processes didn’t work so well?
How effective was CAMRU in communicating with an audience?
What did the responses tell us that was valuable towards understanding the Prospect show?
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Assessment of Prospect
I've been thinking about the necessity of assessing TAC's activity in Prospect in order that me may move onto greener pastures with clear directives, awareness of successes and failures and evident focuses. I don't know if the Wellington meeting of TAC has gone ahead or any discussion has been had a about this?
I thought that since we are all now spread around corners of the globe, one way to collect and assess would be to draw up a number of questions to which each TAC member could respond (perhaps by using the email system). After this we could analyse, assess, see if there are any similarities or wild discrepancies in our responses.
I also thought that these written responses could also partially be used in future documentation of process and potentially some of it could even be re-worked for the toolkit if we decide that is something we want to go ahead with.
A few questions I had thought of so far were:
1. At what stage did you feel most comfortable with TAC's processes?
2. How effective did you feel the trolley project was in engaging with a community wider than the art community?
3. If you could have changed a process in the development of the trolley project, what would you have changed? Why?
ps Best title award goes to Sian for title previous to this one :)
I thought that since we are all now spread around corners of the globe, one way to collect and assess would be to draw up a number of questions to which each TAC member could respond (perhaps by using the email system). After this we could analyse, assess, see if there are any similarities or wild discrepancies in our responses.
I also thought that these written responses could also partially be used in future documentation of process and potentially some of it could even be re-worked for the toolkit if we decide that is something we want to go ahead with.
A few questions I had thought of so far were:
1. At what stage did you feel most comfortable with TAC's processes?
2. How effective did you feel the trolley project was in engaging with a community wider than the art community?
3. If you could have changed a process in the development of the trolley project, what would you have changed? Why?
ps Best title award goes to Sian for title previous to this one :)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Kit chat
Hi hi
Having looked at that photo and thought it was great.....and also being a good TACCER and making a new post rather than taccing on to the old one with a new subject.....AND using labels.
PHEW.
Anyway. My great idea was about thinking about the kit. And thinking that the element I liked the most about what we did was that it was open and as unjudgemental as we could be. People got to say what they liked and let it be seen. So I wondered if the kit could look something like that? With illustrations and photos like the chairs one and lots of images of peoples comments and stuff rather than long and verbose. Like Liz's visual flowchart was so great and enticing because it looked interesting and good.
My thought is that by describing the project in yummy pictures we create a space for people to think about how they think about artwork and what they want from it and what collaboration is and whether we really were collaborating with the audience or not etc.
I am also thinking about the booklet that MW (is that right?!) made in their Enjoy residency where they asked a bunch of people to describe negative space. Non prescriptive and open and had the feeling that lots more idea could have been added to it too of your own.
Maybe the TAC kit could have blank pages at the end for people to work things out / add to / colour in ?!?!? I guess I just like that idea of it being like a continual work in progress.
PS and no spelling mistakes x
Having looked at that photo and thought it was great.....and also being a good TACCER and making a new post rather than taccing on to the old one with a new subject.....AND using labels.
PHEW.
Anyway. My great idea was about thinking about the kit. And thinking that the element I liked the most about what we did was that it was open and as unjudgemental as we could be. People got to say what they liked and let it be seen. So I wondered if the kit could look something like that? With illustrations and photos like the chairs one and lots of images of peoples comments and stuff rather than long and verbose. Like Liz's visual flowchart was so great and enticing because it looked interesting and good.
My thought is that by describing the project in yummy pictures we create a space for people to think about how they think about artwork and what they want from it and what collaboration is and whether we really were collaborating with the audience or not etc.
I am also thinking about the booklet that MW (is that right?!) made in their Enjoy residency where they asked a bunch of people to describe negative space. Non prescriptive and open and had the feeling that lots more idea could have been added to it too of your own.
Maybe the TAC kit could have blank pages at the end for people to work things out / add to / colour in ?!?!? I guess I just like that idea of it being like a continual work in progress.
PS and no spelling mistakes x
Saturday, August 04, 2007
CAMRU home?
Hi all,
So just another practical thing to think about. CAMRU is currently housed in our church / studio space. We have positioned her in a corner so she is taking up the minimum of space.......but it still is rather a lot of space. I am conscious that the corner is in Tyree's workspace and she is making lots more work in there at the moment.
I guess we need to consider a more long term solution ie storage or dismantlement or gift or sale or?! I am loathe to dismantle it after all the work, but I also can't store it indefinately. Perhaps we could consider some other uses for it?
One thing I had wondered was if it could be used as something to do with the Fringe Festival? Very vague ideas at the moment, but I just know that is a really public and outdoor event where it reaches lots of non art audiences................
Could it be somehow used to gather information or be a public beacon for finding out about people's collaborative thoughts / experiences? Could it be the locus for launching a booklet?!
X Sian
So just another practical thing to think about. CAMRU is currently housed in our church / studio space. We have positioned her in a corner so she is taking up the minimum of space.......but it still is rather a lot of space. I am conscious that the corner is in Tyree's workspace and she is making lots more work in there at the moment.
I guess we need to consider a more long term solution ie storage or dismantlement or gift or sale or?! I am loathe to dismantle it after all the work, but I also can't store it indefinately. Perhaps we could consider some other uses for it?
One thing I had wondered was if it could be used as something to do with the Fringe Festival? Very vague ideas at the moment, but I just know that is a really public and outdoor event where it reaches lots of non art audiences................
Could it be somehow used to gather information or be a public beacon for finding out about people's collaborative thoughts / experiences? Could it be the locus for launching a booklet?!
X Sian
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Two-fold: the low down...
Hey guys
Welcome back! ☺
Tom thanks for volunteering to be the treasurer- you be a treasure! And congrats also on your show at HSP it looks really good
So in terms of this two-fold show, I’m sorry for sounding a bit vague last time, basically the focus is on curatorship students who are also practicing artists. Originally the exhibition was going to be a showcase for curatorship students to share what they’ve been up to. However I thought that might turn into a bit of a mixed bag and since Angela and I decided to co-curate the show together we've developed the concept for the show towards challenging curatorial frameworks through artistic practice. Some other artist/curators for example are examining documentation or the support materials that accompany exhibitions, one artist is working in collaboration with a sculptor to make an interactive object- whereby the viewer constructs the work, there are some amazing cabinets that are dying to be used as a wunderkammer but I’m not sure if that will be realised. I’m hoping to create a TAC reading area- so really I’m not proposing a new project as such for TAC, but rather I thought of using documentation of past examples (such as our Prospect room sheets) as a starting point for discussion about some of the issues that haven’t been addressed in our course (such as self-organised projects, working collaboratively and the perception/positioning of art that aims to be socially engaging).
Alternatively I could just create a reading corner without any TAC related material if you’d prefer, but, what are your thoughts?
Andie
p.s. guess what guess what? I got a job working as ‘Project Officer’ for the South Project!!
Welcome back! ☺
Tom thanks for volunteering to be the treasurer- you be a treasure! And congrats also on your show at HSP it looks really good
So in terms of this two-fold show, I’m sorry for sounding a bit vague last time, basically the focus is on curatorship students who are also practicing artists. Originally the exhibition was going to be a showcase for curatorship students to share what they’ve been up to. However I thought that might turn into a bit of a mixed bag and since Angela and I decided to co-curate the show together we've developed the concept for the show towards challenging curatorial frameworks through artistic practice. Some other artist/curators for example are examining documentation or the support materials that accompany exhibitions, one artist is working in collaboration with a sculptor to make an interactive object- whereby the viewer constructs the work, there are some amazing cabinets that are dying to be used as a wunderkammer but I’m not sure if that will be realised. I’m hoping to create a TAC reading area- so really I’m not proposing a new project as such for TAC, but rather I thought of using documentation of past examples (such as our Prospect room sheets) as a starting point for discussion about some of the issues that haven’t been addressed in our course (such as self-organised projects, working collaboratively and the perception/positioning of art that aims to be socially engaging).
Alternatively I could just create a reading corner without any TAC related material if you’d prefer, but, what are your thoughts?
Andie
p.s. guess what guess what? I got a job working as ‘Project Officer’ for the South Project!!
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
george paton gallery who ?what? yes let's!
Hey me again
I've been invited to participate in a group show of curated by a fellow curatorship student who back in the 90s (I think) was involved in a group of VCA (Victorian College of the Arts) who started up an ARI called 'Talk'. It was quite a good one I think, anyway the curator was invited by fellow 'Talk' artist/writer/curator and George Paton gallery co-ordinator Sandra Bridie to propose a show. So far the show is looking at curatorship students who are also practising artists. However the curator is adamant she doesnt want the show to just be an opportunity to show their work, but rather set it up as a place for issues regarding contemporary curatorship to be discussed. I was hesitant at first to participate because I don't really think of myself as an artist. I've met the curator and told her about TAC and wondered about the possibility of exhibiting documentation of our work as part of the show.
Of course it is very early days and I havent met any of the other artists yet and don't know how their work will shape the show but I just wanted to post this now to get some feedback from the group. I don't want to stand for TAC but i thought maybe documentation of our work could serve to introduce topics for discussion as part of the exhibition?
look forward to hearing your thoughts
xA
I've been invited to participate in a group show of curated by a fellow curatorship student who back in the 90s (I think) was involved in a group of VCA (Victorian College of the Arts) who started up an ARI called 'Talk'. It was quite a good one I think, anyway the curator was invited by fellow 'Talk' artist/writer/curator and George Paton gallery co-ordinator Sandra Bridie to propose a show. So far the show is looking at curatorship students who are also practising artists. However the curator is adamant she doesnt want the show to just be an opportunity to show their work, but rather set it up as a place for issues regarding contemporary curatorship to be discussed. I was hesitant at first to participate because I don't really think of myself as an artist. I've met the curator and told her about TAC and wondered about the possibility of exhibiting documentation of our work as part of the show.
Of course it is very early days and I havent met any of the other artists yet and don't know how their work will shape the show but I just wanted to post this now to get some feedback from the group. I don't want to stand for TAC but i thought maybe documentation of our work could serve to introduce topics for discussion as part of the exhibition?
look forward to hearing your thoughts
xA
success and failure
Hey guys I just thought maybe we should take some time to reflect on what we consider to be our successes and failures so far...
SUCCESSES:
How things worked out with Heather and Sarah, the way they were open to our unsolicited roomsheets,and the inclusion of visitors' post it notes in the catalogue, etc. The way we allowed for a previously silent audience to participate in art dialogue and discourse alongside the curator. (Limits to this: censorship, not totally democratic-we chose some voices over others, CAMRU initiated dialogue still contained and framed within wider prospect curatorial discourse)
Public response in terms of volume of feedback/post its.
POTENTIAL ISSUES/FAILURES?
criticisms in Artbashthe catalogue and the listener- eg our work was patronising (to an art informed audience) are these points that we want to address? How? Can our work be aimed at these people?
Levels of participation by TAC members- we all have had different availability-working together long distance etc
Misconceptions that TAC is a liz/Enjoy project
Any thoughts? Maybe some other issues came up back on the day of the artist talk?
xA
SUCCESSES:
How things worked out with Heather and Sarah, the way they were open to our unsolicited roomsheets,and the inclusion of visitors' post it notes in the catalogue, etc. The way we allowed for a previously silent audience to participate in art dialogue and discourse alongside the curator. (Limits to this: censorship, not totally democratic-we chose some voices over others, CAMRU initiated dialogue still contained and framed within wider prospect curatorial discourse)
Public response in terms of volume of feedback/post its.
POTENTIAL ISSUES/FAILURES?
criticisms in Artbashthe catalogue and the listener- eg our work was patronising (to an art informed audience) are these points that we want to address? How? Can our work be aimed at these people?
Levels of participation by TAC members- we all have had different availability-working together long distance etc
Misconceptions that TAC is a liz/Enjoy project
Any thoughts? Maybe some other issues came up back on the day of the artist talk?
xA
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
New members wrapping up CAMRU
I been thinking and I reckon we should think about inviting some new members to the group. Online is good but it would also be great to have some more peeps in welly. And I wonder whether we should just be quite open in who it is or select? And when we should start looking if we decide we do want to, cos what is our next project....what more do we want to do with the CAMRU info and would new people be interested in that or should we do collating etc ourselves and then invite new people to a new project?
My suggestions are that at the end of the show we do what we have done for the room sheets; ie document the responses and sort them into groups and condense them into an appropriate format. And then they could be made into a document or part of the kit or an online thing.
Then we look for new people who are interested in researching other collaborative structures, to move forward with the kit.
RE the kit; is this still something we want to do? Who do we think the audience is? How much information do we already have which we can use for it ? ( I think we have quite a lot and that we could use making the kit as a kind of debrief session which we had discussed before ie we could all write down what we think has worked well adn not so well in our group and this could start to form part of the kit.)
Personally I have to admit I am all about the art. I am not that interested in going to talk to other groups about thier structures. i am interested in collaboration in an art context and how it works in terms of authorship, ownership, how the magic still gets to happen which so often happens in solitary confinement of the studio........why collaboration is currently important / trendy / contemporary..............all that kind of stuff. Perhaps we would be able to look at areas which interest each of us?
But I do think we have a lot of info already which we haven't put down in terms of how the process has worked for us which we could start by using.
Hmm. What do others think?!
X S
My suggestions are that at the end of the show we do what we have done for the room sheets; ie document the responses and sort them into groups and condense them into an appropriate format. And then they could be made into a document or part of the kit or an online thing.
Then we look for new people who are interested in researching other collaborative structures, to move forward with the kit.
RE the kit; is this still something we want to do? Who do we think the audience is? How much information do we already have which we can use for it ? ( I think we have quite a lot and that we could use making the kit as a kind of debrief session which we had discussed before ie we could all write down what we think has worked well adn not so well in our group and this could start to form part of the kit.)
Personally I have to admit I am all about the art. I am not that interested in going to talk to other groups about thier structures. i am interested in collaboration in an art context and how it works in terms of authorship, ownership, how the magic still gets to happen which so often happens in solitary confinement of the studio........why collaboration is currently important / trendy / contemporary..............all that kind of stuff. Perhaps we would be able to look at areas which interest each of us?
But I do think we have a lot of info already which we haven't put down in terms of how the process has worked for us which we could start by using.
Hmm. What do others think?!
X S
Monday, April 02, 2007
Collational activity
greetings all from merry chch,
thanks for feedback on 'negative response collation'. perhaps to avoid excessive negativity we could wait until the positive reponses have been collated from across the tasman and produce those in tandem?? this would perhaps create a better balance, and potentially get some good conversations going between the respondees (i'm making up words today).
also, i thought that the little blurb (in grey?) which was on sian and liz's collation could be transferred as a brief ending for all of the collations. it sounded quite universal i thought. how much longer does prospect even run for? i've lost track of time..........
and, um, other stuff.....HSP would love some pencils to sell down here! there is a little spot in the reading room which i would love to fill up with orangeness!!
also, just a little thing to think about. HSP is all about the off site projects this year. we even have a new position to coordinate these, and we are busy coming up with new and exiciting ideas. i realise we are all very busy, and thinking about lots of different projects. but i thought that this might be a great way to faciliate a TAC project in chch sometime in the future. whether it be talks, workshops, investigation of local art community, a publication, a discussion, perhaps even a collaboration toolkit!! i'm just planting the seed in all of your minds (speaking of seeds, one has to be careful of falling acorns in chch, they are quite sore on the old noodle!!)
hope you are all well, and miss you all heaps xxxx
thanks for feedback on 'negative response collation'. perhaps to avoid excessive negativity we could wait until the positive reponses have been collated from across the tasman and produce those in tandem?? this would perhaps create a better balance, and potentially get some good conversations going between the respondees (i'm making up words today).
also, i thought that the little blurb (in grey?) which was on sian and liz's collation could be transferred as a brief ending for all of the collations. it sounded quite universal i thought. how much longer does prospect even run for? i've lost track of time..........
and, um, other stuff.....HSP would love some pencils to sell down here! there is a little spot in the reading room which i would love to fill up with orangeness!!
also, just a little thing to think about. HSP is all about the off site projects this year. we even have a new position to coordinate these, and we are busy coming up with new and exiciting ideas. i realise we are all very busy, and thinking about lots of different projects. but i thought that this might be a great way to faciliate a TAC project in chch sometime in the future. whether it be talks, workshops, investigation of local art community, a publication, a discussion, perhaps even a collaboration toolkit!! i'm just planting the seed in all of your minds (speaking of seeds, one has to be careful of falling acorns in chch, they are quite sore on the old noodle!!)
hope you are all well, and miss you all heaps xxxx
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Question Ideas & Meeting Minutes - 29/3/07
The upshot of the meeting was back to Collaborative Kit research, starting by formulating some questions to ask those interested and involved in collaborative processes. This is intended to give us a better idea of potential content and an understanding of who might use a resource on collaborative processes. See comments for partially edited meeting minutes where we threw these ideas around and as a repositary for your contributions & question ideas.
And after a frustrating attempt to chat between 5 people in googleland it's back to the drawing board on how to talk online!
- LIz
And after a frustrating attempt to chat between 5 people in googleland it's back to the drawing board on how to talk online!
- LIz
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Closer Together
hello!
I just got an email about next wave 2008, which is well a whole year awaybut got me thinking about the possibility of our involvement given the theme which is CLOSER TOGETHER, here look i'll cut and paste the info for ya..
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"Applications are now open for the 2008 Next Wave Festival!
We are calling for proposals from projects across artforms, to be a part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival program, which respond to the festival theme, Closer Together.
Applications are due on FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2007 at 5pm.
Further information and application forms can be downloaded from Next Wave's website at www.nextwave.org.au . Alternatively, email nextwave @ nextwave.org.au or call the Next Wave office on 03 9329 9422.
ABOUT NEXT WAVE
Next Wave is a biennial festival dedicated to developing and presenting innovative work by Australia's most interesting young artists. Next Wave supports the creation and presentation of new work across all artform areas including visual arts, performance, dance, new media, literature, hybrid projects and beyond, pushing the boundaries of traditional media and encouraging connections between diverse artforms and disciplines. Established in 1984, Next Wave encourages artists to undertake ambitious new projects, to experiment and engage with new ideas, and develop new skills and networks. Next Wave is also dedicated to exploring different contexts for contemporary arts practice, activating unconventional spaces for exchange between artists and audiences.
The 2008 Next Wave Festival will take place in May 2008, with exact dates to be confirmed in the coming months.
2008 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL THEME
CLOSER TOGETHER
The rhetoric of global culture tells us that we are being brought closer and closer together. By media, communication technologies, the free market and other snappy buzzwords which signify somewhat less transparent systems. But how close are we, and how much do we really know about each other?
The 2008 Next Wave Festival will explore new ideas of closeness and its conflicted nature: as a catalyst for connectedness, community and exchange, but also of claustrophobia, confrontation and invasion. The collapse of the private sphere into the public and the increasing tendency to live out our personal lives in very impersonal arenas. The demise of public space, as a concept and a reality...where is the space for vulnerability, intimacy, privacy and exchange in an increasingly globalised world? What is the potential for genuine, unexpected connections, and what might they look like?"
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it's true that we are not australian artists as this brief seems to be targeting, there is also a condition that the festival also favours artists 25 and under, or at least prefer a portion of artists to be 25 or under, I'll still be under 25 by then, and Tom too out of our lot which could pose a problem but maybe the content of our work might override this....
just thought I'd put this to you all as I thought our practice could work with this framework quite nicely in regards to blogging, the way our work demands interaction, participation and engagement and human connections/collaboration etc
let me know what you think, perhaps we could put together some kind of proposal if you're interested,
Andie
I just got an email about next wave 2008, which is well a whole year awaybut got me thinking about the possibility of our involvement given the theme which is CLOSER TOGETHER, here look i'll cut and paste the info for ya..
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"Applications are now open for the 2008 Next Wave Festival!
We are calling for proposals from projects across artforms, to be a part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival program, which respond to the festival theme, Closer Together.
Applications are due on FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2007 at 5pm.
Further information and application forms can be downloaded from Next Wave's website at www.nextwave.org.au . Alternatively, email nextwave @ nextwave.org.au or call the Next Wave office on 03 9329 9422.
ABOUT NEXT WAVE
Next Wave is a biennial festival dedicated to developing and presenting innovative work by Australia's most interesting young artists. Next Wave supports the creation and presentation of new work across all artform areas including visual arts, performance, dance, new media, literature, hybrid projects and beyond, pushing the boundaries of traditional media and encouraging connections between diverse artforms and disciplines. Established in 1984, Next Wave encourages artists to undertake ambitious new projects, to experiment and engage with new ideas, and develop new skills and networks. Next Wave is also dedicated to exploring different contexts for contemporary arts practice, activating unconventional spaces for exchange between artists and audiences.
The 2008 Next Wave Festival will take place in May 2008, with exact dates to be confirmed in the coming months.
2008 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL THEME
CLOSER TOGETHER
The rhetoric of global culture tells us that we are being brought closer and closer together. By media, communication technologies, the free market and other snappy buzzwords which signify somewhat less transparent systems. But how close are we, and how much do we really know about each other?
The 2008 Next Wave Festival will explore new ideas of closeness and its conflicted nature: as a catalyst for connectedness, community and exchange, but also of claustrophobia, confrontation and invasion. The collapse of the private sphere into the public and the increasing tendency to live out our personal lives in very impersonal arenas. The demise of public space, as a concept and a reality...where is the space for vulnerability, intimacy, privacy and exchange in an increasingly globalised world? What is the potential for genuine, unexpected connections, and what might they look like?"
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it's true that we are not australian artists as this brief seems to be targeting, there is also a condition that the festival also favours artists 25 and under, or at least prefer a portion of artists to be 25 or under, I'll still be under 25 by then, and Tom too out of our lot which could pose a problem but maybe the content of our work might override this....
just thought I'd put this to you all as I thought our practice could work with this framework quite nicely in regards to blogging, the way our work demands interaction, participation and engagement and human connections/collaboration etc
let me know what you think, perhaps we could put together some kind of proposal if you're interested,
Andie
Friday, February 23, 2007
Chartwell Website Homepage??
Hi All ... following up from our discussion last night, and FYI for Andie and Mel ...
We have been invited to post some of our CAMRU resources up on a page on the Chartwell Trusts Website called "Thinking about Contemporary Art". Copy this link to their site to check out the existing format;
http://www.chartwell.org.nz/startthinking/thconart.asp
The suggestion is that we could use the "Thinking about" page like an artists page, our resources would add to the existing ideas about appreciating contemporary art that the Trust is interested in fostering.
The Chartwell Trust are philanthropic proponents for the cause and reception of contemporary art, have been collecting (mostly) NZ and Aussie work for about 30 years and are also interested in the practices and process' of c.art.
Seems like a good context to me, have a look around the website for more info.
Any ideas as to how it would work best? Alot of their info is text base so it would be great to contribute something more visually stimulating, and perhaps even drawing on some choice comments from CAMRU collaborators . . .
Check out the tone of the writing too - we might be able to ah, orange it up a bit :-)
Have a great weekend everyone!
I really enjoyed the meeting last night, it totally cleared my stress about the project - yay T.A.C!!!!!
We have been invited to post some of our CAMRU resources up on a page on the Chartwell Trusts Website called "Thinking about Contemporary Art". Copy this link to their site to check out the existing format;
http://www.chartwell.org.nz/startthinking/thconart.asp
The suggestion is that we could use the "Thinking about" page like an artists page, our resources would add to the existing ideas about appreciating contemporary art that the Trust is interested in fostering.
The Chartwell Trust are philanthropic proponents for the cause and reception of contemporary art, have been collecting (mostly) NZ and Aussie work for about 30 years and are also interested in the practices and process' of c.art.
Seems like a good context to me, have a look around the website for more info.
Any ideas as to how it would work best? Alot of their info is text base so it would be great to contribute something more visually stimulating, and perhaps even drawing on some choice comments from CAMRU collaborators . . .
Check out the tone of the writing too - we might be able to ah, orange it up a bit :-)
Have a great weekend everyone!
I really enjoyed the meeting last night, it totally cleared my stress about the project - yay T.A.C!!!!!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Clubs Project
Hi there everyone,
I recently got in touch with Clubs to check out how we should proceed with our project with them and here's the update:
'Clubs are also pretty busy organising a forum on sustainable practice, for which we will be renting a space at the Meat Market, A large studio complex. Which will be free in june/july if this suits your project? We have found co-ordinating the many Artist run spaces of melbourne quite a task, and wouldn't be able to be verry much help on this. But are happy to host you spacially in june or july and do emails etc. Sorry, it is hard with out a fixed space, but if these dates don't suit we could also help with some where to lauch the publication, and try with the exhibition space?. I am happy to be the liason with you guys, but will be going overseas towards the end of July till sept, so if you guys can fit in to these tight limitations (sorry kind of a busy year for clubs, and clubs members) that would be great.'
... which is cool but I feel like June/July is a bit soon for us??? Good if you guys could have a bit of a chat at the meeting about this. Considering our ideas for Melbourne so far we don't really need a space as such anyhow - just an event venue, which could even be outside.
Happy meeting!!!
xx Mel
I recently got in touch with Clubs to check out how we should proceed with our project with them and here's the update:
'Clubs are also pretty busy organising a forum on sustainable practice, for which we will be renting a space at the Meat Market, A large studio complex. Which will be free in june/july if this suits your project? We have found co-ordinating the many Artist run spaces of melbourne quite a task, and wouldn't be able to be verry much help on this. But are happy to host you spacially in june or july and do emails etc. Sorry, it is hard with out a fixed space, but if these dates don't suit we could also help with some where to lauch the publication, and try with the exhibition space?. I am happy to be the liason with you guys, but will be going overseas towards the end of July till sept, so if you guys can fit in to these tight limitations (sorry kind of a busy year for clubs, and clubs members) that would be great.'
... which is cool but I feel like June/July is a bit soon for us??? Good if you guys could have a bit of a chat at the meeting about this. Considering our ideas for Melbourne so far we don't really need a space as such anyhow - just an event venue, which could even be outside.
Happy meeting!!!
xx Mel
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