N.B. Tom Cookson is showing in the Interim exhibition down the road in the old Vernon Street college building. Opening tomorrow (Wed) at 6.00pm. A good networking opportunity as students from other colleges will be showing too. PS no one has mentioned any of the shows around college, what do you think of the college as a site for exhibitions?
Some stuff for Thursday
Louisa will be taking a walking tour of possible sites for your artwork. Meet at 1pm in the studio. In order to find out places people are looking at I will put up a map of the centre of Leeds so that people can indicate on it where they are thinking of possibilities for either publicly sited or gallery based interventions. There are still blogs I cant find, so I'm also posting up a list of those I have found with gaps. Can you fill in the gaps for me please?
i was talking to Terry Jones about the spaces around college for exhibitions.i like the idea that if students are perhaps feeling a bit too lazy to go to a gallery that they can just walk down the corridor and view some work.As the exhibitions are being brung to us rather than us going to them.
ReplyDeleteThe exhibitions themselves due to lack of space become quite awkward in some places for instance everyone cramming down a corridor or trying to look over somebodies shoulder as they are sat in the cafe.This has led to the spaces as more of a thing to brighten up the place like a pretty painting would be hung up in a cafe.However it still is good to have work around so we can see whats going on
I COULD tell you what l think of the Hirsts, but it wouldnt be pretty
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jenny about the work sometimes feeling like it's just there to 'brighten up the place' I think Bleheim Walk feels quite clinical compared to Vernon St. and this might be why the work that's up can look like it's in a dentists waiting room or something. I think there should be a lot more work displayed around college, it would help to get rid of the white, clinical corridor effect and give students and visitors more opportunity to see what's going on, what's being created.
ReplyDeleteThinking about art walks in relation to our walking tour this Thursday. Both the Pavillion and PSL organise regular art walks around events and exhibitions that are happening in Leeds. Perhaps you could look them up and think about the possibility of organising your own art walk?
ReplyDeleteA combination of a social outing and a guided encounter with art, an art walk is a way to both engage audiences and encourage new ones. Many people visit art galleries and are bewildered by what they see, so an unofficial tour is one way to address the possibly daunting prospect of encountering the art world alone and uninformed.
However, all the art walks I have been on have been attended mostly by other arists or aficionados.
Also, what is the role of the guide? Is the walk itself a performative art form? What happens to the work when it is linked together in this way?
See you later today
Louisa
Sorry, I meant to type artists, not arists, I wonder what an arist might be? I quite like the word, maybe its a very humble aristocrat, or someone who says Ah! a lot.
ReplyDeleteIn relation to the artwork around college I like being able to wander around at lunch and see pieces on my doorstep, and although it is quite awkward it's rare that you suddenly get hords of students cramming around the pictures on display.
ReplyDeleteI think Sophie Calle's film (unfinished..?) worked really effectively, as not only is the TV a focal point in the cafe but in general it's what everyone is drawn to watching and so even if people were not sure what was going on it still got a wider audience and more notice then some of the wall artwork which can get overlooked.