EVALUATION : ARTIST CALL 3 - Sited/Off sited

Figure 1 : Nature Co-Creating Triumviri

(Dowley, 2012)

Submitted document for Artist Call 3

EVALUATION :

‘Art work that takes from the everyday...is it an act of salvation to save the mundane from the negligence that surrounds it.’ (Highmore, 2002 p24)

Fitting my work into Call 3 followed the ideas set forth in my proposal but what is more important is that the real challenge came after the planned event. It was represented in the form of how the documentation could be conceptualized rather than the artwork created. It is here where the research came into play and the real work started and with more time, I feel is yet to be completed in the form a publication that includes lists, drawings, poetry and photographs.

My research into Jeremy Dellor’s, Memory Bucket and his comment on the films conclusion, “It’s a romantic thought that nature goes on no matter what man’s sins” is captured within my documented tryptic and was a conclusion I came to myself during this expedition into the wild. (Dellor,2010)  The documentation represents a female triumvirate that highlights our frailty when confronted with the omnipotence of Nature.

How the methodology changed externally was that with my collaborators, the natural environment became a fundamental co creator in that its power and existence affected contributed and altered the work that was created, individually within it. From a curatorial standpoint the need for documentation was in fact paramount to the success of this project as a record for future audiences beginning with The Lobby Exhibition which was curated on Friday. 

This was a particularly difficult show to curate because of the sheer quantity of unframed multiple sized documentation that was presented including  Ai to A4 foam board, frames and large monitors. All of which had to be housed and secured in a relatively small space. The team made a point of creating a list with any special artist requests and worked hard to respect them. 

Reference list / bibliography

Dowley, D., 2012. Nature Co-Creating Triumviri. The Gower Peninsular, Wales. Artist Call 3 Group Exhibition, The Lobby. PCA

Dellor, J,. (2010) Memory Bucket- Manchester, Crawford and Jeremy Dellor [online]. Robert Leeming Word Press.com. Available from http://robertleeming.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/memory-bucket-manchester-crawford-and-jeremy-deller/

Highmore, B., (ed). (2002) The Everyday Life Reader. USA & Canada : Routledge