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Degree show

5 weeks left of uni and its all starting to get exciting , thinking of presentation and how my work will be recieved is scary ! I have had a lot on this week so i'm waiting to get paid to send out the 120 postcards but I will do it!

CUC and Waterfront gallery exhibits still on which is exciting and I need to make a powerpoint presentation for my assessments so presure is on ...

Waiting

This week I am planning on sending around 200 postcards ! by Wed/Thurs as this is the best time to send as I send them 2nd class . The postcards then arrive for people to respond over the weekend :)

I hope that the people I have made contact with can enjoy this project and I will be putting more photographs on here soon .

I have got myself some work experience in a school in my area so I will sort that out this week :) one thing of the to do list !

Last week !!

Week starting 21st March is the last week of this plan I had to kick start this project and to hope for responses . Now all I have to do is figure out the best way to present these letters/emails and then go from there for the degree show!

PoSTCARDS

This week i'm hoping to buy 500 more postcards and that's going to be the final ones !

I have 20 more for this week costs so much in stamps ! I will  ring uni tomorrow and see if anyone has wrote to me :) 

I have wrote a letter to the local newspapers so I hope something will come of that and I have a exhibtion at the CUC Liverpool everyone is welcome ! I will be there Thursday night 17th March ! 

Weekend is here :)

Today I sent 30 postcards off and have 12 ready for tomorrow , 5 responses now which I am thrilled about.
I have also wrote a letter to the local newspapers help get my project known and hopefully get more responses :) .

I will start to take the photographs this weekend as I start work next week !!

Live performance piece

Amie Cooper

Artist: Gillian Wearing

Title: “Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say, `I like to be in the country'.

Year: 1992-1993

Brief discription: The artist says

 “To be asked only to wnte something, anything, presents a challenge and creates a totally different relationship to the person posing the question. The bizarre request to be 'captured' on film by a complete stranger is compounded by a non-specific space; the blank piece of paper, which almost replicates an unexposed film.”

“Perhaps the fascination in the relationship between the person and their slogan is in the confidence or diffidence of the people being 'imaged' in the first place.

This image interrupts the logic of photo-documentary and snapshot photography by the subjects clear collusion and engineering of their own representation.”

How I intend to create my own piece: With my current project I am the subject matter, I research, investigate and experience different outcomes each time. It’s all about communication and responses from members of the public/strangers.

I want to therefore produce photographs/stills from a video of holding up my postcards/collages with people walking past and then using any responses to further my work.

Where?

Around Liverpool

When?

19^th March

Risk Assessment: Making sure no one takes camera! Falls over tripod.

How I intend to present this piece?

I intend to present it in a book and as a triptych of photographs framed/mounted.

It's a big world out there!

Yesterday I put my work up in the CUC gallery in Liverpool. I have put up my collage postcards and a few original postcards that spoke out to me through the images on the front.

I hope I will get some feedback from this , I have learned to get my work out there and how to do so ! I hope more opportunities come from this exhibit .

My next step is to send more postcards out today and tomorrow and photograph the postcards then/now , and contact the local newspapers to see if they would be interested in photographing my work in the CUC and telling the public about posting the postcards , i'm hoping it will get more people to respond!

I have 2 weeks left of my plan so I can experiment with ideas and after that try to evaluate what is going to be best for my degree exhibit !!!

Exhibition is now open !

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150413568150293&set=t.528691155&theater

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150413562690293&set=t.528691155&theater

These are images of my work up in Waterfront Gallery Southport , open everyday 12-4 pm .

The theme is "Fantasy"

2 weeks to go !

Today is my last presentation for my uni work !! I have enough material now to start thinking about presentation for the degree show.

My aims left are ,

*Work experience
*Send 30 more postcards out
*Photograph the original images from the front of the postcards
*20 more collages


So still quite a lot to work on in 2 weeks but it's all worth it!

I have made a small book which will be arriving soon , it is just for me to experiment different formats and themes for the Degree show , I will also use it as extra documentation for this project .


Thank you to everyone who has commented! it has really helped me and I will still be collecting and sending  postcards out over the next couple of weeks :) !

Sent 2/03/10

Yesterday I sent more postcards out so now begins the waiting game again!

I will be Photographing Merseyside in the next couple of days and I have decided to get a mini book made of my own collage postcards I have been making , so I can show what I will be aiming for , for my degree show.

POSTCARDS

Today I received another response from last weeks postcards, I am really pleased how this project is going . I will send out a further 22 letters tomorrow this time I have included LJMU address for people with out access to the internet , which I have found in all 3 responses . Whilst waiting for some more emails/letters,  I will begin the next process of presenting the work after I have researched into archives and collections within art and photography. And start to take photographs of where the postcards are from . I will then evaluate this weeks events on Friday for my assessment on Monday 7th .

Making live art!

Thursday 3 March 10AM STUDO 20 LORENZO FUSI WILL GIVE A TALK/WORKSHOP ON CURATING YOUR DEGREE SHOW ATTENDACNE IS COMPULSORY Hi All, Lorenzo Fusi will be holding a talk/workshop for you all on the morning of Thursday 3 March. This will begin at 10am in Studio 20. In the afternoon Lorenzo will be in the Main Fine Art Studio to talk to you about your work. Please be there on Thursday at 10am. This is not optional and a register will be taken. After this, Lorenzo will be running his seminars with you towards the end of March. Patricia and I will inform you in good time of the exact times and dates  of these Seminars/Meetings etc. At your last meeting, Lorenzo suggested a task that he would like each of you to undertake in preparation for your Degree Show. Lorenzo will be happy to clarify any details in his meeting with you on Thursday Morning. Degree Show Task – Set by Lorenzo Fusi I would like each of you to re-do/re-enact/re-interpret one seminal (in your opinion) performance by an artist of your choice. The form and/or modality of the action naturally depends on the project you choose and I will expect to be notified which performance you would like to remake via email by March the 11th. You will need to send me the name of the artist, the title and the year and brief description of the performance of choice - a brief summary of how you intend to do it, where (and to fill out a risk assessment if necessary). You will each have 15/20 minutes to present your performance when we do the seminars together. This time will include discussion afterwards. Your performance can be live (but time is tight) or presented as a documentation of what you have already done (in which case I want you to think about how it is best to document a live action and transmit the feelings as well as the information. You can do it wherever you want (I tend to favour public spaces with occasional or invited audiences) and when you want but the experience has to be presented in class. If it is a durational piece that you want to stage at the faculty or elsewhere (say hours of work) we shall go and see it only for 15 minutes and speak about it when the action is finished. The important thing will be how to think about this task and to discuss how you think that you can take advantage of this challenge in your practice - and try to relate it to your existing body of work.