Monday, June 7, 2010

towards the exhibition

Concerning our approach towards the exhibition.
During our extra days in Reykjavik we, from Bergen, had a nice talk about this and made an attempt to put some things down.
In the discussion that is going on I feel that we are drifting away from the core, at least not towards it. It feels to me that we are talking about things before clarifying what we have so far.
How do we react on the subject of this program? From what or where do we work? What is the material for our work?

As we know the interests, works and approaches are very different in our group. But by answering these questions we came to one big division inside the whole group.
If we keep the intentional program of the Panoramic Interchange course as our subject we found two/three layers within our group in which we all manoeuvre.
We discussed the two ways to create a panoramic (of any kind) point of view:

Zooming in, - this could mean to grab a detailed subject in the course itself.
We thought of
Baldwin’s research on the KUNO institute
Dillans focus on view furniture
Sindri’s interest in the people participating in the course
some of us focus very much on what they seen/experienced in the course

Zooming out, - here we thought how some of us use material from outside of the course
Café Paris
Lina’s installation
Gabi’s George Bush metaphore

Off course not for everyone it is so clear in what category they fit. Or maybe I don’t even want to call it categories. We just figured that this, especially in relation to creating a panorama, was a clear division to position us in.
What could we do with this?
This could be a way to divide the space, locate the works and create a theme around it. We could also see it as a general thing and work from here.
In the symposium there as well is zooming in/out a present subject (?)
I wonder what your response to this is?
We from Bergen hope to find a solution that does not need such a grand construction around one of the participants’ works (Bryndis, Dillan) and hope to let these works develop by the person itself instead of becoming the visual for the entire show.

1 comment:

  1. i thought off a possible title (not only for this concept):


    Moving back and forth to create space.


    It suggest movement in both time and space..
    creating space, space for making, space for discussion..
    dynamics
    and more..... i guess

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