TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes they can be helpful :D

I had a tutorial with Mr Kit Craig, we spoke about my experiments talked about Gillian Wearing, and also spoke about the other ideas I had. One of them being If I were to, like Gonzalez-Torres, have maybe a bowl/ container of individual sweets I would set them up so people would just take them slowly disintegrating the piece....but then what ? Is what he asked me.








I don't know.....




After that we chatted about how I could take that idea further and together we discussed the idea of a POP-UP shop, where instead of me just straight up giving things away I would trade or swap for items from the public. Originally the idea was that I would set up a sweet shop in my studio space, but in my opinion no one is ever in the studio so I took it upstairs into the Holden Café. 

I set up my shop from 11am till 1pm bought several big bags of sweets and played shop :). 



The response was slow, it felt as if I was intimidating people to much so they wouldn't come close enough to know what was going on. Eventually people started to play along, instead of sitting and waiting I began taking my goods to other people and explain my situation as often as possible. Once people realised I wasn't there to poison them or anything they were much happier to participate. I had an amazing response and managed to trade around 50 items :)
 There are photographs of each and every item and a logbook of the trades but for some reason I cannot upload images from my computer :(.


These items are very very very important, they are the backbone of my work at this moment in time. For every item recieve I will create a piece of work around it. 


My idea is that I will take these items and trade them around the city of Manchester as much as I can, some items will be untradeable for example the reciepts and train tickets I don't believe I will get anywhere with them so I will create something out of them :).