Exhibition

The exhibition took a large amount of planning on my part Though I don't think you can actually tell :( 


The plans did change quite a bit from the earlier post I made about my initial thoughts, My piece now named "Bank Statement" consists of:




-A map, which documents where my "deposit boxes" are.
-Hand outs containing an essay on currency and a number which refers to the map.
- Several "deposit boxes" containing swapped items which were placed throughout Manchester.
_ Several "deposit boxes" containing personal letters and documents which were also placed around the city center. 
- Logbooks which were at the exhibition and documented all the swaps taken place during the project.  
- An artist book made up of train tickets and receipts, which is aptly called train tickets and receipts :) 




I would have inserted photographs here but you can see everything in the exhibtion and you will have to take my word for the "deposit boxes" unless your willing to seek them out yourselves :) 


The boxes will be re-collected next week if any of them are still there, I placed one on Oxford Road near the BBC building on my way into the center, walking back down again about a half hour later and it had already gone  :(. If I every decided to make a piece of work based on a social experiment which relies on the goodwill of the general public then I will have to think of a way to secure my items to the floor -_-






My installation invited the audience to participate, though now that I look back at it there isn't any way for the audience to really know what to do, not any formal instructions, but then again I didn't feel the need to wright out instructions, If a person reads the artist statement then they should know pretty much instantly what the work is about, although I like the idea of being subtle I don't believe anyone would participate unless I actually commanded them to.


I do think that as a whole the exhibition went well we did have a few upsets and arguements about the painting situation which was eventually solved with some rebeling...
One of the third years told me that the first year exhibition tells a person who they can work with, weather it's literally just getting along, or artwork wise, Your pieces work well alongside X's pieces, he said it helps for your second year when you have to hold an external exhibition, I think I managed to take that advice well I've finally forged a relationshi[ with some of the painting students and realised my work is better with other people. So yea, all in all it was an educational experience.