Bind and Apparatus

The first Open Research Meeting presenting artworks which will be displayed in the gallery, took place yesterday – 25/04/2007. There is an information about it on the iRes website together with few photos.

Chantal Brooks presented her work Bind and Brendan Byrne talked about his Apparatus. Two very different works in different media, however, concerned with similar issues and perhaps “problems” of participation. In both of the works the process is of particular interest. In the Bind it is the process of making, stacking together a number of elements, bits, pieces, things given away and collected by the artits. The final piece, 3D installation which will be exhibited in the Poly in October is the “proof” of that process of binding things together. Quilt making method and traditions around that are an inspiration for this work to come together.

In Apparatus the process of making things together is immaterial. The artist is building a tool, an interface which on the surface will allow for moving blocks of colour projected on the screen with the body of a “user”, a member of an audience, a collaborator, a participator… And as there is a plan to have 3 apparatuses next to each other there is a possibility of some sort of relation between them. And that relation can be only built through corporeal communication in the space and negotiating that space.

Join in and participate!

In January 2007 iRes released call for artworks to take part in the exhibition Participation. The call is closed and the artworks are chosen. This blog is a place for those involved in the exhibition (artists and a curator) and those interested in the subject of participation to talk about ideas, explore the subject and solve problems. Please join in and participate.