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Presenting Participation 3, another Open Research Meeting for those interested in discussing the subject of participation in the context of the works developed for exhibition Participation, took place two weeks ago on the 6 June at University College Falmouth.
Here is the link to the page about Open Research Meeting.
Works by Jane Bailey, Robin Hawes and Ana Carvalho will be presented during the second Open Research Meeting in the series presenting artworks which are to be shown during the exhibition in October 2007.
Jane Bailey will present her work Vanishing Points: Person, Place, Mediation, an iterative video-installation. Jane is interested in exploring the less visible forms of participation which may occur in what she characterises as the “gaps” and “spaces” produced by the work.
“Previously my practice has been concretely and visibly participative:usually making work collaboratively. Although this background informs Vanishing Points, in this particular work I aim to exploit less tangible forms of interaction and participation. Suspicious, or at least cautious, of some of the claims and expectations around participation – rather than seeing participation as inherently positive, I take a simultaneously engaged but wary approach to joining-in.”
Jane Bailey (excerpt from the proposal)
Jane is a practising artist who has collaborated on numerous projects. Recent work includes LAND, a video Commission by Croydon Clocktower, made in collaboration with Ze Tubia.
Robin Hawes in his work Private View: The Nature of Visual Process investigates the process of contemplation of a work of art by the viewer. With the use of the latest eye-tracking technology, the spectator’s gaze will be recorded. This sensory data will then be interpreted using information about the physiology of the human retina and then combined to create number of new artworks. This project is collaboration between the artist and Dr. Tim Hodgson, senior lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the School of Psychology, University of Exeter.
Robin Hawes’ creative practice is inspired by his fascination for psychology and, in particular, “the processes by which our experience of the external world both influence and inform the construction of our identities an inner ‘sense of self’ as we develop from childhood” (from artist’s bio).
Robin is a designer and practicing artist; graduate of MA in Contemporary Visual Practice at University College Falmouth and he also works as research assistant at RANE – Research in Art, Nature and Environment at UCF.
Ana Carvalho is developing a second part of her work Diaries Book for the exhibition. It is Internet based project which explores the processes and ways of knowing. In this mix of technology, Internet tools enhancing participation and collaboration with disciplines of knowledge such as numerology and self-hypnosis, the artist will engage in the process of knowing and understanding herself and others around her. The blog for Diaries Book Vol. 2 is available on http://diaries-book-vol2.blogspot.com/
Ana is a visual artist born in Porto, Portugal and living at the moment in Falmouth, UK. Major themes in the work of Ana are emotional celebrations in daily life, women’s achievements, fictional biography and ways of knowing. Ana is also a practicing VJ and co-editor of VJ Theory book and project (www.vjtheory.net).
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.
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