Friday 5th December was the opening night of residual projects at South Square Gallery where I was invited to create a piece of work live. The work doesn’t have a title yet, but it involved audience members wielding 32 tape measures in the space in a spate of organised chaos based on the amount of floor area that residents of the former cottage had to live in at points in history since 1841.
It was exciting to have so many people helping in the creation of the work, and the participation certainly seemed to generate conversation about the ideas behind the work – something that sometimes doesn’t happen at the opening event. The temporary burst of activity left behind outlines arranged across the space that will turn into a more considered/finished/neater piece of work during the following two days in residence.
