A blog on how we live and then where we take ourselves / or a delivery of online diary covering collaborative ideas / tweaking of texts / duplication of words (the process of making an exhibition that is proposed for a given area). “How We Live” began as a three part exhibition in one place, bringing three disparate art practices together through channels of partnership and reciprocal working patterns. This culminated in grabbing a fourth artist to be involved and to extend the longevity of the exhibition as a concept, with which to work around / up to / within / past.
HOW WE LIVE also induces WHERE WE TAKE OURSELVES: offering the notion of self-made residencies where the notion of collaboration is re-negotiated through externalising where ‘art’ is made and where ‘practice’ is… well, practiced.
The initial exhibition (HOW WE LIVE) was a collection of works that corresponded the artists involved and how they went about / go about making visual dialogues and constructions: making a collective discourse by using separate practice and habitat as a resource, from which to produce a show. WHERE WE TAKE OURSELVES reverses this, it pulls the artists out of their comfort zones, puts them in the middle of nowhere, but also places them together, to work in a foursome for concentrated periods of time within extremity.
