www.rich-taylor.co.uk/archive/museumproject
I propose to install MUSEUM::project as a ‘instance’ of clarity to punctuate an ongoing project researching elements of circulatory flow and cyclicality in the making/documenting of an artwork.
The piece has been developed throughout 2009 and in to 2010 by way of re-visiting the museum (Leeds’ Civic Theatre) as a research-site and traversable studio where documentation is cohesive with temporary experience. The notion of a ‘site’ is an architectural reference point cited visually, textually and sculpturally.
The next step is to house the material as a collective piece in a space alternative to the original context. The concept of ‘exhibition as documentation’ extends the work, attempting to re-define recorded visitation and the sculptural quality of public institution.
The workload currently exists in archival storage and awaits the next step. It already has plenty written about it; this textual content seems exhaustive, it now needs space to breath and other works with which to communicate.
So far the idea exists in digital form as well as through notes and collected materials. The proposed arrangement will take on the form of installation in response to re-located architectures. This will necessitate the ‘artist as documenter’ to visit the new exhibition-site via the work’s research-site, cross-referencing more material.
MATERIAL
Documents compiled:
Documented photography – series of 11
Source material for drawings and sculptural arrangement –
Materials/documents to be compiled:
Representational drawing paths – series of 11
Found materials in sculptural/sight specific arrangement – 19
Text element [between description and fictional wanderings]
The collection of documents will include a series of drawings that absorb the process of envisaging a sculptural form. This sculptural form will exist through engaging with the wall and/or floor space: making use of the found materials and their affected state, the formation will then elude direct-documentation; instead defining itself in reference to the photo-documentation produced during visitation.
