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In this project I am learning that the document is vital in order to transmit the idea/event/object to an audience especially here in Poole where there is a lack of audience for contemporary art. Making the best document of the work can take much longer than the work itself. Yesterday we spend two hours working on getting the right shot for a re-enactment of Bruce Nauman’s walking in a square. Today I have spent more time uploading than making. It’s really about the tree in the forest, if nobody hears it doesn’t make a sound. Whatever I make or do in the name of art does not exist if it is not transmitted and it cannot be transmitted if it does not exist in a transmittable form. I’m an emerging artist and an art dealer/commissioner is not going to walk into my studio and discover me, at least not in Poole.
It’s not just about the location it’s also the legacy. Creating transient works and work that evolves and transforms through the process requires recording in order to exist beyond where it is now. There is a liberty in making these images. Once the image is made the art can disappear and becomes something else or be returned to its former function as a ladder or a bucket. The created image is alive and transmitting on request for whatever purpose it is required. It can be condensed down, altered, uploaded, posted, reused, re-presented in another context.
