Untitled (Firewall) which was showing at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent came down last week, I was super pleased with it! I’ve never been more worried about a show in the weeks running up to it, I was concerned about making blinds, I was concerned about the polythene I had in place of back projection fabric and I was concerned that I was going to struggle to judge the work due to not having time to really view the work at night. Glen sent me some video of the work a few days after install and all that fear went away… it looked just as I had envissioned it. See the video below and the photo to the side! It was also an unusual show in that there was no way to get audience feedback due to it only being turned on where the gallery was closed and no one was there! So if anybody reading this saw it or has anything to say about the documentation please do!
I’ve started developing a more resolved piece than I showed during Exploring Local History through Digital Thinking for the end of my residency at Southam’s Cardall Collection; I’m begining to consider a display/information point around which discussion will take place about how religion and medicine have met, helped each other or opposed each other; again based around St. Wulfstan and Dr. Henry Lilley Smith on whom my research during the residency has focused. I have some ideas which I’m really excited about, I’m going to build a platform and table based on Southam’s Holy Well, a very old site in the town (http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18421) and have various ideas of what I’d like to happen in/on and around these! Theres also the possability of getting some old church pews for the audience to sit on!
I’ve also been considering the screen as camera, I have been composing/cropping and snapping (PrtSc + Ctrl V) truley DIGITAL photographs based on google image searches for ‘digital photograph’… Need to decide how these are to be shown and to start to look at the results really critically but I’m quite pleased with the results so far and intend to enter one for the John Turner Photography Competition.
Also been writing various proposals, working on a performance/lecture for MSFAC, working on a publication for Althorpe Studios and Gallery and have organised Ryan Hughes Presents… TNT (http://www.facebook.com/events/155068594632600/) again at Althorpe Studios and Gallery, hope to see you there Friday!
Untitled (Firewall) @ Airspace Gallery
