Just under a couple of weeks to go and email invitations have gone out so I’m feeling kind of excitedly anxiously strange! I have spent the week working on the crane print negatives, which I’m replicating. I’m not copying them fastidiously because I’m not that kind of artist and also I think when I was trying to contextualise the show, I’d been writing about how museums shape our how the past is presented. Museums do their best to be as true as possible but can’t really show an absolute replication, this threads into my replication and personal response to the crane drawings.
This also got me thinking about how much information to give the audience when in the gallery. As I’m making a statement about how museums construct ideologies, should I do this in the gallery? Should each piece of work have an explanation like they do have in a museum or should the work be able to hold it’s own? It’s also in interesting to think about how you would present this information. Should it be on little signs next to the work? Or as a printed handout with a map? There are a lot of subtle interactions going on and I don’t want the work to be seen as difficult but I’m still thinking about this one. This actually could be a separate piece of work but not sure if I’ve got the time to do it, and there will be deadlines to getting things printed so I probably haven’t got long to decide.
I’ve also been spending the week editing the videos I’ve been filming and like most things in my practice, the initial idea doesn’t end up working and something better comes along. At the moment the initial ideas isn’t working but I’m still kind of processing what the better thing is! I had spent at least a day editing an experimental video, which was to be played in the cinema. This was of shots that I’d taken around outside the mill and I had been intersecting the images with still frames of distorted images which was meant to be about perception and memory. But I’m not that happy with them, maybe I’ll leave them and work on them at a later date. The thing which has interested me was revisiting the animations I had started on in about week 2, I’ve got shots of wheels moving and things and I just like the simpleness of it, but I’m not sure if they should be in the gallery or in the cinema so that’s another thing to sort out. I’ve got a few days planned for editing this week so fingers crossed I can get a move on with that.
