This project has snowballed… in a good way.
I received all but one of the diaries back in the post, ready to make work from them…
I discovered so much about the volunteers via their dreams, yet the cheeses didn’t necessarily produce similar dreams. I made some graphs and documentation based on the dream diaries BUT the diaries themselves seem to be the most interesting artefact.
In May I received a double whammy of good news which have effected my project:
1. I submitted my project to HOARD which is a year long project based in Leeds, which houses the work of artists who use hoarding to create their work. My project is essentially ‘dream hoarding’ so Cheese Dreams HQ is based here…what is so lovely about HOARD is the idea that the public are welcome to look around and see our work in progress every month or so.
2. I got a year long residency (September start) at Bootham School in York, which enables me to develop my project with a small team of students in Year 8 (which is pretty much the funnest thing EVER)
Paralel to this news Cheese Dreams made its debut at Melanie Alexandrou’s Pop Up in Macclesfield (part of their annual Barnaby Arts Festival) which was fantastic.
I displayed the diaries as part of the exhibition, and they proved to be the most interesting to viewers. The tangibility of the diaries is really inviting, and being able to compare the dreams as a viewer is really involving and creates a lovely social ‘hub’ of people discussing and comparing the dreams.
The evidence and documentation is being developed at Bootham School… which is super fantastic…
