Within a lot of our work, the end product or result sometimes doesn't reflect what we believe it to be. For example, our Just the Two of Us (couples photographs) became more about the performative aspect of dressing up and embodying the artists/iconic photographs whereas I'm not sure the completed work reflected that.
Artist Heather Phillipson gave an artists talk on Wednesday and as some of her has a duality to it (her work Taps, for example – is the work the sound made by the taps, could it become a piece of music in it's own right, or is the work the performance of her doing it, in the British Library Toilets)
One of our new video works has brought about this problem for us. In the video we both attempt to make an Origami Crane to fast, youtubed instructions. The video is a piece but so are the end results-as sculptural forms. Are they both integral to the work or must we decide what reveals what we were doing most successfully.
Documentation of an work and of events/happenings has traditonally been an issue for performative artists and is continuing to be so. In a recent inteview with Francis Alys in Art Revie, this was the only issue cited in a very complimentary review.
