Group Meeting

...with tutor Ian.
We gained a new member of our group - Charly Gibbs. We have always liked the idea of our show being very diverse, very different themes being brought together on the theme of transience. Charly has taken a very different angle on the theme - the idea of people being transient - so se fits with our proposal perfectly and will make it more interesting.

We also discussed our location, and the possibility of showing outdoors on an advertising hoarding or wall in a busy area.

I don't know if I want to have a launch night/party, too much of a big event. I think this cancels out the transience..

Showing outdoors raises issues of durability, for example Vic's work is very delicate and would have to be photographed and replicated in order to be shown on a poster hoarding or billboard. However we could use this idea for a teaser. We could have a proper show but still paste versions of our work guerrilla style in random locations. Photocopy and replicate our work into flyers and posters on cheap material and paste up like regular posters.

After Joe's talk I've started thinking about Piccadilly Place (which was free for him, besides having to supply a doorman) alongside basically a poster and flyer campaign throughout the city.

We want to spend as little money as possible, ideally nothing on our location. I think if we continue with the empty shop idea we will have to rent somewhere from a landlord. Our initial idea relating to the empty shop was that we wanted it to be derelict and empty, and to take it over, for the building to be in dis-use and for the landlord to let us do what we want in there (or to not know at all). This raises issues of insurance, legality and safety if we bring an audience in there. Therefore we are limited to existing gallery spaces that just happen to be in a retail space (Nexus etc). This location does not correlate to our original ideas and why we wanted to use a shop in the first place. So I think we need to target the theme thoroughly he location in a different ways so I think a laid-back artist-run space (like Piccadilly Place or Triangle) would be ideal, somewhere with a window space, that we can have open to the public for one day, be viewable from the street and be advertised by mysterious flyers and posters with minimal information.