Untitled, 2011
Cotton, wax and brass fittings
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Friday, 3 October 2008
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Meeting Tues 10am, B27 Copied over from Facebook
Bit confused which forum to use but anyway thought Lorraine's info should go up here too! See below:
Hello,
Just to let you know, there has been a meeting called this tuesday at 10am in chemistry B27 - the new "site office".
Here we will start to putting things in to action.
There are four main departments (for now - which may branch out more later)
*Finance and Fundraising
*Curatorial, Logistics, Technical,
*Publicity, Press and Marketing
*Catalogue and Website
If you want - please do start considering which department you would like to be a part of, or other ways in which you would be interested in contributing.
If you don't - please do come along anyway - there will be some important decisions that will be made.
There will be a discussion and resolution on the organisational structure of the different departments.
A DRAFT agenda/plan of actions will be forwarded to you later this week. Please print it out and bring it with you to tuesday meeting.
Not every Final Year Fine Artist is on this facebook group - please invite them in if you're friends with them. This will serve (for now) one of the main ways to communicate major updates to the year.
SIMON WILL CHAIR THE MEETING (granting his travel plans)
The Agenda for Tuesday's meeting (in no particular order)
1) A brief pitch on the organisational structure of the degree show followed by a short question time
2) pitch will be backed by the DRAFT agenda followed by a short question time
3) Self election of various departments
4) Voting for first milestone
NOTHING IS CONCRETE - THERE ARE NO DICTATORS (YET) - THIS IS JUST TO GET THE BALL ROLLING.
Okay - so have a good week
Hello,
Just to let you know, there has been a meeting called this tuesday at 10am in chemistry B27 - the new "site office".
Here we will start to putting things in to action.
There are four main departments (for now - which may branch out more later)
*Finance and Fundraising
*Curatorial, Logistics, Technical,
*Publicity, Press and Marketing
*Catalogue and Website
If you want - please do start considering which department you would like to be a part of, or other ways in which you would be interested in contributing.
If you don't - please do come along anyway - there will be some important decisions that will be made.
There will be a discussion and resolution on the organisational structure of the different departments.
A DRAFT agenda/plan of actions will be forwarded to you later this week. Please print it out and bring it with you to tuesday meeting.
Not every Final Year Fine Artist is on this facebook group - please invite them in if you're friends with them. This will serve (for now) one of the main ways to communicate major updates to the year.
SIMON WILL CHAIR THE MEETING (granting his travel plans)
The Agenda for Tuesday's meeting (in no particular order)
1) A brief pitch on the organisational structure of the degree show followed by a short question time
2) pitch will be backed by the DRAFT agenda followed by a short question time
3) Self election of various departments
4) Voting for first milestone
NOTHING IS CONCRETE - THERE ARE NO DICTATORS (YET) - THIS IS JUST TO GET THE BALL ROLLING.
Okay - so have a good week
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Can see how other people are getting on
Random searching for someone I know led me here
http://www.a-nunedited.co.uk/dsu/index.php?page=showlist#73
where degree shows all over uk are listed and includes blogs from other 'victims'. Haven't had time to look but may help us later.
http://www.a-nunedited.co.uk/dsu/index.php?page=showlist#73
where degree shows all over uk are listed and includes blogs from other 'victims'. Haven't had time to look but may help us later.
Monday, 21 January 2008
Bring and Buy
What do you think about a possible Ebay bring and buy. We must all have some Cds and books etc lying around that could be put up there - or is a table in the uni better? I could do with shifting some stuff... for a good cause. Is anyone else keen to put things up on ebay?
OR we could do our own version of Artgos, but I'm not too up on the website stuff....
OR we could do our own version of Artgos, but I'm not too up on the website stuff....
Saturday, 8 December 2007
LEEDS INTERNATIONAL POOL
Rejected Proposals
In June 2007, Black Dogs were invited to make a proposal for an intervention at Leeds International Pool. We put forward plans for several distinct artworks, ranging from a series of ghostly videos to hardcore audience liver abuse. The proposal read:
Our intention with the proposed intervention in Leeds International Pool is to facilitate the audience to reflect on the history of the building and its wider context (the city) in a critical yet celebratory fashion - a good-natured ribbing with games and activities to prompt conversation.
The point of departure for our intervention is the widespread urban legend of the pool’s design omitting the thickness of its tiles and in turn not being able to qualify as an official Olympic-sized pool. This insignificant but tragic unit of measurement will feature subtly in many of the works included in the intervention.
The atmosphere we intend to create is a discreet unsettling of the audience through the layering of past activity and present celebration. This will be achieved through the audience’s simultaneous experience of participative and interactive artworks and games etc that form a ‘real-time party’, and the inclusion of works that playback past events or ghostly traces of past activity in the pool.
An illustrative reference point might be the scene in Kubrik’s ‘The Shining’ where Jack hallucinates a bar and partygoers that existed decades previous whilst enjoying a drink and chat with the (similarly imagined) bar tender.
Initial works that we have discussed to achieve this atmosphere will include:
An invitation to ‘Drink the Pool Dry’. Audience members are served from a bar stocked with drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic if allowed) the initial total of which equates to the volume of the pool. The drinks are served in units equal to the volume of a tile. Drinks will comply with H+S.
Leeds International Pool souvenir distance badges. Sew on patches are given away as prizes from games and/or distributed through vending machines. The distances are slightly less than normal (ie 499.78m badge).
Participative (Pool) Lounge Music. The empty pool is filled with old pianos that a performer/the audience are invited to walk across. The resulting music would highlight the unique acoustics of the space and can be recorded or transcribed to form a document of the intervention. Close work with H and S will be required to adapt the idea.
Water-sensitive ‘ice’ sculptures. The space is decorated with replicas of objects that used to inhabit the building. The replicas are constructed from tile-units made from compressed soap powder. At the end of the event they are melted with water as a performance (party) piece.
Pool music. Using underwater recording equipment the music that is played at the party will create the illusion that the audience is alternating between hearing it underwater and normally (as when the radio is played through the speakers whilst swimming). All songs are cut short by small but noticeable amounts. This sound piece may also include field recordings taken from when the pool was active.
Projected Pool Audience/Party-goers. Life size projections of films made of loops of people performing various actions and everyday things in the pool (diving, walking, talking, watching) punctuate the space. This would have a similar effect as the sound piece - a playback of past events into the space, ghosts in the pool.
These are initial ideas that we would hope to refine and develop to create a cohesive and accessible (yet surreal) environment for the audience to enter into and engage with. There is flexibility within the work to adapt to budget or health and safety practicalities and still achieve the same goals. Similarly the duration of the piece is flexible. It could last for four weeks as a conventional exhibition or be split into a number of events (this would be negotiated by developing the work more closely with the commissioner).
Black Dogs has strong links with a number of other Leeds-based artists and collectives who we are keen to work with where possible (see CV). Similarly our relationship with organisations such as Lumen and Leeds College of Art and Design have helped us access technical support and resources to deliver projects successfully in the past.
The opportunity presented by this commission is valuable for Black Dogs and would allow us to develop our practice and broaden partnerships in Leeds. As such we would be keen to make every effort to realise the intervention to as high a standard as possible and are willing to adapt to any changes that may occur.
Rejected Proposals
In June 2007, Black Dogs were invited to make a proposal for an intervention at Leeds International Pool. We put forward plans for several distinct artworks, ranging from a series of ghostly videos to hardcore audience liver abuse. The proposal read:
Our intention with the proposed intervention in Leeds International Pool is to facilitate the audience to reflect on the history of the building and its wider context (the city) in a critical yet celebratory fashion - a good-natured ribbing with games and activities to prompt conversation.
The point of departure for our intervention is the widespread urban legend of the pool’s design omitting the thickness of its tiles and in turn not being able to qualify as an official Olympic-sized pool. This insignificant but tragic unit of measurement will feature subtly in many of the works included in the intervention.
The atmosphere we intend to create is a discreet unsettling of the audience through the layering of past activity and present celebration. This will be achieved through the audience’s simultaneous experience of participative and interactive artworks and games etc that form a ‘real-time party’, and the inclusion of works that playback past events or ghostly traces of past activity in the pool.
An illustrative reference point might be the scene in Kubrik’s ‘The Shining’ where Jack hallucinates a bar and partygoers that existed decades previous whilst enjoying a drink and chat with the (similarly imagined) bar tender.
Initial works that we have discussed to achieve this atmosphere will include:
An invitation to ‘Drink the Pool Dry’. Audience members are served from a bar stocked with drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic if allowed) the initial total of which equates to the volume of the pool. The drinks are served in units equal to the volume of a tile. Drinks will comply with H+S.
Leeds International Pool souvenir distance badges. Sew on patches are given away as prizes from games and/or distributed through vending machines. The distances are slightly less than normal (ie 499.78m badge).
Participative (Pool) Lounge Music. The empty pool is filled with old pianos that a performer/the audience are invited to walk across. The resulting music would highlight the unique acoustics of the space and can be recorded or transcribed to form a document of the intervention. Close work with H and S will be required to adapt the idea.
Water-sensitive ‘ice’ sculptures. The space is decorated with replicas of objects that used to inhabit the building. The replicas are constructed from tile-units made from compressed soap powder. At the end of the event they are melted with water as a performance (party) piece.
Pool music. Using underwater recording equipment the music that is played at the party will create the illusion that the audience is alternating between hearing it underwater and normally (as when the radio is played through the speakers whilst swimming). All songs are cut short by small but noticeable amounts. This sound piece may also include field recordings taken from when the pool was active.
Projected Pool Audience/Party-goers. Life size projections of films made of loops of people performing various actions and everyday things in the pool (diving, walking, talking, watching) punctuate the space. This would have a similar effect as the sound piece - a playback of past events into the space, ghosts in the pool.
These are initial ideas that we would hope to refine and develop to create a cohesive and accessible (yet surreal) environment for the audience to enter into and engage with. There is flexibility within the work to adapt to budget or health and safety practicalities and still achieve the same goals. Similarly the duration of the piece is flexible. It could last for four weeks as a conventional exhibition or be split into a number of events (this would be negotiated by developing the work more closely with the commissioner).
Black Dogs has strong links with a number of other Leeds-based artists and collectives who we are keen to work with where possible (see CV). Similarly our relationship with organisations such as Lumen and Leeds College of Art and Design have helped us access technical support and resources to deliver projects successfully in the past.
The opportunity presented by this commission is valuable for Black Dogs and would allow us to develop our practice and broaden partnerships in Leeds. As such we would be keen to make every effort to realise the intervention to as high a standard as possible and are willing to adapt to any changes that may occur.
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Thank you again to everyone that helped out by making/bringing cakes and cards for the stall today and to everyone that helped running the stall.
We still have quite a few cards left but a few of us were thinking of selling them on ebay, maybe as collections or as single cards and setting up a paypal account to the funds account laura and I are making. We should get on this asap though obviously.
Anyway, the news you wanted to hear, today we made a total of : £100. 23
Meaning that from the two sales so far we have a total of about £170.
Oh and one more thing, while speaking about ebay - Tanni and I were thinking maybe we should have a meeting and all start contributing things to sell on the site even if something like (I can't remember her name) but the artist that came in for a visiting lecture a while back who sold the photographs before they were taken., a small sketch or anything we could just make some more funds from.. I imagine we will need to speak about this on here over Christmas or otherwise meet in the New Year now.
Anyway thats all from me for now, I think I had too many mince pies. x
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