At the end of stage one of my process (relocating home) we decided as a cohort to meet and share how our research is getting on at this point in time and receive feedback, ideas and comments from not only our peers but their supervisors as well. getting a different view on our work, how other people who have different interests and views see the works.
Instead of just sticking up the work that I had created to date I thought I better test out the space and react to the space where I would be conducting the presentation. Before going in with my work to stick up I instead went in and just experienced the space. Where the light was coming from, what kind of light it was, natural or artificial. What materials made up the room, what were the properties of the surfaces I am going to pin my work up on, how could I look at these materials differently to work to my advantage.
using a series of different fixings ranging from, double sided tape, photo squares, foam squares, blu-tack, and even push pins. I soon came to discover that the pushpins and blu-tack gave the work a very low quality presentation and detracted from the hero that is the work itself. I was far more interested in the way that the foam squares and the double sided tape held the work to the wall in a clean and sleek manner.
It was through the process of looking at the work I have made and collected to date and deciding what to collect and highlight in an exhibition point of view, and seeing what little things I had made along the way that don’t need to be shown but rather their ideas are communicated through the bigger works that are easier to present in a physical interaction and portrayal of the idea.
through my presentation installation i begin to add and add and add work to the walls and space around the wall and before i knew it i had covered every inch of wall from ceiling to floor. With images, sketches, maps, site maps, colour co-ordination, string, models and whatever I had made to date I had found a space to put it in my designated presentation space.
This was a disaster.
Even though i had created a wide variety of series’ of ideas that each tie into each other, the more i put them altogether on the wall the harder it got for their ideas and the collection of work to be read. the layers and layers of ideas and work that i presented drew away from the main ideas of my project/research which for stage one was to relocate home. relocate and establish the ideas and things that make home, make my home, home to me. whereas, in the work that i presented, the main ideas did not stg out as much as they should have and instead the sub ideas and themes carried about the same amount of weight which in turn led to people misinterpreting my ideas and research. (something to be improved on for next presentation).
Georgia Christina Grace 