Our meeting!

We have made some decisions about what we are going to do.

We will start making on Monday afternoon and continue on Thursday and the following Monday
It will be one rather large piece either on card or found wood(if it's still there!)
We will do it on the floor


It will be 2 layers.
The first will consist of layered photographs,A3 and A4 size and black painted text. We will bulk it up with newspaper in places before we start layering photos and the photos will be of the protests including the police and the public. This will represent the underbelly and unrest within the political system and the current climate.
The second layer will be a large campaign image of clegg and cemeron as they would like to be seen by the public eg campaign images which we have drawn from projection. (this may take a while!!). We will staple it ontop of the first layer and into the texture of the underneath. Then rip into it and have it asif the underneath is trying to break put onto the surface. L

Should be good! Fingers crossed
To discuss with David- how to display- Bow suggested in a shopping trolly?? I just thought also that we could have some photos coming out from the first layer through the cracks :)
Jo

Billboard Art project

I might have spelt that wrong, but check them out on facebook.

Nie

Placards

I had this idea to rather than display our work just on the wall (stuck and taped on) we could maybe make a few they can be smaller and be displayed like placards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12921158

I read this and got the idea from this

Alice

Exhibition we should visit!

Possible Damage!
Liga suggested it after our presentation.
Its at INIVA which is the gallery my group visited last semester with intro study and its in shoreditch so not far away!
I think its displaying items which have been thrown during riots!
Its on until 3rd May i think....
but basically i think we should go, I think I will go a week on wednesday, or maybe tomorrow morning, anyone want to join?

Jo

Hannah Hoch

This is "Cut with a Kitchen Knife" the piece that I have talked so much about, I feel it incorporates all our ideas and what we're trying to pursue.

Chapman Brothers

I just want to reiterate on the Chapman Brothers, as we quickly passed over them and I was just thinking for our presentation they are fairly important; especially as a just found out a new piece of information about them.

They made work that was deemed appalling, vulgar and offensive. They also produced work for the White Cube gallery in 2008 that exhibited 13 apparently authenticated watercolours by Adolf Hitler, they added hippie motifs. Jake Chapman described most of the dictator's works as "awful landscapes" which they had "prettified".

George Grosz

He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dadaists. He was friends with the artist John Heartfield, together they wrote a book entitled "Jedermann sein eigner Fussball" (meaning "everyman his own football"). It included two photomontages by the artists themselves.

I put this in because he recalled that his dada art was intended as a protest "against this world of mutual destruction".

"[Dadaists] expressed their rejection of [capitalist society] in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality."