I have become behind on writing about this on my blog as we are currently setting up the exhibition at the moment.
So I will get up to date with what we have gained so far:
Throughout February and March we have been having weekly meetings updating on what we need to do as a networking team. Nine people are now involved in the exhibition having had a deadline in which we had to send a proposal, Nine people were successful in doing this. I am now currently working with:
Runa Begum
Ryan Higgins
Laura Burke
Marcin Wozniak
Jason Barker
Edwina McEachran
Adam Renshaw
Miriam Baynes
who are all or have been in the past, Interactive Arts students.
Because our exhibition is based on the theme of 'Religion', we decided to call our show 'No Offence Intended'. This was decided upon because religion is such a delicate subject matter, we have given a hidden meaning to our show in which could they be offensive? Come along and find out.
Deciding things that are a must have were posters and flyers, drinks for the opening night and an information booklet for the public, and after party event location. The exhibition will open on the 17th March then show for 10 days after the opening night until Saturday 26th March.
So far at the weekly meetings we have covered a lot of things.
Thanks to Laura who created a timetable it was easy to see what we had to do step by step.
For renting the space it was £200, split £25 each. Others costs have also been gathered into a kitty for equipment and other things we may need, this is £30.
We have visited the space and have currently moved in to set up, our set up dates are were from Wednesday 9th March till Thursday 17th March, in which is our opening night.
On Wednesday 2nd March a meeting was held at Blank Space to through any issues we had and what we could and could not do. We found we had a lot of freedom and everything was left up to us.
Spaces have been allocated for each Artist, decided by the curator of the exhibition Ryan Higgins. It was taken into consideration what each person was going to present for the exhibition. I am still currently not sure on the subject matter but know I want to project a video installation.
With each person given a role prior to moving into the space I was asked to find an after party venue and get alcohol for the opening night. I have been in touch with Dom at Sand Bar, who is an ex Interactive Arts Student and the after party will be held there. Free alcohol has also kindly been donated from Sand Bar. Marcin Wozniak has been in touch with Font Bar enquiring about free alcohol.
Upon seeing the previous opening exhibition at Blank Space we were able to confirm cases of wine from a company called Barefoot Wine, if we placed their logo on our flyer. This was not a problem at all and is now further networking connection we have made.
The flyer and poster has been designed by Ryan Higgins and Jason Barker and is currently in circulation around the city. Each of us have been placing flyers out in public places such as bars clubs galleries, and approaching the general public in the street.
The design behind the flyer was to keep it simple and something that was quite mysterious as to what it meant. Aesthetically I think the black works well with the gold.
Front of the flyer
Back of the flyer
We have just currently moved into the space and are on with preparing for the exhibition.
Watch this space....
