Thursday, 22 March 2012

EXHIBITION - P2P




We (Sarah, Andrew, Alan and I) planned to organise a flash-mobby public exhibition. The original title of our exhibition plan was Free Range Photographic. Below was Alan's memo of our first meeting.

Exhibition Summary

The aim is to have a number (4 seems the most popular but could be fewer or more?) of exhibitions where the participants are encouraged to show their images or image in a public place. The participants would find out about the location and timing of the event through advertising on the internet (Facebook etc.), media publication (e.g. Timeout) and printed publicity (Posters, flyers etc.).
The locations would be different for each exhibition and the style of presentation could/would be modified depending on the location.

Locations

The location mentioned so far are (I'm not sure if we dismissed any of these but thought I'd include them at this point):
  1. Tate Modern (inside Turbine Hall) [AC to contact Tate]
  2. Tate Modern (outside)
  3. Brick Lane Houses
  4. V&A Tunnel
  5. Stoke Newington Gallery Hall [AM to email manager]
  6. Trafalgar Square outside National Gallery
  7. A park e.g. Serpentine or the square near Liverpool St. Station where the statue is!
  8. Hoxton Square
  9. Cork St.
  10. Vinyl St.
Dates
We would try to have the events over four consecutive weekends.
May 12th thru June 2nd were pencilled in as possible dates i.e. after the essay is handed in. (We need to check that these dates don't clash with any other major event e.g. Golden Jubilee).

Exhibition Name

Free Range Photographic was suggested and will be used as a working title.

Roles/Tasks

We agree that we would need to have someone assigned to or make sure we cover the following:
  1. Overall Team Leader
  2. Project Manager responsible for each location to cover things we haven’t thought of!
  3. Legal stuff
  4. Advertising Content and Design
  5. Online presence (website etc.)
  6. Physical Media Production
  7. Planning
  8. Not a complete list.............
Besides the core group there are a number of people who are happy to help e.g. Robert, Pavla.

Advertising/Publicity

Possible advertising routes are:
  • Online
  1. Free Range Website
  2. Blog?
  3. Facebook
  4. Twitter
  5. loads more to add..........
  • Publications
  1. Timeout
  2. BJP
  3. Loads more to add.......
  • Printed
  1. Posters at Universities, Art Galleries etc
  2. Flyers
  3. Postcards
  4. etc?......
Advert Design, Trial Run

We need to give some serious thoughts to how the exhibitions are advertised. In this context it was suggested we should take some images in the next few weeks in possible locations and then use photoshop to produce some mock-ups of the poster etc. Also suggested we try to produce an artists impression of the exhibition.

Exhibition Styles of Presentation

A number of possible approaches could be taken (this isn’t a complete list but should get us thinking):
  1. People would bring small, medium and very large images to the location and stand with their image discuss their images with other people.
  2. A more performance oriented approach would require a curator, providing some narrative where images are arranged in groups
  3. A more conventional approach could be taken where there is a physical wall e.g. Stoke Newington or the V&A Tunnel with images put on the wall. (Something like the The Royal Academy but without the vetting process!)
  4. Images could be displayed via a projector onto a wall, tree or whatever is nearby
  5. etc.......
Selling

Should we encourage people to sell their images? Does this create problems in terms of local bi-laws, museums etc.

Audience

Not sure we discussed this but who are we aiming this at? Arty types, university arty types, photography enthusiasts, anyone, all of the above...........

Research

We should all start to research similar events that have happened either in London or other places. [All]

Budget

We didn’t discuss this but we should try to get some idea of how much we want to spend on this!

Next Meeting

Next Wednesday 15th Feb. after/before the lectures

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