Post Crit Development

What to do next?
- Develop exhibition in order to make other content from this (web/publication/catalogue etc).
1. What to put in it?
> Stock photos
> Own photos people in galleries
> Own photos of body/interacting with books (film) etc.

2. How to exhibit?
> Need to figure out best way to make people notice own bodies.
> Develop a variety of ways, mock up and send to peers to evaluate.
> Refine ideas based on feedback.

Content of Exhibition?
> Fluxus movement. A movement that embodies a lot about my project but isn't directly related to bringing attention to the body.
 - Photographs of the works, as lots were physical prompts. Could have prompts in catalogue to encourage audience to test them?
 - Photographs of people automatically bring people's attention to their own body (is this true? test on peers).
> Stock photos. Could be of anything.
 - Why would people attend the exhibition? If they knew the context maybe, but the idea isn't to tell people straight away otherwise the objective is reduced.

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What to people think of?
Should the work be what makes the audience aware of their body or the way the exhibition is laid out?
- asked people to tell me what they thought of when looking at these different series of images.
- needing to gauge the audience and what they think when they seen specific thing.

1. Random Objects

1. My first thought was about the difference in what people consider art.
2. Also interesting what colour does to effect emotion - for example that’s a very happy banana (not an innuendo) where as the key as an image comes across kind of bleak.
3. Trying to find links between them but just keep thinking of ‘holders’ like key holders, vases hold flowers, camera - eye of the beholder? Skateboards hold people? Banana skin holds the fruit inside etc.
4. Controlled, peaceful, powerful.
5. Simple, cool but kinda extra like they're things people would buy to be cool, clean.
6. I really like the look of them individually but together they feel a bit lost. I’m getting a slight uneasy feeling from them I think because of there only being one part of the frame that is utilised.

2. Body

1. Everything is sculpted with a purpose or function.
2. About the power and impressiveness (you can probs think of a better word than that) of the body.
3. Vulnerability being strength (it that makes sense?) self care and awareness and structure.
4. The body.
5. It makes me think of been free! The notion that we are physically and mentally able to what we are want and we can express this privilege through our bodies and movement.
6. Anatomy/the body/individualism. 

3. Fluxus

1. War.

2. Dark, repressed, overwhelmed, pressure, struggles, complicated?

3. Slightly saddened by the destruction, but also kind of confused as to what’s going on in some of them.

4. Nice photographs.

5. Repairing, destroying, instruments, groups , reflection, crowded.

6. Social experiments, tests, reactions, scientific, performance art, study.

Reflections:

People seemed to think a lot about what they were looking at. 

> For the objects no one said objects, whereas people mentioned the body in the images about the body.

> For the photos on Fluxus most felt the images had dark themes. More context was needed on these images to all them to make sense. 

From this research I think having stock photos in the exhibition might work but doesn't add any intrigue. Presenting images of the body would be more obvious in making the audience think about their own body, however I feel there could be more inventive ways of achieving this goal. 

I think presenting images from the Fluxus movement would be best, would avoid being repetitive in how they look, is presenting a topic that the audience would be interested in, and the techniques used by the movement (prompts, audience participation etc) could be employed into the exhibition itself. 

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Where would the exhibition take place? Why?

Gallery spaces, wouldn't want it to feel too clinical, be tailored to people who are interested in the arts, I think an audience that's already interested in art would take the most from the exhibition. As well being placed in a gallery would make the interventions even more obvious that something is different. 

Home Manchester - Went here for an interactive VR, AR exhibition, was really interesting! The space is nice and large, not too big, light etc. Host a lot of creative events in the space, show indie films etc. 

Floor Plan of HOME

^ Gallery is open plan, partitions can be placed in the space.

Questions to ask self:

1. How would the exhibition work?

2. What would be the interventions put in place to make the audience think of their own body?

3. How would this impact the layout?

Experimenting with layouts of the space:

- Need to come up with the way the work will be displayed and then work backwards.

1. Work being placed high up and low down to make the audience position themselves not how they normally would.

- Physical intervention, brings attention as you're having to do things differently.

2. Having a projector project the marker where people aren't allowed to cross.
- This way the line could move, people would have to be aware of their body, where they're standing etc.
- Could change every 10 mins?

3. Having the view being obstructed so you have to navigate the exhibition, move around objects the be able to see the work.
- Not so sure about this one as not much of this would bring attention to the body, more so just that you can't see the work as easily.

Could have the exhibition be in sections in order to adopt different interventions?

- Would this be too complicated, would make the exhibition experience very sectioned off, less cohesive and could impact the overall experience.

The issue with these is I won't know how effective they are, unable to test them out so would all be hypothetical.
- Need to think of interventions I've experienced in order to ensure they work!