EOY - Thinking through ideas and intentions to prep for exhibition

Updated: Nov 22, 2021

What am I going to show out of my selection of works - videos of sites

How am I going to narrow down my project's ideas

What will the space narrate to an audience

How can I best use the space/2 spaces to extract my works full potential ...?

Space map (25 & 26):

Install breakdown and ideas:

Previously I had the 1. bike filming support, 2. Video/s and 3. Additional booklet dedicated solely to the objects in the project.

In thinking about finalising my project, I am working through what I want to present to a public audience, after my whole year's exploration of my project, that revolves around bike as a constructed filming support that explores various chosen sites in the NZ landscape.

Coming towards the end of the year, my project is becoming more about ideas of a built, absurd object, wherein the materials form an interwoven, clustered formation that speak to ideas of co-existing and interdependence. And then through the videos I can further explore this idea through application, where this object is a tool used to film and see things through a certain, subverted way.

In thinking about forming an install strategy for the project, I have been looking at how I can edit my multi-stranded work to an exhibition standard. Now that my space is confirmed for EOY, I can think about my that affects my plans of presentation, and how I can work towards using this space proficiently for my project.

I have been thinking about how the elements can occupy and interact with the space: how the video/s and bike-filming-support can work together and bring out the ideas and intentions of the work.

In the last meeting I had over zoom with Ngahuia, we talked through how my install could materialise in this space. This way, the the two spaces, I can think about where the video/s and bike might go, and whether the booklet of the salvaged objects I presented in the September seminar was going to be incorporated somehow too.

The past couple weeks I have been going through the process of testing install, (hanging methods for the bike) as well as making one more video with the bike-filming support, in the recent, tightly- built neighbourhood of Millwater, near an artificial pond with a bush walk. Ngahuia and I talked about whether to even make more work, as I already had a lot of videos already. If I wanted to make more work, we talked about where I could explore more within the current covid restrictions of a 5 K radius. From this subject we discussed the suburban areas of Silverdale and the parks that had been made to produce the effect of some wilderness and nature within the neighbourhoods, and how those interactions between people and their constructed landscapes could be something to unpack through the bike-support.

Although the covid restrictions opened up to include the wider Auckland a few days later after our catchup, I was itching to make work within the closer suburbs that we had talked about. I liked the idea of different sites getting thrown about, mingled and abstracted through filming with the bike-support, and wanted to compare the more monumental sites like Muriwai Reserve and the Waikato river in Huntly to the suburban construction of a pond in Millwater. The absurdity of my own interaction with the sites with the bike placed the recording of the sites in relation to each other; Muriwai is considered alongside the pond of Milwater, through a very similar experience through the videos.

This makes me think whether to make my install about the varying sites being compared to each other through the bike-support, OR just use one video of a site, with the bike-support exhibited alongside it.

Thinking about my intentions of the install/work.

The Booklet:

Also editing-wise — does the booklet of the objects add anything to the work that the work already doesn't do?

Does the work really need a breakdown of all the objects in the space? Do the work and booklet need each other…can the booklet be another independent rendition of the work later down the line instead, after EOY.

The booklet was a tool at the September seminar, as I used it to further unpack the 'online' installation. While the install viewing was online, I felt, through the audience's response, that the book provided another dimension of the work that was better suited to an online platform. However, now that the work will be viewing in person at EOY, does the booklet still function as a relevant piece of work? I'm not talking about dismissing it completely, but more though the lens of an editing process as well as polishing my intentions/ what I want the audience to get out of the work, while still making it a compelling install, without having unnecessary additional elements.

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