Friday 28th Jan...

Had a group activity with Mona to think about Press Releases.
Asked Mona about the idea for the exhibition being held outside, she said we can put it up Wednesday afternoon (16th) and take it down Thursday (17th) night, as long as she can change her timetable too because we have to have a tutorial with her within the space itself.

Kiri got in contact with our artist Niall through Facebook and he's given us a list of artworks for us to choose from to put in the show. Here's his Facebook message...

yes mate i'll be in quite a lot this week. . weve had quite a few weeks so i aint been is as much as i normally am cos i been on a bender or asleep. if you pop down to my studio this week im sure we can sort summink out. if you cant find me this is my number ..07539378785.

whats the theme of the show?
cos im just thinking about what you would like me to show.. my practice is print/ collage/ performance/ intervention / poetry/ acoustici protest music - also you might have seen the bookstand near the library - i could hand type and produce manifestos or pamphlets to give out during the xhibition in a work area within the gallery? im really interested in subverting the gallery/ art show. if you have any ideas around that gis a shout.

Rachel and Becci are going to interview them through Facebook and will grab them at any available moment at uni. Tomorrow MEETING IN OUR SPACE AFTER THE BREIFING WITH JENNY we'll go down to find Niall and the two other artists and get things SORTED for definate!

Mona did mention that we need to distinguish between the "type" of practical work we're going to be showing, Anarchism implies strong rebellion and protest art and she said that the "Graffiti" work might not fit in with Nialls expressionate work.

KATIE :)

Political Protest

Some work from our Tutor group from the previous Printing brief relating to our themes and ideas  :)
                                     
                                                                      Sam...

                                                                      Hannah...

Ash...

                                                                           Kiri...

Then I found a notice board full of political posters and debates in the library corridor, I'm pretty sure it's Nialls work, one of our artists!...

KATIE :)

Tomorrow...

I'm going to wander round uni tomorrow and take pictures of other possible places to exhibit the show just incase our outdoors idea back fires. Ive already got a few ideas so we'll discuss it in the meeting after our lecture and then i'll post the photos asap.
I'll also keep an eye out for our artists!
KATIE .

V&A touring exhibition on Street Art

Street Art

Street Art is a diverse, constantly evolving art form, one that moves across the derelict buildings, bus shelters and hoardings of cities across the world. Graffiti galleries on the internet take the street art scene from local to global, in your face but transient. The genre is as difficult to pin down as is to define - shifting rules apply. Street art has its roots in history, echoing cave paintings and stencilled slogans and images in political campaigning. The work collected by the V&A is figurative, rather than based on writing.
Urban art delivers social commentary while illustrating the subconscious of the 21st century city. Traditional genres are newly interpreted: portraiture, surrealism, pop art. Random references and symbols run through the street art story: Warhol's kids stencil film stars, arte povera students recycle free stickers, political propagandists take on the self-promoting signature taggers. Narratives emerge, visual worlds are created. Politics are less discussed, more shouted. A psychedelic sense of visual humour bounces through. Everything is a fair subject: spiky comments on the state of the world exist alongside images of forgotten celebrities of yesteryear. There is no common aesthetic, more an attitude: irreverence, democracy and freedom.
The V&A collected these works in an effort to capture an ephemeral contemporary aesthetic and a form of printmaking that have influenced mainstream graphics. Most notably recent advertising has been using the language of street stencils, plundering underground visuals in an effort to appeal to the young consumer.
There exists an energetic production of websites and magazines that archive this work, created by a network of peers. The one defining feature of the genre is its accessibility. It is unexpectedly available for view on the boarded up windows on your high street, or shared on the internet for all to see. Although street art is a genre defined by its outsider status, some galleries are now exhibiting it, bringing it in from the outside.
The V&A has traditionally collected new forms of printmaking, as well as ephemera and various forms of graphic art. Artists seen here use varying methods of image-making, ranging from simple stencilling to digitally printing multiple stickers, all of which can be grouped together under the heading 'printmaking'.

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These works, alongside examples of other forms of printmaking, ephemera and graphic art, can be seen at various galleries around the country in 2011 & 2012.
The Herbert, Coventry, 9 October 2010 - 16 January 2011 
The Civic, Barnsley, 28 January - 23 March 2011  
Black Rat Press Gallery, London, 14 - 29 April 2011  
Nottingham Castle and Museum, 2 July -  25 September 2011   
Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent, 8 October - 27 November 2011 
Ulster Museum, Belfast, 9 December 2011 - 4 March 2012  
Bradford One Gallery, 17 March - 10 June 2012  
Tullie House, Carlisle, 22 September - 9 December 2012

Sam 

Minutes for meeting 20/1/11

Meeting attended by Ash, Hannah, Becci, Katie, Rachael, Kiri and Sam

It was agreed that the following people will do the following jobs -
Ash & Hannah - Marketing & Design
Becci & Rachael - Artists liiason
Katie & Kiri - Wordsmiths
Sam - PA/ Admin

It was agreed that the name of Exhibition is "Tomorrow belongs to us....." Brilliantly researched and put forward by Ash

It was agreed which areas of the outdoor space we would use and with extra research on the logistics of this Sam has emailed Mona regarding shifting times of set up and Strike of the exhibition. It seems that the bins are emptied Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning so if we are going to use the space we need to work round this.

Hannah has made contact with the artists who have assessments but are free from the 31st Jan to discuss - this means we have less than three weeks to curate and put together the exhibition so suggest an extra meeting on Tuesday 1st after lecture to discuss. We have confirmed Niall and Matthew and one other - name not known? as the artists though this is not definitive and we are still open for options.

It was agreed that the deadline for all artists work are submitted was 11th Feb.

It was agreed that postcards will be ordered next week and that Hannah and Ash will bring ideas for marketing to the next meeting. 

Please confirm via facebook proff practice group that you are available for meeting on Tuesday after
our lecture.


Sam

Ideas for Poster- Symbols and Signs:

As I am one of the people creating posters to advertise our exhibiton i decided to do some research for ideas of signs relating to the theme of anarchy that we could use.

The Circle-A- The circle-A long predates the anarcho-punk movement, which was part of the punk rock movement of the late 1970s. However, the punk movement helped spread the circle-A symbol more widely, and helped raise awareness of it among non-anarchists. This process began with the use of anarchist imagery by the Sex Pistols, though Crass were the first punk band to use the circle-A as well as being the first to espouse serious anarchist views. They had earlier discovered it – then merely an extremely esoteric political emblem – while traveling through France. With time the symbol, and "anarchy" as a vague synonym for rebelliousness, were incorporated into common punk imagery. This led to gradual appearances in mainstream culture over the course of several years, at times far removed from its political origin (described by Situationists as "recuperation"). These appearances typically connected it with anarchy and were intended as sensationalist marketing ploys, playing off of mainstream association of anarchy with chaos. This process mirrored the process of punk subculture coming into the mainstream, which occurred at approximately the same time. The first recorded use of the A in a circle by anarchists was by the Federal Council of Spain of the International Workers Association. This was set up by Giuseppe Fanelli in 1868. It predates its adoption by anarchists as it was used as a symbol by others. According to George Woodcock, this symbol was not used by classical anarchists. In a series of photos of the Spanish Civil War taken by Gerda Taro a small A in a circle is visibly chalked on the helmet of a militiaman. There is no notation of the affiliation of the militiaman, but one can presume he is an Anarchist. The first documented use was by a small French group, Jeunesse Libertaire ("Libertarian Youth") in 1964. Circolo Sacco e Vanzetti, youth group from Milan, adopted it and in 1968 it became popular throughout Italy. From there it spread rapidly around the world.

The Black Cross- The Anarchist Black Cross organization's primary goal is to eliminate all prisons. It originated in Tsarist Russia as a support organization for political prisoners. Their symbol is a black cross, with the upwards-facing line being replaced with a raised fist, a symbol also associated with anarchism, defiance of authority, and personal empowerment (black power, youth power, women's liberation, American Indian Movement, International Socialist Organization, 'power to the people', etc...). The fist also represents union, as "many weak fingers can come together to create a strong fist". The cross is a modification of the Red Cross emblem used by International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (founded 1863), the world's largest group of humanitarian organizations. Originally called the Anarchist Red Cross, the name was changed around 1920 to avoid confusion when the Red Cross started organizing relief for prisoners as well.

The Black Rose- The Black Rose is a rarely used symbol of the anarchist movement. Black Rose Books is the name of the pre-eminent anarchist bookstore in Montreal, an anarchist infoshop in Portland, Oregon, and is now the name of a small press imprint headed by anarchist philosopher Dimitrios Roussopoulos. Black Rose was the title of a respected journal of anarchist ideas published in the Boston area during the 1970s, as well as the name of an anarchist lecture series addressed by notable anarchist and libertarian socialists (including Murray Bookchin and Noam Chomsky) into the 1990s.

The Jolly Roger-  The Jolly Roger as a black flag with skull and bones has recently gained a popularity among anarchists.Some claim to use the Jolly Roger as a form of appreciation for the Pirate way of life in freedom and a lack of authority. Many Pirate ships were loosely democratic and most crew mates were working class fugitives from the highly repressive societies in which they were born. Anarchists may find affinity with the concept of pirate utopias, especially the island of legend, Libertatia. The Libertatian pirates have been identified as precursors to anarchists. Some Internet and techno-anarchists consider themselves pirates due to their free lifestyles in the world of technology and their defiance of copyright laws which is called "pirating". Several articles relating to the connection between anarchism and piracy can be found in the libcom.org library Nestor Makhno's The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, an Anarchist militia, used a variation of the Jolly Roger.

The Black Flag- The black flag, and the color black in general, have been associated with anarchism since the 1880s. Many anarchist collectives contain the word "black" in their names. There have been a number of anarchist periodicals entitled Black Flag. The uniform blackness of this flag is representative of the negation of all oppressive structures, in deliberate contrast to the colourful flags typical of most nation-states. Additionally, as a white flag is the universal symbol for surrender to superior force, the black flag is a symbol of defiance, an opposition to surrender.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism)

Sam also suggested using a comic book style as the idea for the title came from Bat Man.

Ash.

Back date- December 10th

Group Communication:

I created a group on Facebook called Professional Practice and added all of the members from our group. I did this as it allows us to stay in contact and share ideas for the exhibition outside of university.

Ash.

Back date- January 20th

Ideas for title:

'Let us rise!' - the idea for this title came from a quote from Max Stirner, one of the literary fathers of anarchism in the 1800's. The quote is from his book 'The Ego and His Own'; the full quote is ' the great are great only because we are on our knees, let us rise!'.

Max Stirner- Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner  was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Only One and his Property). This work was first published in 1844 in Leipzig, and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.

'Tomorrow belongs to us!'- the idea for this title came from two places; it is the title of a Bat Man comic from the 90's, it is also the name of a song by the punk band The Casualties. I purposely picked titles which had 'us' in them as i felt it seemed more direct and it would relate to the reader, who ever they were.

Bat Man: Anarky- Featured as an antagonist in various Batman comics during the '90s, stories based on the character were highly thematic, political, and philosophical in tone. The majority of the collected stories ("Anarky in Gotham City", "Anarky: Tomorrow Belongs to Us", "Anarky") are influenced by the philosophy of anarchism, while the final story ("Metamorphosis") is influenced by Neo-Tech. Although anti-statism is the overarching theme of the collection, other concepts are explored. Anarky's characterization was expanded throughout the stories to present him first as a libertarian socialist and anarchist, and in the final story as a vehicle for explorations into atheism, rationalism, and bicameralism. Literary references are also utilized throughout the collected stories to stress the philosophical foundations of the character.

I presented my ideas for the title at our group meeting and as a group we decided to use 'Tomorrow belongs to us!'.

Ash.

Ideas...

Had our meeting and divided up jobs for everyone...
Me and Kiri are sorting out - The powerpoint
                                          - Press Release / Statement
                                          - Exhibition Guide
IF YOU SEE ANY OF THE ARTISTS! GRAB THEM!
give them our names, get their names, add them on facebook, tell them where our studio space is if they want us, tell them the deadline for giving us their work is FRIDAY 11TH FEB.11

I was just having a think about different areas around uni we could display the exhibition in if it turns out that we're not allowd to use the bins. This might be because of health n saftey or because the bins have to be emptyed when we would be exhibiting the work, which would be a problem because that means we'd have to take the work down earlier than it says we should do.

so...with AMIKAM TOREN'S influence in mind we could display the work...

-in toilets
-in the corridors or under stair wells, hanging up or piled up.
-in the installation space (in the basement) it's really dark and closed in which would create quite a confrontational atmosphere linking to the anarchism theme.

KATIE :)

WE SHOULD...

MAKE AN EVENT THING ON FACEBOOK 4 OUR EXHIBITION...
then we can add people from uni to it so they know whats happening :)
not sure how to make one tho....job for Ash maybe..

will mention it tomorrow in the meeting :)

OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS TO MENTION:
- defo give our artists deadlines, maybe the friday before we set up, so that'll be the 11th Feb..or monday the 14th at the lastest! then we can set eveything up on wednesday afternoon the 16th, shows up on the 17th Feb, take it down friday the 18th. :)

what about, maing an EXHIBITION GUIDE.

LOADS OF THINGS TO SORT OUT TOMORROW
WE NEED TO GET CRACKING!

PPPLLEAAASSEEE ALL ATTEND :)

KATIE E. 

Group Meeting

To discuss at next group meeting (Thurs 20th Jan):

-How will we advertise the exhibition?
-Think of designs for posters/flyers
-Talk to the artists again, and confirm which artworks we will show
-Decide on a name for our exhibition


Kiri Smart

Our Exhibition Title

We need to start thinking about ideas for the name of our exhibition. As our theme is 'anarchy' I have brainstormed some ideas of names to do with this theme:

• Shout
• Object
• Hullabaloo
• Protest
• Outcry
• Express
• Oppose
• Declare
• Outrage
• Scandal
• Rage
• Outcry  
• Uproar
• Lawless
• Rebel
• Let’s rebel
• Chaos

Kiri Smart

Outdoors Exhibition?

Above are some pictures of the outside space we're considering on using for the exhibition. It's location is at the university round the back of the metal workshop where the skip bins are, the bike racks and bits of junk! Good atmosphere for an anarchist theme.

TO DO:
* Think of a Title
* How are we going to advertise the exhibition?
-anarchism = protests?
-posters, signs?
* Get in contact with our artists!
-phone numbers, facebook...tell them what we're doing when our deadline is (17th Feb) and give THEM a deadline for work.
* Gather info for our 'Written Statement'
-our themes and concepts
-our audiences
-our thoughts in general
-successes and failers

NEXT MEETING - THURSDAY 20TH JAN.2011
NEXT PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LECTURE - 10AM FRIDAY 28TH JAN.11

KATIE ECCLESTON :)

some less well known graffiti artists

The first artist is called Dr.D. He alters billboards to make them say completely different things.

http://www.drd.nu/

Theres his official page it has loads of his art up but i can't copy and paste unfortunately. Not only does he do billboards he does posters and other more political based pieces.

Another artist is 3Dom. I don't no much about him unfortunately not very good with the internet. All i no he's from Bristol. Here's his webpage it's good but don't click forward when your on the picture or it takes you off his page.

http://www.bristol-street-art.co.uk/artist/3dom

Other places we could look at is the graffiti on the berlin wall. 

Ignore the guy in this photo i don't no who he is but its one of the better ones off the internet.

Robin Rhodes and Janine Antoni

One of our artists, Nial Singh suggested that he could bring a different genre to our exhibition through performance art. The theme would still anarchism but perhaps performed instead of a traditional 'on the wall painting or drawing.' He liked the idea of working with the objects outside, mentioning the bike racks as a particular element to perform on and amoung. The action of anarchism rather than the aftermath.

I found two performance artists, Robin Rhode and Janine Antoni whilst researching in one of the workshops, and found their work really interesting. They both deviate from the 'norm' as it were when it comes to concepts of art, linking to our anarchism theme.
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Robin Rhode is a South African artist, born 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa, now based in Berlin, Germany. In 1998, he obtained a diploma in Fine Art from Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, followed by a postgraduate program at the South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Art in Johannesburg.
Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded and refined this practice into creating photography sequences and digital animations. These works are characterized by an interdisciplinary approach that brings aspects of performance, happening, drawing, film and photography together. Rhode often returns to his native South Africa, creating work in the streets of Johannesburg and continuously registering the traces of poverty and social inequality. An outstanding characteristic of his works is his addressing of social concerns in a playful and productive manner, incorporating these issues into his practice without simplifying or judging them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rhode


JANINE ANTONI
The conceptual photographer, performance artist and sculptor Janine Antoni is perhaps best known for staging one of the most unconventional and provocative kisses in the history of art. In Mortar and Pestle, Antoni created a photographic tableau of the artist's tongue licking a man's eyeball in order to, as the artist put it, "know the taste of his vision."

In her subsequent projects, including Loving Care 1993, where the artist painted the gallery floor with hair dye using her head as a brush, and the more recent video Touch, in which she appears to walk on water by balancing on a strategically placed tightrope, Antoni developed a reputation for imbuing established conceptual practices with a new emotional tenor.

http://www.canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2009/05/07/janine-antoni/

BY KATIE ECCLESTON :)