PINTEREST

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PINTEREST UNIT X

CONSTRUCTION AT VENUE

Today a 3pm the events team (Me, Camilla, Liam, Hannah and Olivia) met at the Bayhorse ready to construct our event, the first thing we did was put our work up, so me and Camilla got to work putting the 175 word weave in the window and the others put up the t-shirts and and sorted out the projector, everything went along smoothly the weave slipped between the two pains of glass in the window and was secured with fishing wire, the t-shirts were pegged on several washing lines in front of some mirror's. I thought the t-shirt's looked effective even without the video but once the video was projected onto it, it looked amazing! Once everything was put up we layed out the zine posters and I put some in the windows to advertise we were here.

The event was a great success the pub was booming and was very busy and a lot of people were interested and impressed by our work, Hannah and Camilla handed out wine at the event and we also had a DJ, it was a real celebration! I have enjoyed working as group on this project and I think we should all be proud of ourselves for working so hard and it had most definitely paid off!!

POSTER OF ZINE

Today me and Camilla went to Paperchase and purchased some colour sugar paper and brown paper, the idea is to print selected pages of the zine onto it with the website of the zine on them so at the venue they can be handed out to people so they can check us out online when they get home. 

At first we struggled with the printing of them but eventually we were on a role, here are what we produced and what are to be handed out. We used the front cover, page's 10 - 11, 14-15 and 24 of the zine.

PAINT WAR VIDEO

Liam has finished the final paint war video and it's brilliant! it's exactly 175 seconds long which i think is a really fun idea! I think we should all be proud of it! I think the music playing on the video is also a really good effect - gives out the thought of fun and celebration.

PAINT WAR VIDEO

After discussions with management at The Bayhorse we have decided the film will be projected onto the t-shirts that were worn during the video - i think this could look really interesting and effective! 

THE ZINE

Our online zine is now finished! We have all worked so hard together to make and provide the material to go in the zine and I think Amber and James have done an excellent job in designing it! 

Our Online Zine

CREATING THE FINAL WEAVE (175 WORDS)

Today we (Camilla & I) finished the paper weave- it is constructed of strips of paper and acetate with my picture edits of Manchester, plain pink card (to represent logo), written and typed up words. It also has wire running through it which when secure we molded and moved to make the weave have shape and movement. we also had the mirror's to represent reflection. 

We have decide to name the weave '175 words' which represents the 175 words collected of students and tutors round the art building.

This piece will hang in the window of our chosen venue 'The Bayhorse' in the northern quarter so it is mounted on foam board so it is secure.

Finished Piece

Overall I am Very pleased and proud of this piece as we have worked hard on it and I believe that it has paid off.

PROMOTIONAL POSTER

Today I created this poster to promote and invite people along to our event, Me and Hannah then put them up around the art school, hopefully people will be interested and attend!

THE EMERGENCE

Today Camilla, Hannah and Amber created 'The Emergence' - the idea behind it is that us a students are ready to emerge out of university and into the world. The fabric was created and designed by amber with paint and Hannah had modelled the emergence of a butterfly. 

The inspiration behind this is of Stanislav Odyagailo and his 'to catch a wind' project which I initially looked at when starting this project looking a wind speed.

TREE WRAPPING EVENT

Today we wrapped the tree's on the roof garden, after the first half an hour of trying to wrap the fabric over the tree's we gave up with that idea, the wind was to strong and the fabric could have done with being slightly bigger - on the plus because it was so windy we were able to wrap fabric around the trunk and bind the fabric into the bottom of the tree and let the wind do its magic!

PAINT WAR!

Today we held the paint war! we had 10 volunteer's (a little less than we wanted be we made the most of what we had!) we took them to a secret location (a piece of wasteland), we also gave hem all a plain white t-shirt to walk to the venue in. We used powder paints used in the Holi festival to fight with, everyone had a lot of fun and we filmed and took a lot of photographs of the war, Liam will edit the video and the final video will be projected at the venue on our event night. 

Liam, Olivia and Hannah also made picket board's for the volunteer's to hold up - they are revolting against the dullness of Manchester and splashing colour on it. 

I think the paint fight was a great success and i look forward to seeing the final video! 

VENUE

After visiting the Bayhorse Pub everyone in the group is satisfied that it is a good location for us to exhibit our work, their will also be another group from revolt exhibiting there so I think it would be a good idea to talk to the other group about who, when and where things in the Bayhorse are being put up. 

TRIAL CONSTRUCTION OF WEAVE

As a way of using the '175 words' collected from people in and around the art school, myself and Camilla have decided to collaborate and create a paper weave. We first trialed this on a small A2 scale, cutting strips of bright pink paper (to represent the colour of the logo in the new art school design), photographs that i edited (from the previous post), the written words collected in the art school, and some of the words typed up on thin strips, we weaved this all together - entwining the aspects of the art school together. we also added small mirrors once weaved, we did this to represent not only the outer structure of the new art building, but we as students are often asked to reflect on ourselves and our work. 

We intend to develop this on a larger scale - also add wire to make movement in the piece - to represent the struggle people had to come up with just one word to represent their thoughts on the new art building.

Later that day I trialed the weave again at home, this time i made it looser - pulling parts up to make it move, I also used papers with more colour which i don't think looked as successful as the previous trail.

We also need to think about how to make the weave secure- we don't want to pick it up and it fall apart, if we also use wire we need to think about what kind of wire will be strong enough and what colour.

TREE WRAPPING

Taking inspiration from Christo & Jeanne Claude, Myself, Amber and Camilla have decided to collaborate and make our own 'Tree Wrappings', we have chose and have permission to wrap the small newly planted tree's on the new art school roof garden (links in with the colour that students add to the art school). 

Today we went to Abakarn's fabric store in the Northern Quarter to buy the fabric, we chose a light chiffon fabric (easier for the wind to lift) in 3 colours; bright pink, bright green and bright orange - they reminded me of highlighter pen colours. 

We intend to wrap the tree's on Thursday 9th May and have arranged for a technician to supervise and help us, Olivia will also be taking pictures.

PUTTING COLOUR IN THE CITY

Throughout this unit our goal has been to celebrate the art school through colour and channel that colour into the city, after today's group meeting we talked about covering random objects such as lamppost's, telephone boxes and traffic cones in bright pink fabric (bright pink to represent 175 logo - the school) to add colour into the city - exploring the idea of covering the city with colour, after the meeting I walked around Manchester taking photographs of busy and random area's around the city. my aim was to pick an object out of each pictures and edit using the app 'colour effect' to make it stand out in bright pink - make it look odd. 

Here are some examples of the photo's I have edited - 

The object's I made bright pink were as small as a sign to as large as a building. I think that these photographs are very effective. the pictures represent the art school pouring into the city and the student's 'colouring the city'.

DECIDING A VENUE

Today we had a tutorial with Julie and had a discussion about where we are going to exhibit our work, a possibility is the Bayhorse Pub in the Northern Quarter. people who I have spoke to who have been there have said it is small but quite rustic which i think could work well with our work.

DRY THE RIVER (HORSES)

This is the 'Dry the river' project, the video above pretty much explains what they did. This was shown to me at yesterday's tutorial. I found it interesting how people reacted to the '3D Poster'. with this in mind as a group we have decided to create our own 'tag' which will be put up and photographed in various places around Manchester - it will be interesting to see how people react to it being there, they will question it, why is it there? what does it mean?.... but why should it not? 

YARN BOMBING & TREE WRAPPING

Yarn bombing i believe is also another type of 'temporary graffiti'. yarn also adds colour to things that it is knitted around, for example - a tree stump is dull & drab, but when yarn is knitted/wrapped around it, it becomes interesting! Colour tends to make people stop and look at something - especially if it shouldn't be there, they question it, why is it there? what is the point of it being there?

I think that using yarn to wrap/knit things with to create colour in random/odd places also will inject my skills into the group. 

Yarn Bombing Examples

This makes me think of the term 'Dressing The City' which indicates to 'Colour The City'

Yarn being wound around tree's also reminds me of artist's 'Christo & Jeanne Claude'

Christo & Jeane Claude

I came across these artist's when discussing wind speed in my group, they wrap and cover/cloak tree's & create curtains of fabric in unexpected and random places on a huge scale. they use the wind to pick up the fabric to create a ballooning affect.

You can see the tree silhouette through the fabric which i think is a beautiful effect, and would look amazing with coloured fabric wrapped over it - we could also wrap fabric around other objects such as, phone boxes, post boxes, seat , tables and so on... anything! why not?

175 WORDS

After a morning of brainstorming with the group we all decided to split up and under go different tasks - as we have a lot to do with only just over 3 weeks left, Olivia and Hannah had the task of creating a mood board, Liam went to take photographs of Manchester with a 'wet paint' sign (in the morning we had talked about paint and how we could use it - but it doesn't actually have to be there and we were interested in how people reacted to the sign) and me and Camilla went into the new cafe in the art building and asked 175 people to describe the new art building in one word,

 this was an experiment to see if they had a similar idea to us of it being 'grey' and 'concrete.'

we asked each student/tutor/workman/staff to fold up the paper so we couldn't see the word. after collecting 175 words we sat down as a group and looked at what words came up - we were right - there were no words like 'colourful' or 'exciting' it is in fact the students that create this colour - without the students it's just a building. 

common words were 'big', 'grey', 'concrete' & 'dull' - but some did say it was 'airy', 'congregated' & 'social' which are needed in a creative space. 

what was also quite interesting is that we gave everyone a black pen to write with and at the end of it we had 174 in black and one in red. 

we next intend to present and photograph them in an innotive and interesting arrangment linking to the art school.

COLOUR IN THE CITY II

I have started to research how graffiti and street art is presented in city's/towns and how the simplest logo/spray of colour can add interest to the city - and makes people look in a dull & drab place and see it differently. 

Lego Wall Art

Cracks in old crumbling dull wall's are filled with constructed Lego piece's in a variety of colour's  - this is a different type of 'graffiti' that in general it is thought to be, but is interesting to see - it's like the city is being 'rebuilt' with colour, the sign of a new generation.

Rio Street Art

Cracks in pavements, wall's etc are filled with yarns/thread's that are bound together/crocheted. these appear in random places around Rio - various coloured threads are used - this is similar to the Lego - rebuilding with colour. This also reminds me of 'yarn bombing' which I previously looked at in my 'Origins' project. 

General Graffiti

Graffiti is found in almost every town/city across the world, although it is technically illegal, most people in modern times see it as art. Graffiti I believe is REVOLTING against working on a plain canvas or white paper - but explore your city, colour the city! create your city! I think temporary graffiti, such as posters & tags would work well in this project - put our colour stamp on the city, photograph our tag/art in random places around town, why not? 

COLOUR IN THE CITY

Today we brainstormed ways of which colour is put into the city, we came up with graffiti, street art and tagging. researching into this further in a group it was mentioned that famous rapper Jay-z's newest book 'Decode' was involved in a tagging project -

"When Jay Z decided to release his autobiography, he teamed up with search engine ‘Bing’ to create a truly outlandish, yet brilliant campaign. Pages of his book appeared in billboards, Gucci jackets and swimming pools around the world, whilst the collaboration with Bing proved to be a dream partnership."

People all over the world got involved in this project - another form of celebration, and his book was noticed and talked about, he REVOLTED against the usual way of publishing his book.