MA Fine Art
28.01.26
Discussing the next steps for our work, we realised that a lot of our ideas had the common factor of involving other participants. We’d been thinking about authorship and thought it could be interesting to explore the idea of relinquishing control and authorship of our own ideas, at the same time benefitting from the input from coursemates.
We had a short amount of time to get ready & nothing to lose (this is not assessed work), so decided now was a great time to experiment.
We’d also been talking about art as an event, so it all seemed to fall into place as something we should try.
MANIFESTO!
Have the essence of your work ready in the space…ie concepts/materials
Be open to change
Be open to different concepts
Each member will help any other member
Undefined
Everyone’s work belongs to everyone
A little less conversation, a little more action Please!
The process is the art
Ultimatum for materials: Tuesday 27th Jan in the White Column
Day of experiment: Wednesday 28th Jan at 10am
The manifesto is a living document & subject to change
Name of exhibition to be decided on day of experiment (28th)
It’s all part of the fun!
15 minutes, then move round
Noone can work on their own piece
Participants MA Fine Art: Abbie, Aparna, Ben, Idia, Liz, Matteus, Rory & Shannon
“For me, the 'Ours but not Ours' was a piece of live installation art that required the actions of the participants (artists) in creation and destruction. This White Column show was an experimental success with a 15-minute rotation format. I would look forward to attempting this again, to produce more accomplished work, with more materials and group conceptualisation.” Rory
“Interesting” Matteus
“I had thought it would be great to have others input into my own work (which I did get, and that was brilliant) but what I hadn’t realised was how freeing it would be to work with other peoples’ materials, without expectation and to know that what I had done could be re-done, destroyed, or built upon by the next person. Accepting the destroying part was a bit of a challenge from both angles but also fun” Liz