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PUBLIC COLLABORATION IDEA

My idea for this collaboration project is to venture outside the hallowed institutional shrine to art with the intention of entering into dialogue with the outside world and society at large. Using the interactions of members of the public and their participation to create a collaborative art piece that will coexist within the public space and solely stay there. 

The dialogue of the past and present, the identification of space as place and a collaboration as material, the momentary captured in the monumental, the pursuit of subtlety in banality.. allowing those who participate and interact with the piece their own discovery of the non everyday within their everyday. By this i mean that i will use objects that people associate with their everyday, objects which may not have any significant meaning or which could hold something ultimately important.

The project will consist of a selection of mirrors and photoframes (left empty) scattered within public spaces, creating the non everyday within the everyday. The viewers can then particpate within the site specific installation and interact as and when thy chose, without any binding contract and without any knowledge that what they are interacting with is indeed a piece of art.

The message and context for this project is subtle yet subliminal, for me as the artist is it a comment and action against the growing environmental problems in which we as society are facing, the way i am trying to achieve this is by adding these glitches within reality, although the photoframes are empty and the mirrors not reflecting any of significance they hold great importance. If the mirror was reflecting the effects and damage done due to these growing environmental issues and if the photoframes were hung displaying facts about these problems then would that have nay more of an impact than letting these objects and glitches portray what the viewer wants.


2. These public spaces act as a natural canvas in which we as artists can choose to crate using or alongside. The objects will become a focus point of the mundane and overlooked, drawing attention to areas in which we otherwise may not see. The mirrors will reflect a distorted version of the original, allowing for more contextualisation and an alternative viewpoint for the viewer.
1. "Glitch" a brief irregularity in the notion of the present. Creating an irregularity in the present reality, distorting the original space or landscape. Using objects which have some, or no belonging within the space "the non everday within the everyday"
"Mirror" reflects a clear image, accurately representing something else.
Repeat, match, reproduce, reflect, copy, mimic, echo, parallel.
"Parallel" occuring or existing at the same time or in some way corresponding.
"Echo" a close parallel to an idea, feeling or arena.
These words all correspond to the thought of the everyday and who our lives may be different but intertwine, by adding these objects it allows this glitch in reality to become seen and allows the audience participation.



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