Unformed Working Title.

Participants:

Rob Trostle
Daniel Harding
Kate Howe
Jiminie Ha

The Proposal

I would like to put on an exhibition of people’s never finished/failed/unsuccessful work that is altered throughout the exhibition so that it emerges at the end as a new piece of work.

Project objectives

Create a new work from old work in the exhibition.
Should be a collaborative effort.
There should be an online aspect of the exhibition.
The work of the exhibition should be part of the art or the art itself.

Proposal Considerations and Thoughts

Should each person participating modify a work they submitted, or someone else’s work?
Should it be an exchange between 2 people or more like a chain (assembly line)?
Can people barter for the works (to procure them) and whatever the artist deems worthy becomes the piece of art?
What is the documentation process?
How do the real world objects and the online aspects intersect?
Can a user modify the real world works online?
Should the exhibition be open anyone who wants manipulate the works?
Does the art stay in the exhibition space or can it leave?

Could it also be an alteration to the object itself? It must be done in the gallery with a record of the change and with(or without) the producer’s permission. Should there be a board that documents the changes? A bulletin board? (see Liam Gillick) See Gillick for idea of “unfinished” or “imperfection” He did not paint the walls all the way to the ground so you can see the edge. The stroke is an imperfection of a fully painted wall. “Nothing is more violently foreign to the industrial world than incompletion” (from Postproduction p.57) What existing social form is appropriate for this exhibition?