Click here for an overview of Day 10. LB: Trialling an international live projection ... : For over a year, since the beginning of lockdown in England, in March 2020, four of us, all part-time MA Fine Art students at Bath Spa University, have been meeting weekly online. Sarah, Tim and I are working together now at Real Space, in the real space; Hannah Fry, the fourth of our 'Gang of 4', is living in Barcelona at the moment, still doing the MA remotely, so we've been planning ways to collaborate with her in the gallery via Google Meets. Today we had a virtual meeting, with Tim, Sarah and I in Bath and Hannah in Barcelona and we trialled the set up, projecting the screen inside our projection space in the gallery. It worked! Now we're planning a live collaboration on Monday next week, sharing our projections via the internet and doing some live drawings and possibly painting, both in Bath and Barcelona. Watch this space and follow us on Instagram @realspace2021. .... and a drawing in space: For the past month or so I've been planning a socially engaged art project with Kat Dawe Schmeisser which will run throughout May 2021. Kat is doing an MA in Curatorial Practice at Bath Spa and she also runs The Art Cohort, a local community artspace near Locksbrook campus. I'll be setting up an installation, which will grow throughout the month, inside The Art Cohort and also several satellite, installations in outdoor public spaces nearby. To make visible my ideas, today I set up a site-responsive installation in the gallery to trial materials, colour, space, form. It was definitely like drawing in space, as I manipulated lines of brightly coloured wool to create a three dimensional installation. Very sadly, this iteration can't be participatory, due to the current restrictions, but hopefully the final installations, in May, will be. Louise Bourgeois said that 'Colour is stronger than language. It’s a subliminal communication.' I often work with red or black as, to me, these colours clearly communicate a range of complex meanings. Or I choose flesh colours to signify the body. For this installation, however, I have deliberately selected 6 bright colours, as the focus of the project in May is about making connections and moving forward after this year of isolation. Colour definitely communicates meaning and I think this palette is warm and cheery, which I thought would feel appropriate. Oddly, though, working with these colours in this particular gallery setting doesn't feel comfortable to me, for some reason. I think it's almost too cheery. I'm very conscious that this past year has been extremely hard for many people and it probably still will be for quite some time. Somehow, I want to visualise that balance between the acknowledgment of the loneliness and difficulties of isolation and the hopefulness of reestablishing connections as we move out of lockdown. To me, these colours don't communicate anything of the 'dark side' of what we've all experienced. It makes me think too much of May Day colours and bunting. I think I need to reconsider my palette.
I am planning to add abstract knitted sculptures to the installation, which will change the aesthetic, so maybe I should try that on Monday....
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