Presentation Ideas
I left the project at the point of the bowl presentation form on a plinth, as the previous A5 typed sheets in a pile on a plinth were too organised that people wouldn't pick it up and interact with them. This meant that the idea didn't work, so the bowl form was created as a way of encouraging people to take from it and read. This did work in that sense, however it was too literal and didn't work to my aims, it was awkward and I think the plinth presentation is to be avoided completely, especially with something like this. Another problem with this work is that the sentences are unedited and some of them weren't right as they were closed sentences and didn't leave much to the audience to interpret. So something new needs to be considered.
During thinking about this I had a discussion in the studio with some others that were around. We discussed this throwaway idea that maybe I could create a tear and take sheet for people to take sentences, this does create a 'i'm here to take' approach, however this encourages people to see and read the sentences before hand, meaning that they make a conscious decision to decide what to take if they choose to take. Also this may work better around the college rather than in an exhibition space.
Same idea as below, but different content.
The next idea went back to how I previously typed the words on A5 sheet, however avoiding a plinth and piling them up. It needed a different set up that would encourage people to find them rather than be in a obvious place that doesn't interest people so much, they simple just see it and walk on.
So came the idea of scattering them around the exhibition space as if they had already been seen and just dropped, I liked this idea, but maybe as an outcome rather than setting out to do so. So I thought about simply handing them out. But this brings me back to the same problem of them being obviously there. Then I thought about what can be handed out at an exhibition and hiding them in that.
If we produced exhibition handouts containing maps, people will take them as they want to know which is which work. By hiding them in this handout, people will take them without knowing, hiding them in plain sight. Only when they open them will they see the paper, and this starts a cycle of either dropping them as they don't see them and someone else trying to retrieve it or seeing it and wondering what it is. I like this idea, after further discussions, I decided to try this idea out, which means my next steps are to plan and make an exhibition leaflet.
