Shelters

Ed: Anyway...Im basically planning to spend the majority of my time making all these pop up shelters out of old material/waterproof stuff/ with Claire and another girl called Kirsty Jackman, who graduated camberwell's sculpture course a few years ago. The general idea behind it is based around the fact that the rest of the work is going to an extremely individual experience for the audience, e.g with the performance work it'l be down to where the person is standing, whether or not they can hear, if they get to use one of hazel's contraptions or not etc etc and also the film of it will be totally different to actually being at the event in the park.So the tent things are just going to be made very quickly, and hopefully i'll get to make around 10 or so, with tracey and the 1st years making loads more.They'l all be documented through photography and film (Jessamy???) but im not going to hang around and see if they are actually used or not, i'll just go back to them a few weeks later, and they could either have been a massive help to tramps, a nice place to sit or get out of the bad weather, the chance to steal loads of tarpaulin for anyone in need of it, or just a massive annoyance to the council (though ill make signs saying dont move,art, will be removed shorty) or totally unused and ignored. But basically it'l provide the chance for people to intereact with the work if they see fit (something that i know Phil is keen for people to do in his performance) and this could be a way of potentially encouraging them to do so if they happened to have seen one of the structures about. I'll also leave cards about the project at each site, dates of exhibition, further promotion etc.

I was going to recreate one of the shelters in the gallery space ( a hanging work, top half of one) so people could walk into it, one at a time, again playing with this whole idea of the individuals response to a certain piece of work, and thought of potentially using the canvas as a projection screen for either some of the photos/ film work??? think that'd help tie some of the ideas together a bit too.