As a follow up activity, and teaching tool for all those who have shows after you, I need all of you to create a blog post that wraps up the entire experience of your exhibitions. I’ve created leading questions that I’d like you to answer with detailed description. Please don’t think of this as busy work, but rather as an informative teaching tool of your experience that will help guide the future artists of DRHSART.
Create a blog post that thoroughly addresses the following questions, and please include a few high quality photos from the opening or of the work in the gallery, and also include a video of any commercials you may have made to promote the show. It would also be helpful to include the exhibition card design.
1. How has your perspective about art changed throughout the process of organizing your own exhibition?
The show forced me to think about environment or the “vibe” I want encasing my work. It was very importance to Torrance and me that work felt constant with the space. We didn’t want it to feel like we just put our work up in a white hallway. In our work we create a certain context that the subjects live in and now we want to viewers of the work to be in that same space. We had to think about sound and lighting which I think a lot of people don’t consider but it really brought our show together. It brought it to the next level.
2. What would you do differently if you had the opportunity to do it over?
Maybe get more food because we ran out of everything within the first ten minutes but other than that, nothing. Torrance and I had two weeks to do basically everything and there were a few points where I got overwhelmed but I don’t think anything could have prevented that. I put together the best show I could. Every decision I made was intentional and I really did love what we created.
3. If you had unlimited time and resources, what else would you have done to complete
your show?
I would paint over the black and red wall in the art hall. It ALMOST ruined the atmosphere and was a thorn in my side (and Torrance’s) through the entire process.
I would get more of the chiffon sheets Torrance provided and hang them on the ceiling.
I would replace the warm yellow light bulbs with a cooler toned bulb.
I would have liked to have a small screening room where we could recreate our commercial shoot because the process was very interesting. We went out on a Sunday and filmed a bunch of clips of us in this construction zone and then we edited it together and made it look distorted and black and white. Then we projected the short form onto our faces and bodies. We filmed that and added Teen Suicide’s All The Thing I Used To DO With People Pt.2 in the background for the final product.
I think it would be cool If instead of walking around our show we stood in a separate dark room and, on loop, projected the short film onto ourselves with the music playing. Basically just like the commercial but a live viewing of it. Or maybe even hired people to stand there for us. Kind of like Marina Abramović does in with her performance art in gallery showings.
4. What was the overall value of this experience for you?
Incredible. The feeling of having your own senior show after seeing so many others have theirs is an eye opening experience. I was lucky enough to work with someone who was 1) extremely talented 2) one of best friends and 3) someone who shared the same conceptual interests with me & was willing to take the shows “message” very seriously.
5. How could this process be enhanced for future Art 5 students?
Covering the work before the show like Torrance and I did. It creates a lot more interest and ive nevr seen anyone do that before.
6. What means did you use to promote your show, and how might you have promoted the show even better?
Like I said before we made a very eye catching commercial, very loud and strange. It got people talking. I wish we had the time to make posters. We had a lot of great poster ideas (basically the truisms we wrote on the paper covering our pieces edited on top of Torrance’s photos). We also made way too many postcards but I’m glad we had them.
7. How do you feel about the labeling system you used for the work on display?
It was fine, it could have been better if I used thicker paper but I think that’s one detail that can be overlooked if you have as little time as Torrance and I had.
8. What setbacks did you have to face, and what could have been done to remedy them?
Time, but there was nothing we could do because Emma’s show was two weeks before ours and we only had 2 real days to work on the show the week of the show (due to me being gone and election day).
One bit of advice I think might be helpful is staying after school the night of the show. The Thursday before our show Torrance and I stayed a school until 9pm setting up, brainstorming and listening to music. It was so chill and our ideas were so organic, that’s when our vision really came together. When we got the chance to be alone with one and other in the space with no pressure or distractions. I think everyone having a show should do that. It helped drastically.
Thank you for taking the time to wrap up your experience and for posting it on your blog for others to use as guidance.
Create a blog post that thoroughly addresses the following questions, and please include a few high quality photos from the opening or of the work in the gallery, and also include a video of any commercials you may have made to promote the show. It would also be helpful to include the exhibition card design.
1. How has your perspective about art changed throughout the process of organizing your own exhibition?
The show forced me to think about environment or the “vibe” I want encasing my work. It was very importance to Torrance and me that work felt constant with the space. We didn’t want it to feel like we just put our work up in a white hallway. In our work we create a certain context that the subjects live in and now we want to viewers of the work to be in that same space. We had to think about sound and lighting which I think a lot of people don’t consider but it really brought our show together. It brought it to the next level.
2. What would you do differently if you had the opportunity to do it over?
Maybe get more food because we ran out of everything within the first ten minutes but other than that, nothing. Torrance and I had two weeks to do basically everything and there were a few points where I got overwhelmed but I don’t think anything could have prevented that. I put together the best show I could. Every decision I made was intentional and I really did love what we created.
3. If you had unlimited time and resources, what else would you have done to complete
your show?
I would paint over the black and red wall in the art hall. It ALMOST ruined the atmosphere and was a thorn in my side (and Torrance’s) through the entire process.
I would get more of the chiffon sheets Torrance provided and hang them on the ceiling.
I would replace the warm yellow light bulbs with a cooler toned bulb.
I would have liked to have a small screening room where we could recreate our commercial shoot because the process was very interesting. We went out on a Sunday and filmed a bunch of clips of us in this construction zone and then we edited it together and made it look distorted and black and white. Then we projected the short form onto our faces and bodies. We filmed that and added Teen Suicide’s All The Thing I Used To DO With People Pt.2 in the background for the final product.
I think it would be cool If instead of walking around our show we stood in a separate dark room and, on loop, projected the short film onto ourselves with the music playing. Basically just like the commercial but a live viewing of it. Or maybe even hired people to stand there for us. Kind of like Marina Abramović does in with her performance art in gallery showings.
4. What was the overall value of this experience for you?
Incredible. The feeling of having your own senior show after seeing so many others have theirs is an eye opening experience. I was lucky enough to work with someone who was 1) extremely talented 2) one of best friends and 3) someone who shared the same conceptual interests with me & was willing to take the shows “message” very seriously.
5. How could this process be enhanced for future Art 5 students?
Covering the work before the show like Torrance and I did. It creates a lot more interest and ive nevr seen anyone do that before.
6. What means did you use to promote your show, and how might you have promoted the show even better?
Like I said before we made a very eye catching commercial, very loud and strange. It got people talking. I wish we had the time to make posters. We had a lot of great poster ideas (basically the truisms we wrote on the paper covering our pieces edited on top of Torrance’s photos). We also made way too many postcards but I’m glad we had them.
7. How do you feel about the labeling system you used for the work on display?
It was fine, it could have been better if I used thicker paper but I think that’s one detail that can be overlooked if you have as little time as Torrance and I had.
8. What setbacks did you have to face, and what could have been done to remedy them?
Time, but there was nothing we could do because Emma’s show was two weeks before ours and we only had 2 real days to work on the show the week of the show (due to me being gone and election day).
One bit of advice I think might be helpful is staying after school the night of the show. The Thursday before our show Torrance and I stayed a school until 9pm setting up, brainstorming and listening to music. It was so chill and our ideas were so organic, that’s when our vision really came together. When we got the chance to be alone with one and other in the space with no pressure or distractions. I think everyone having a show should do that. It helped drastically.
Thank you for taking the time to wrap up your experience and for posting it on your blog for others to use as guidance.
