Far from being just an exhibition, How We Live will be the culmination of a lengthy period of experimentation and collaboration between four artists who share an underlying connection of sustainable working practices and methodologies. HWL goes to either extreme of the spectrum. Taking as it's starting points the nature of collective activity and individual practice an unusual body of work will be formed at the confluence of these areas of work. Four people working with each others strengths and weaknesses will realise new work that may take the individual out of their comfort zone.
In being so multi directed, the nature of the exhibition rides upon the concept of its very happening, its build up, duration, aftermath and all-encompassing structure. What makes this work is the reliance that each artist has on the other, and the integrity of their own knowledge base. Thus by emalgamating individual formulae there is a collected force that strengthens particular elements to ascertain others within an artistic organism. A sort of osmosis happens as layered influences imbue the original creating a new built from fragments of each other. The result, which may remain elusive even after the end point, will exemplify a course of collaborative production combining four practices that will repeatedly fold / unfold around themselves and each other as threads of individual practice are connected.
Through the act of openess and the collaborative spirit that has emerged partly as a by product of the internet interaction between the four artists, an enriching development of new skills is being established. Over the coming months we will be exploring ideas surrounding how we live on a day to day basis and where we take ourselves when we step outside of our normal patterns of behaviour and daily routine. Ultimately HWL is about opposites: the individual - the group, the repetitive - the different, strength - weakness, agreement - disagreement.
SD, BD, EJ, RT. May 2010
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
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