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Site Collaboration. Jess Ringer Summary/ Review
Overall, I feel that the exhibition could have been better, it didn’t turn out as well as I expected. I have never worked alongside other artists so it was a big task for me but I thoroughly enjoyed exchanging ideas and working as a team. We had planned for the vein coloured strings to go right round the block, splitting off down different paths and roads. This idea died on the day when we realised we hadn’t got anywhere near enough rope. Although we didn’t have enough of the string to go around, we still managed to portray what we intended; the breach between reality and fantasy. The reason we chose to do this is because my previous site task and exhibition works were all based on personal questions and truths within reality. Yet Celine’s previous artworks are mainly based on the wonders of non-fiction. The three different coloured pieces of string helped it to work as they each lead to different destinations. I liked the idea of the string going down the drain represented someone who dreams lower than they can achieve, whereas the pink string heading up the tree represents a dream that seems miles away but if you work hard enough you can get there. Finally, the blue string heading into the bushes through the fence represented the non-realistic dreams that are impossible to achieve. I think this idea linked it to everyone’s work well as Lou’s was about maps, which is there the path idea was taken from. The reasoning behind the skin coloured threads is due to the fact that Lou’s previous works were similar to veins, so we wanted to represent this.
Despite this idea, in the discussion we had whilst looking at the work some people pointed out their interest with how it’s on the university gates. One stated that to them, a student, it made them question the quality of the learning. Another said that its perfect for the time of year, its coming to the end of the teaching year and most people are going to be leaving the university and education soon and will be off to get jobs. The billboard will make them question that pathway that lies ahead of them. This altered my thinking towards the site project as it made me feel differently about it as I hadn’t thought about the timing in the year and I thought that if it was at the beginning of the year, would it be aimed at potential students and make them question whether they want to go to this university. One person even pointed out how the strings and paths reminded them of questionnaires from magazines that would determine your ‘fate’.
On a different note, I felt that the posters and map drawings didn’t work as they just looked randomly scattered around the site. This is partially due to the fact we ran out of string and could only concentrate on one corner and not round the whole block. However, I feel that even if we were to have done this, they would have still looked random as they were mostly all the same piece. I would have liked them to have lead you somewhere and have little ones that said things like “quicker”, “hurry” and “you’re too late”. I felt that communication within the group struggled towards the deadline and we all arrived having different ideas, but we had to make do with the string.
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Artist Influences for Site Collaboration. \Janaina Mello Landini/ -Jess
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Final Site Intervention Evaluation: Celine
In this last site project we worked as a group which was something I haven’t done in a long time so it was absolutely a challenge for us all. Our idea was to take inspiration from our previous site project, studio practice and combine our main ideas in some way. Jess wanted posters with questions, Lou liked lines and maps and I wanted it to be a trail to be followed in some way. We decided that we would follow strings coming out from a big poster with a question on it. The threads would be like roots coming out from a tree, which can be connected to what Lou did in her previous project. These strings went in different direction and depending on which one you followed you would get different questions to answers. We decided to choose skin coloured threads to represent veins (pink, purple, blue) also to connect to Lou’s interest in how maps, tree roots and veins look quite similar. To get a more fiction look at some parts of this project, because that is what my practise goes a lot around, we chose one questions to be about the idea of “It” (“Where did it run?”) which draws a line to my last site project where I had a trail of feathers that would show that something inhuman had been there.
When we got to the site after setting it up an hour before exhibition we found that some of the strings had been moved, like the threads that goes down the drain with the posters and the thread that goes inside the fence indicating that someone had actually followed the strings and been curious which was the whole idea of our project. I find this interesting because in a way that means that our idea worked, and our project was a success. Since it was outside of the gate of the university I think it worked well with the question because you automatically connected it to your education, your life and where you are headed. What probably could have been improved was to secure the posters a bit better because they kept falling down. Also it would have been interesting if we had more threads to cover more ground so they could go further apart.
The responses we got on the site was interesting as well. Some meant that it reminded them of a quiz from a magazine, one thought that the question “where did it run?” reminded her about the white rabbit and that it could represent yourself, another thought of it as the dreams and hopes you had as child and how we wonder where it had gone. One I also really liked was the ideas about the threads coming up from the other drain with no connection to the main question , they thought that it represented a dead end in life because it didn’t start from the main question, and since it didn’t start by anything it would not end with anything either.
- Celine Wergeland
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Site Collaboration - Louise’s View
Working with Jess and Celine almost became second nature. With sharing individual ideas for our own projects, it was easy to converse in the site sessions about development and ideas for the site intervention. Our early tasks became difficult for me as i lacked inspiration from the site, but seeing Jess and celine’s helped me out in creating something.
Throughout our final intervention, the ideas came easily to us and if any disagreements were made they were met with constructive criticism or constructive changes that would provide that individual with support and potentially development. The idea of a trail involving threads, monster parts (which got swapped out for notes), posters and a banner includes every member of the groups practice; Jess used her original font and phrases to create a banner, Celine used her clay figures to add a fantastical side and I created posters to go hidden along the trail that involved my sign that I created from a map of the area and combined Jess’ text with phrases that we both looked through as part of the collaboration. It was easily talked about in a single session to figure out the rough placement and ending of the trails. Celine enjoyed the idea of having multiple endings and potential hidden stories or diary entries that you could find along the way.
When it came to the intervention to be placed, we got permission from the university to put up a banner, which ideally was our main attraction to the piece; that piece would then lead onto the trail that the viewer would follow. The three of us should of accounted for the weather. We had some trouble with putting it up since that day the wind was quite strong, which was something we did not account for, but we used both tape and tied string around the fence in an attempt to keep it in place until the afternoon. we used a corner, turning out of the university entrance and ended with a string down two drains and one in a small gap in a fence, sticking a poster inside the space like a secret hiding place. Down the drains, we wrote small notes such as ‘help me’ and ‘did you see that?’ and attached them to the longer strands that lead back to the banner at the start of the trail. I think that we could of had the threads on the ground, but because of the windy weather we had to attach them to the fence going down the road to assure they would not fly out of place when we were not at the site. But overall, I think the site turned out to be an interesting space that a mystery had seemed to of taken place in, making an impact on anybody walking past.
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Site Installation: The Important Question.
For the site intervention I decided to do a newspaper-looking page that I put outside the Co-Operative in the newspaper stand. I made this and filled in the lettering with thick black pen. However, from far away you can’t tell that it is hand written. I decided on this gothic calligraphy font for the lettering as I found it appealing and it reminded me of the old newspaper letters.
Personally, I am happy with the outcome, how the piece looked and the feedback I got from my peers. The fact it said “are you ok” worked well, however it would have worked better if I had done a question mark at the end. The only reason I didn’t was because I wasn’t sure how to do a gothic calligraphy style question mark.
I chose it to say are you ok as it is simple and therefore people of all ages can read it, relate to it and ask themselves this question. This idea was influenced by Mark Titchner who does billboards with simple text on, I find these very powerful due to their simplicity.
One of my ideas for this subject, object grid was to do the journey through life and how certain events can affect us both physically and mentally.
The real newspaper on the opposing side also fits in with this idea as it’s about a young girl whose boyfriend recently left her, and she committed suicide. I didn’t know this before the exhibition, one of my peers told me and I feel this changed how the question came across as it made it more serious and powerful.
-Jess Ringer
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Site project review: «Feather trail»
I had an idea about how to do the task we had been given and how to connect it to my studio preactise. Since my practice is around the thin line between reality and fiction I wanted to see how I could play around with that. I decided to make the viewers think that something has been there instead of showing, whatever it was, directly to them. That way the “thing” became more real. The way I connected the site project to my studio practice was by leaving a trail of red feathers from the creatures that I am making in my studio practise it would look like they came out of the forest stole something to eat and then disappeared again. I wanted the feather trail to show this story by putting out little hints like: feathers in a bin, on the fence, outside Co-op where I put some pieces from a pretzel together with some red feathers. It was interesting to see the reaction of the random people walking past it looking really confused about why there is red feathers everywhere. I found this project quite successful even though each person found their own story about how the feather trail came to be and I think that is the beauty of it. I think my favourite story about the trail was that there was a drunk girl with a feather jacket walking from the club, going into co-op, buying a pretzel and eating it on the ground outside. The work in itself evolved, and I really liked that it had a sense of flexibility.
- Celine Wergeland
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I did a study of this photo in oil paint. I exaggerated the different marks people made as they passed, whether they were walking, cycling or driving.
-Jess Ringer
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Group Project
One of the things that we found interesting about the site was not the house inn itself but how so many people walk past it daily without even giving it a second look. we decided to find a way to record how many people that actally walk past it in an hour from 11am-12am Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. To get the actuall number of not only people but all vehicles too. This really makes you think about how somthing so huge and creepy looking house can just dissapear from the publics eye.
Tuesday:
People -> 59 vehicles -> 310
Wednesday:
People -> 50 vehicles -> 360
Thursday:
People -> 48 vehicles -> 342
- Celine Wergeland
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10.00 am
Parking
The fact there is a parking sign right outside this ‘abandoned’ house indicates that it is a busy site and that people pass everyday, not only by foot. this is evident in the lower of the two photos as many footprints, car tracks and bicycle tracks are evident.
-Jess Ringer
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6.00 am
I just managed to catch the moment as the sun shone over the site, melting the snow, causing the footprints to disappear.
I thin kit is interesting how everybody/thing leaves a mark as they pass. On any ‘normal Bristish day’ you would not be able to record everybody who passes as they wouldn't usually leave behind a mark. Especially as when I passed by earlier, I was the first to make my mark on the fresh snow. On my way back from the city I find the snow on the path is melting away and there are loads of footprints and paw prints since I passed only an hour ago. This is no surprise due to the fact there are lots of houses on this road, with a Co-op only two minutes away it gets quite busy.
Olafur Eliasson:
These photos remind me of Olafur Elliasson due to the fact I have caught the moment the sun has hit the buildings around our site and how the light hits everything. Elliasson did an installation called ‘Your Sun Machine’ where There was a circular hole in the roof which allowed the sunlight to shine into the empty room where viewers would stand. The sun would travel across the room depending on time. The concept of time related to one of our subjects, I find the moment of time very intriguing as it can be very precise. For example a full moon occurs around every month and a solar eclipse is extremely rare. This beam of light became his focal point.
-Jess Ringer
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5.00 am
As you can see the house is well hidden, behind the mist of trees and branches.
-Jess Ringer
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