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September 22 - November 24, 2012
STUDIO TIME IN CHARLESTON: Starting a city/village
- THE CAPITOL: Terry Hunt has told us that many groups will work on the Capitol. We decide to build it in five sections, five blanks. When put back together (or not), they will stand on a 5'X8' platform, 36" high.
- A NEIGHBORHOOD, Farish St: site of an abandoned renovation project; mix of rebuilt facades and dilapidated buildings and warehouses. A landmark restaurant still operates. We build 2 platforms supporting abandoned row houses on one side, commercial buildings in the process of renovation on the other, empty lots. Tony has asked us to accommodate for paintings representing the old Farish street.
- A SCHOOL with Operation Shoestring: Amber gives us a free hand. We build a façade (vague copy of historic Lanier High School), two workbenches and two "lockers". They hold up together as a unit but can be taken apart. Two ideas emerge from conversations: the Brick Idea, where we cut 200 wooden "bricks", 2X4x5, with which the students will line the facade of their school. The Batik Idea, where students will make school banners, batik them and show off their school.
- On each building/prop we will paint A LARGE BLANK NOTEBOOK-STYLE PAGE with horizontal blue lines and a red vertical line to the left. For notes/conversation/questions/stuff - Anger/Applauds/Safe Space
- HOW WE WORK AS VISUAL ARTISTS:
-- The MUSEUM: "We would like for you to give us some sort of visual that we can get in our minds".
-- JEMAGWGA: "This is something that is very difficult for us to do as we do not work from drawings. We develop drawings not of what we are going to do but from what we have been doing; a process very different from that used by architects or decorators. So what we would like to do is to have a meeting with your staff as soon as we are back in November, before the general meeting with partnering groups. We will install what we have done and explain how we have been going about it. How our creative process was following their own creative path . We will have parts of two or three buildings, a sample of how we wish to develop the creeks representation, which will allow us to appreciate the scale of the pieces, when placed in the garden. Our buildings are deconstructed in multi- open parts, thus allowing different settings and avoiding a "bird house" type representation. Working with space within, around and between has always been an important artistic concern for us. We will also present the techniques, exchanges, processes that will take place, different with each partnering group. There will be time for conversation and this will prevent misconceived ideas that drawings often carry."
- First two CREEKS, ribbons, woven with all manners of studio leftovers. Supported by low steel wire structures. An opportunity to weave pictures, and any recuperated material. We often asked passers-by to help in the weaving.
- On each building/prop we will paint A LARGE BLANK NOTEBOOK-STYLE PAGE with horizontal blue lines and a red vertical line to the left. For notes/conversation/questions/stuff - Anger/Applauds/Safe Space
- HOW WE WORK AS VISUAL ARTISTS:
-- The MUSEUM: "We would like for you to give us some sort of visual that we can get in our minds".
-- JEMAGWGA: "This is something that is very difficult for us to do as we do not work from drawings. We develop drawings not of what we are going to do but from what we have been doing; a process very different from that used by architects or decorators. So what we would like to do is to have a meeting with your staff as soon as we are back in November, before the general meeting with partnering groups. We will install what we have done and explain how we have been going about it. How our creative process was following their own creative path . We will have parts of two or three buildings, a sample of how we wish to develop the creeks representation, which will allow us to appreciate the scale of the pieces, when placed in the garden. Our buildings are deconstructed in multi- open parts, thus allowing different settings and avoiding a "bird house" type representation. Working with space within, around and between has always been an important artistic concern for us. We will also present the techniques, exchanges, processes that will take place, different with each partnering group. There will be time for conversation and this will prevent misconceived ideas that drawings often carry."
- First two CREEKS, ribbons, woven with all manners of studio leftovers. Supported by low steel wire structures. An opportunity to weave pictures, and any recuperated material. We often asked passers-by to help in the weaving.
