Monday, April 2, 2012

Collaborative Tourism


I have been thinking about the upcoming projects that revolve around collaborations planned for Colorado in May.
Just recently, my studio collective was invited to create a window display at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. A task that was challenging not only in its spacial property (9' x 14' x 2' space plus impossible scheduling issues) but the fact that we were not a "collective" and our work was vastly different from each others. It is hard enough to find an individual artistic voice, let alone a uniting choral tone among a group. This experience had me thinking about different ways of conducting a setting where we would be able to create a context as individuals, while still creating a cohesive idea about our work together and it's relationship to Steamboat Spring, CO.
One setting that seemed both applicable and ripe in possibility was the idea of a "Tourism Desk". You know when you walk into a building that is used for a few purposes, there is a table where people post job adds, business cards, event listings, brochures and pamphlets etc. This space is a setting for a cacophony of incongruous information. Being that our work processes are not related and coming from various areas of the U.S., this table might allow us to build a bit of a drawing board. Kate, maybe you can include a mix tape or the "Pray for Rain" recording. Copies of reading or printed brochures about our previous work? Park, maybe photo copies of pieces from your previous show?
I see it as a wall, with large prints that look like posters and/or the Neon. Below that there will be a bevy of paper goods that can be about a past work or present collaboration context. Maybe they are each on sale for $1. See model above.

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