Year 13 BTEC National Diploma Art and Design: afternoon lesson re-enacting Gillian Wearing's work, Thursday 27th November 2008As part of Unit 59, Multi-Disciplinary work in Fine Art, students are developing approaches to Live Art exploring different methods of engaging with their audience, both on and off site. In Year 12 for Open evening November 2007, students undertook this work with the prospective students but we were keen to consider with them how the work would change out in the public domain in the schools locality at a junction including areas around shops such as Halfords, Staples, a barbers, bus stops, Tescos.
Posts which follow this entitled 'After Gillian Wearing' are the students recording of the experience.
Some background information:
Wearing’s work demonstrates a complex understanding of the alternately comic and tragic experiences of everyday life. She uses the techniques of documentary photography, film and television to frame the concerns, words and actions of ordinary people, often in everyday situations slightly and often subtly displaced in context. This repositioning creates an uneasy sense in the viewer - it forces us to question our preconceptions in face of the image Wearing presents to us. [Taken from British Council website ]
Thoughts we discussed prior to the re-enactments:
- Evaluating examples of Gillian Wearing's work
- Where? Who to ask, what to ask, how to frame the experience? Ask for email addresses?
- Watching the use of the site first, considering where to ask eg going into and/or out of the station? How does change of site affect responses?
- Short term public engagement, community, social, what are we learning?
- Spontaneous approach
- Strangers more honest than people you know?
- Passers by- transient community?
- Highlighting the human connection between us?
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