I think you might find it interesting to see the programme, 'Imagine' from Monday night, 31st Oct, on iPlayer looking at Grayson Perry and the making of his show at the British Museum, Homage to the Unknown Craftsmen. He made a proposal to look at certain objects based on his own interests and to make works giving credit and acknowledgement to those works made by anonymous crafts people over the centuries. Of course the curators welcomed him in and made it easy for him to choose about 170 objects among their 80.000 objects on show, 8 million in storage! A lot easier than it will be for us. What was interesting was that in some instances, even some of the Museum staff were not sure which pieces were by him and which pieces were historical, although of course he also had a lot of obvious and almost cartoon responses on show, together with his crazy motor bike.
Unfortunately I think we have been double pre-empted in our mission. The University of the Arts students are doing a special show at the British Museum on Friday night 11th based on similar ideas, oh dear! Shall we go?
Yes I think we should go on the 11th
ReplyDeleteDont think one should ever worry about what others are doing
lets just do the thing we are doing well! x
I think Neda and I agreed we would go on the 8th.
ReplyDeleteI was going to do a new post on the tutorial and our discussions afterwards but I still don't seem to be able to initiate a blog even though I am all signed in etc. Any ideas?
I really liked the exhibition, I think approaching objects in the collection from different angels gives it a fresh look and it makes you think - i liked his questioning of the "real" vs. copied - is the power of the object inherent or is given?
ReplyDeleteProvenance as a title, great!
ReplyDeleteArtangel, Blythe House, fantastic but an enormous and complex project. What I liked best was the installation 'in situ', at the store. It's an idea we can go with plus perhaps a potential catalogue.
Kate and I now both have the 'Oriental Visions' books so hopefully we will have initial lists of objects of special interest.
Looking forward to the meeting with you all and Raimi tomorrow.
Coral