so after finding our much desired ‘site’ we sat down to nut out what we were actually interested in using the space for and how we could summarise and clearly articulate this in a proposal to EPRA.
We initially discussed that the project could follow one of two paths the later of which has formed the base of the Site Fiction project.
1. we open up the space creating an immersive environment which demands the presence and possible participation of the viewer.
or 2. we shut ourselves off from the outside (mainly due to the issue of public liability) creating a kind of visual , staged environment using the large windows as a kind of screen separating our working space from that of the viewer.
In previous collaboration projects including Art Live-In (Fremantle street residency) and Surban Projections our work has been centered around actively engaging an audience, it became a kind of ‘art as social intervention’ in a specific local environment. We saw the unique location of the Arcane as differing from these previous projects as it is a much more public space. Here it is not a case of inviting an audience in to see/experience something rather it is ‘art as public spectacle.’
This is a snippet of our proposal to EPRA
‘We would like to propose to use 214 (only later we realised it is actually 212) William St, the former Arcane Bookshop, for a short time period in which we would use the space as a working, collaborative installation based on the theme of creating a “site fiction”. The project will also involve a performative element through the public viewing condition provided by the shop front as the project evolves over time…There would be no public access into the space with the aim of making the street the ideal viewing location.'
It was also at this point which we discussed the idea of the work taking the form of a blog. As we are attempting to explore alternate ways of participation and engagement with art we thought a blog would provide a means by which people could respond to the work as it progresses and in which we can express the ideas we are working with. In experimenting in breaking down the conventional distinction between artist, work and audience we are hoping to allow an audience to ‘speak back’, this very blog can create a kind of forum for conversation and interaction which in turn is part of the work itself.
We are excited to be able to create something visually engaging in a dead, public space but part of the project in itself is to see if there is an audience and a response to this kind of work in Perth. The project can be seen as a comment on the kind of social and even economic process of art making in Perth. Social through breaking out of the isolated, studio based practice of a solo artist through collaboration and economic in attempting to access free or at lest affordable spaces traditionally not associated with viewing or making art.
We initially discussed that the project could follow one of two paths the later of which has formed the base of the Site Fiction project.
1. we open up the space creating an immersive environment which demands the presence and possible participation of the viewer.
or 2. we shut ourselves off from the outside (mainly due to the issue of public liability) creating a kind of visual , staged environment using the large windows as a kind of screen separating our working space from that of the viewer.
In previous collaboration projects including Art Live-In (Fremantle street residency) and Surban Projections our work has been centered around actively engaging an audience, it became a kind of ‘art as social intervention’ in a specific local environment. We saw the unique location of the Arcane as differing from these previous projects as it is a much more public space. Here it is not a case of inviting an audience in to see/experience something rather it is ‘art as public spectacle.’
This is a snippet of our proposal to EPRA
‘We would like to propose to use 214 (only later we realised it is actually 212) William St, the former Arcane Bookshop, for a short time period in which we would use the space as a working, collaborative installation based on the theme of creating a “site fiction”. The project will also involve a performative element through the public viewing condition provided by the shop front as the project evolves over time…There would be no public access into the space with the aim of making the street the ideal viewing location.'
It was also at this point which we discussed the idea of the work taking the form of a blog. As we are attempting to explore alternate ways of participation and engagement with art we thought a blog would provide a means by which people could respond to the work as it progresses and in which we can express the ideas we are working with. In experimenting in breaking down the conventional distinction between artist, work and audience we are hoping to allow an audience to ‘speak back’, this very blog can create a kind of forum for conversation and interaction which in turn is part of the work itself.
We are excited to be able to create something visually engaging in a dead, public space but part of the project in itself is to see if there is an audience and a response to this kind of work in Perth. The project can be seen as a comment on the kind of social and even economic process of art making in Perth. Social through breaking out of the isolated, studio based practice of a solo artist through collaboration and economic in attempting to access free or at lest affordable spaces traditionally not associated with viewing or making art.
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