Thought I'd post below some text from the catalogue that we had outside - mainly for people who were being exposed to our work for the first time. As we were inside doing whatever it was we were doing for the duration of the night we don't have any documentation shots to post but if anyone out there took any feel free to email us (contact details in our profiles) and we'll stick some up.
Also thought to add if anyone is interested in our future projects send us your email addresses and we'll keep you posted.
Site Fiction 3rd October 2008
Hello,
Welcome to Site Fiction – our evolving visual playground. Here you join us for our final performance/ installation/ action in the former Arcane Bookshop. Over the past three weeks we have inhabited the shop front in an attempt to activate a disused space and engage with a potential audience. Working in such a public space, not traditionally considered as an art space, has presented us with a number of restrictions or challenges that has shaped and directed our project.
The first and foremost being no public access to the space. The glass barrier divides us from
the street, distancing working space from viewer in a kind of visual, staged environment. As events can only be viewed from the street, the street must become the ideal viewing location. It is no longer a case of inviting an audience in to see/experience something rather it is an experiment in alternate means of viewing, a kind of ‘art as public spectacle.’
and public it is. The bookshop exists as one single room. There is no backroom in which things
wanting to remain unseen can be pushed. Everything that goes into/ happens in the space remains visible at all times. No behind the scenes.
A further challenge presented itself in the literal physicality of the shop front. We must
work with and around the existing architecture: the unreachable height of the ceiling, the random nails and hooks in the walls, the uncontrollable light from the street. Our actions tonight reflects how we have found ourselves moving in the space working with the challenges the shop presents us with whether it be teetering atop a ladder or pressed against the glass in an attempt for an immediate engagement out to the street.
Working within these conditions we have committed to changing the space each day, creating a new visual experience for dialogue. As a kind of cumulative, dialogic and open ended
process the works have resulted as a kind of negotiation of these restrictions along with the experience of being within the space.
An interstitial art process in an interstitial space
The Arcane bookshop holds a place in the collective memory of Perth. A place which one could find unusual texts. something rare to Perth. secret. mysterious. obscure. We find it fitting to present this mini publication in spirit of the old arcane- the narrative continues. For further reading and/or to comment please visit our blog,
Inter collective
Anna Cocks ∙ Claire Krouzecky ∙ Laura Hindmarsh
This is the third project Laura, Claire and Anna have done together, but the first time under the name inter collective.
Forming a collective was important for us in acknowledging the working relationship we have developed over the last year and bringing a sense of cohesion to the work we have done. It has also allowed us to see beyond art school and to see the possibility of expanding a private practice into a larger community.
The name inter collective relates to what we are interested in doing in many ways. Primarily, though, it is about communication which is mutual or reciprocal. We are not interested in presenting, but with engaging and interacting. Inter suggests the space between, the relationship itself, which is established from both sides as a dialogue.
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