3 May 
Transition tutorial with Eric Rosoman, Offiste Curator for The City Gallery, Leicester.
This was an opportunity for the artists involved in Transition exhibition to receive feedback from a professional artist and curator. Discussions regarding the artist practice and curation were initiated and artists were able to discuss their ideas and motives in producing the artwork.
1 May 2007
Transition set up and curation
My Experience of curation
Working with another MA Fine Art student I co-curated the exhibition and installed my own practice for the show. I found organising and curating the show an exciting and challenging task. At times there were conflict between other artists and the curators, however Cat and I were open to dicussion and new ideas but we had to make decsions that would benefit the group show as a whole. I did find the mix as curator and practitioner difficult at times, and if I were to curate an exhibition again I wouldn’t include my own practice, as I felt this was at times distracting.
Transition set up and curation
My Experience of curation
Working with another MA Fine Art student I co-curated the exhibition and installed my own practice for the show. I found organising and curating the show an exciting and challenging task. At times there were conflict between other artists and the curators, however Cat and I were open to dicussion and new ideas but we had to make decsions that would benefit the group show as a whole. I did find the mix as curator and practitioner difficult at times, and if I were to curate an exhibition again I wouldn’t include my own practice, as I felt this was at times distracting.
April 2007
Press Release
Transition
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
1 May - 5 May 2007
PREVIEW 1st May 6pm – 8pm
Transition is the third of five exhibitions at the Surface Gallery as part of Rules of the Game. The exhibition showcases the work of 9 MA visual Art Students from Nottingham Trent University.
The exhibition examines the notion of play as a form of subversion and social critique through role, transition and creative appropriation. Through sonic washing machines to ‘Sandrea gets a date’ this presents a series of games, some sinister and some fun.
Transition features animations, visual projections, lenticular photography, slide shows, video installations and interactive game playing. Each artist has individually responded to the theme of transition in diverse and alterative ways.The private view night will reveal a whole host of audience interactive games giving the viewer an involvement of play, by creating music on the ‘sonic washing machine’, becoming the subject of an artist work or playing a dating board game with five other gallery visitors.
Press Release
Transition
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
1 May - 5 May 2007
PREVIEW 1st May 6pm – 8pm
Transition is the third of five exhibitions at the Surface Gallery as part of Rules of the Game. The exhibition showcases the work of 9 MA visual Art Students from Nottingham Trent University.
The exhibition examines the notion of play as a form of subversion and social critique through role, transition and creative appropriation. Through sonic washing machines to ‘Sandrea gets a date’ this presents a series of games, some sinister and some fun.
Transition features animations, visual projections, lenticular photography, slide shows, video installations and interactive game playing. Each artist has individually responded to the theme of transition in diverse and alterative ways.The private view night will reveal a whole host of audience interactive games giving the viewer an involvement of play, by creating music on the ‘sonic washing machine’, becoming the subject of an artist work or playing a dating board game with five other gallery visitors.
Marketing for Transition Exhibition
The curators made an effort to advertise the show by sending off the above press release and images of the artists work.
The curators made an effort to advertise the show by sending off the above press release and images of the artists work.
The exhibition was advertised in the Nottinghamshire Today monthly magazine, The Leftlion Website (see the link to the right) and the Metro.
Surface Gallery Rules of The Game invite
April 2007
Surface Gallery Hand out
Transition 1 – 5 May
Nine MA visual artists from Nottingham Trent University have been selected by curators Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston in response to the theme of transition. ‘Transition’ meaning to change and evolve is used in the exhibition to express the notion of making and breaking rules that present the viewer with a series of ominous and amusing games.
Owen Baxter
Sonic Washing Machine
Owen Baxter explores making sonic art using interactive technology. Recorded sound of his washing machine is transformed into a virtual instrument that can be played and synthetically altered using different control devices, producing original compositions that sound interesting and fun to play.
Joon Kwon
Her Game
This animation examines the process of a power game played between a school student and a strict school system. The character overcomes the obstacles that have stood in her way and we witness her changing from victim to winner.
Tetsuya Fukushima
Untitled
He strives to create imaginary space using his memories and dreams emphasizing mood and atmosphere by exaggerating shapes and colours. In this exhibition paintings are projected on the wall to represent the transitional processes from real to unreal and convey an atmosphere that emphases a sense of fading presence.
Soo Kwon
How Do I Look?
Soo plays with the audience’s perception of her by using herself as a vehicle to project alter egos, which portray female domesticated stereotypes.
Cat Preston
Awaiting Transition -Consciousness Continued
Cat Preston uses process art as an exploration into the evolving of arrangements and metamorphoses, transformations and changes of state. In this piece the work is given away to the audience, disrupting the concrete understanding and becoming a personal perception, leaving only a trace of the process behind.
Sandrea Simons
Sandrea Gets a Date
The rules of the dating game are all apparent to Simons who is constantly updating her views on as an artist and a single woman. ‘Sandrea Gets a Date’ is created in favour of the artist; she wins a date every time and presents the player with the same conclusion.
Joe Wong
Untitled
The lenticular photographs continuously change as the viewers move around creating a sense of playful illusion. Wong wants the viewer to determine their own experience based on where they chose to stand or move.
Lucy Stevens
Spy hole
Lucy Stevens is an ‘experiential’ artist, as the title suggests she wants the viewer to experience rather than observe the artwork. Spy hole uses CCTV cameras and monitors as a vehicle to explore the fear and pleasure in watching and being watched.
Leif Arwen Gifford
Transition into Outer Space
Her practise incorporates the exploration of dualism, dichotomies, contradictions, dreamy romanticism, positive nihilism and sci-fi. A short animation with an original soundtrack, a transition between a sci fi future and an imagined reality.
Surface Gallery Hand out
Transition 1 – 5 May
Nine MA visual artists from Nottingham Trent University have been selected by curators Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston in response to the theme of transition. ‘Transition’ meaning to change and evolve is used in the exhibition to express the notion of making and breaking rules that present the viewer with a series of ominous and amusing games.
Owen Baxter
Sonic Washing Machine
Owen Baxter explores making sonic art using interactive technology. Recorded sound of his washing machine is transformed into a virtual instrument that can be played and synthetically altered using different control devices, producing original compositions that sound interesting and fun to play.
Joon Kwon
Her Game
This animation examines the process of a power game played between a school student and a strict school system. The character overcomes the obstacles that have stood in her way and we witness her changing from victim to winner.
Tetsuya Fukushima
Untitled
He strives to create imaginary space using his memories and dreams emphasizing mood and atmosphere by exaggerating shapes and colours. In this exhibition paintings are projected on the wall to represent the transitional processes from real to unreal and convey an atmosphere that emphases a sense of fading presence.
Soo Kwon
How Do I Look?
Soo plays with the audience’s perception of her by using herself as a vehicle to project alter egos, which portray female domesticated stereotypes.
Cat Preston
Awaiting Transition -Consciousness Continued
Cat Preston uses process art as an exploration into the evolving of arrangements and metamorphoses, transformations and changes of state. In this piece the work is given away to the audience, disrupting the concrete understanding and becoming a personal perception, leaving only a trace of the process behind.
Sandrea Simons
Sandrea Gets a Date
The rules of the dating game are all apparent to Simons who is constantly updating her views on as an artist and a single woman. ‘Sandrea Gets a Date’ is created in favour of the artist; she wins a date every time and presents the player with the same conclusion.
Joe Wong
Untitled
The lenticular photographs continuously change as the viewers move around creating a sense of playful illusion. Wong wants the viewer to determine their own experience based on where they chose to stand or move.
Lucy Stevens
Spy hole
Lucy Stevens is an ‘experiential’ artist, as the title suggests she wants the viewer to experience rather than observe the artwork. Spy hole uses CCTV cameras and monitors as a vehicle to explore the fear and pleasure in watching and being watched.
Leif Arwen Gifford
Transition into Outer Space
Her practise incorporates the exploration of dualism, dichotomies, contradictions, dreamy romanticism, positive nihilism and sci-fi. A short animation with an original soundtrack, a transition between a sci fi future and an imagined reality.
4/4/07
Surface Gallery meeting
We discussed the progress of how the exhibition was coming along in terms of the artwork, statements, floor plan, technical requirements and the gallery handout.
Many artists require digital technology, which can be loaned from the university but because the month of May is a busy time in terms of degree students needing equipment, we may have to bring our own or negotiate.
I have written a list of all the equipment we will need and emailed it to the head technician Fred. Both Cat and I will have to do a risk assessment for the equipment and the way in which it is set up in the Surface Gallery.
In terms of altering the gallery space, there isn’t going to be much change.
For my video installation I will need wooden walls adding in to the space, but apart from that the only wood work we may need are plinths, which can be brought and produced at the university or Phil the Surface Gallery technician will help to produce them.
We are writing a separate press release and sending this to all of our contacts, including the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottinghamshire Today and the Left Lion listings website.
Final Curatorial Statement
Art for change encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. Within art, change is cyclical, and one expects circumstances to recur, this formation can bring about notions of timelessness and repetitiveness.
In society changes take place due to gradual modifications in mindsets and beliefs or suddenly through revolutions. Societies, which do not follow this path, have changes thrust upon them by forces beyond their control.
Transition can be a familiar or unfamiliar situation amongst life, whether through the visual material or by audience interaction, disconcerting our categories of perception, moving the senses, or misinterpreting the rules. Evolving, manipulating and promoting the avenue of change, either functional or non-functional. Change is random, lacking direction or arrangement leading to unpredictable outcomes.
Surface Gallery meeting
We discussed the progress of how the exhibition was coming along in terms of the artwork, statements, floor plan, technical requirements and the gallery handout.
Many artists require digital technology, which can be loaned from the university but because the month of May is a busy time in terms of degree students needing equipment, we may have to bring our own or negotiate.
I have written a list of all the equipment we will need and emailed it to the head technician Fred. Both Cat and I will have to do a risk assessment for the equipment and the way in which it is set up in the Surface Gallery.
In terms of altering the gallery space, there isn’t going to be much change.
For my video installation I will need wooden walls adding in to the space, but apart from that the only wood work we may need are plinths, which can be brought and produced at the university or Phil the Surface Gallery technician will help to produce them.
We are writing a separate press release and sending this to all of our contacts, including the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottinghamshire Today and the Left Lion listings website.
Final Curatorial Statement
Art for change encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. Within art, change is cyclical, and one expects circumstances to recur, this formation can bring about notions of timelessness and repetitiveness.
In society changes take place due to gradual modifications in mindsets and beliefs or suddenly through revolutions. Societies, which do not follow this path, have changes thrust upon them by forces beyond their control.
Transition can be a familiar or unfamiliar situation amongst life, whether through the visual material or by audience interaction, disconcerting our categories of perception, moving the senses, or misinterpreting the rules. Evolving, manipulating and promoting the avenue of change, either functional or non-functional. Change is random, lacking direction or arrangement leading to unpredictable outcomes.
23/3/07
The Surface Gallery Meeting
We discussed the floor plan for Transition and the artists involved.
The Surface Gallery wanted to know where each individual artists work was going to be placed in the gallery.
Cat and I had been to look at the gallery space to decide where to position the artwork. We were initially going to group the artwork under sub headings relating to the theme of Transition, however, the work was so diverse that it could have come under a number of headings.
We felt that we wanted to show the artworks as individual pieces relating to the larger theme of Transition. We focused more on where we felt the work would fit appropriately within the gallery environment.
The Surface Gallery Meeting
We discussed the floor plan for Transition and the artists involved.
The Surface Gallery wanted to know where each individual artists work was going to be placed in the gallery.
Cat and I had been to look at the gallery space to decide where to position the artwork. We were initially going to group the artwork under sub headings relating to the theme of Transition, however, the work was so diverse that it could have come under a number of headings.
We felt that we wanted to show the artworks as individual pieces relating to the larger theme of Transition. We focused more on where we felt the work would fit appropriately within the gallery environment.
7/3/07
Rules of the Game submission:
I was delighted and surprised when I received an email from Emma Cocker congratulating Cat and I that our submission (now titled Transition and not The Upshot)- we felt Transition was more suitable to the range of work within the show. Our week is scheduled for 1- 5 May 2007.
Curatorial Submission
Call for submissions on the theme of Play adopting the idea of Emma Cocker’s Rules of the Game curatorial statement.
MA Visual Art students Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston are proposing to curate a one-week group exhibition as part of the Rules of the Game exhibition taking place at The Surface Gallery between the end of April and the beginning of May 2007 (exact dates to be confirmed).
We are asking ALL MA students for NEW artwork that addresses Emma Cocker’s statement‘Like art, play functions as an elusive concept that is both difficult to define and impossible to contain’.
Please submit a written proposal of 50 words with images if appropriate by 26 February 2007 to Bonington 132 located in MA Visual Arts.The theme of the exhibition is intended to be deliberately open, enabling diverse proposals from all MA courses.
Rules of the Game submission:
I was delighted and surprised when I received an email from Emma Cocker congratulating Cat and I that our submission (now titled Transition and not The Upshot)- we felt Transition was more suitable to the range of work within the show. Our week is scheduled for 1- 5 May 2007.
Curatorial Submission
Call for submissions on the theme of Play adopting the idea of Emma Cocker’s Rules of the Game curatorial statement.
MA Visual Art students Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston are proposing to curate a one-week group exhibition as part of the Rules of the Game exhibition taking place at The Surface Gallery between the end of April and the beginning of May 2007 (exact dates to be confirmed).
We are asking ALL MA students for NEW artwork that addresses Emma Cocker’s statement‘Like art, play functions as an elusive concept that is both difficult to define and impossible to contain’.
Please submit a written proposal of 50 words with images if appropriate by 26 February 2007 to Bonington 132 located in MA Visual Arts.The theme of the exhibition is intended to be deliberately open, enabling diverse proposals from all MA courses.
Curatorial Proposal
MA Visual Art students Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston are proposing to curate a one-week group exhibition as part of the Rules of the Game exhibition-taking place at The Surface Gallery between April and May 2007.
We are asking ALL art and design MA and PHD students for new and existing artwork that addresses the notion of transformation. Fundamentally, change denotes the transition that occurs when something goes from being the same to be different. Art for Change encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. Within art, change is cyclical, and one expects circumstances to recur, this formation can bring about notions of timelessness and repetitiveness. In society changes take place due to gradual modifications in mindsets and beliefs or suddenly through revolutions. Societies, which do not follow this path, have changes thrust upon them by forces beyond their control.
The selected artists will be grouped together under sub headings that relate to the title of the show: transformation. We feel that this grouping of artwork will formulate a more coherent exhibition if those that are working under the same context are situated next to to each other during the exhibition.
8/2/07
Rules of the Game- call for submissions at The Surface Gallery
I was very excited about this brief because it explored elements of play within my practice, especially with the recent CCTV work. The brief was asking for individual entries or group entries to be curated by MA students or tutors.
I had never curated a group show before and really wanted the experience especially because the brief followed the context of my work and stimulated new ideas for artwork.
The group was asked to write a 50-word proposal based on what they would create for the exhibition. Cat and myself volunteered to act as co-curators and were asked to produce a 200 word proposal to explain what the group as a collective would exhibit for this show.
MA Visual Art students Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston are proposing to curate a one-week group exhibition as part of the Rules of the Game exhibition-taking place at The Surface Gallery between April and May 2007.
We are asking ALL art and design MA and PHD students for new and existing artwork that addresses the notion of transformation. Fundamentally, change denotes the transition that occurs when something goes from being the same to be different. Art for Change encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. Within art, change is cyclical, and one expects circumstances to recur, this formation can bring about notions of timelessness and repetitiveness. In society changes take place due to gradual modifications in mindsets and beliefs or suddenly through revolutions. Societies, which do not follow this path, have changes thrust upon them by forces beyond their control.
The selected artists will be grouped together under sub headings that relate to the title of the show: transformation. We feel that this grouping of artwork will formulate a more coherent exhibition if those that are working under the same context are situated next to to each other during the exhibition.
8/2/07
Rules of the Game- call for submissions at The Surface Gallery
I was very excited about this brief because it explored elements of play within my practice, especially with the recent CCTV work. The brief was asking for individual entries or group entries to be curated by MA students or tutors.
I had never curated a group show before and really wanted the experience especially because the brief followed the context of my work and stimulated new ideas for artwork.
The group was asked to write a 50-word proposal based on what they would create for the exhibition. Cat and myself volunteered to act as co-curators and were asked to produce a 200 word proposal to explain what the group as a collective would exhibit for this show.
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