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We’ve got a few more works that are in shows this week, some new some old. ‘Touch Me Baby’ is a one night only exhibition where guests will be invited to freely interact with all artwork on show, without fear of alarms or getting told off for standing too close. It feels like an interesting idea that by allowing physical interaction, they hopes to integrate the art and public in a far more intimate way, dissolving any feelings of alienation or intimidation previously separating the two. The show will also reverse the role of the artist and viewer, as each artwork will evolve into new, unforeseen forms throughout the evening, dictated by the hand of the public. The work we are choosing to exhibit therefore is ‘You need to have some fun’; a physical rendition of the App ‘Paper Toss’.

We’re also developing a new work for the 2D/4D open studios, which comes in the form of a leaflet. The leaflets are inconspicuously placed in a clear plastic dispenser and visitors will be allowed to take them. The content of the leaflet is advert-style/sale pitch of a new commissioned artwork for the front of CSM, one that would replace the iconic array of colored fountains. We have used language from that of an estate agent to create appealing sentences without actually saying what the work will be. The work is then put to the reader to think about the possibilities of the space presented to them. Art can be sold and traded like any other commodity and sometimes it becomes far less about what’s being made and more about who’s making it. Therefore we’ve used the artist persona we’ve recently used, Millie Place, to act as the one making the new work. Fiction plays a big part of our practice and twisting the current world into something that resembles its former self but causes a second glance is an aim for the things we construct.