The Digital
Artist Residency is over! It was a really great experience and we would recommend
everyone applies! We spoke about this part of the way through but it is truly
interesting how a work with a set up but not a real goal develops over time and
genuinely surprises you at times. It makes us think twice about the durational
performance works in which nothing is really planned but just set up. However,
it is only the idea of allowing something to play out that we’re thinking
about; the notion that you just want to ‘see where the space takes you’ as
opposed to actually considering what you might do continues to baffle us.
It’s
now the 4th day of 12ΓΈ collective’s 30/30 project where artists involved
generate a work every day during the month of April. Our first work was a film
about thinking and ideas and was the product of a conversation we had a while
ago about where those things (things and ideas) manifest. During the
conversation we discussed how it’s all but impossible to sit down and just have
an idea and even if you do manage to get any blood out of that rock it’s going
to be low quality. Instead to landed on ideas coming from experience and
opening your eyes to the world around you and the overlooked benefits of just
going for a walk or sitting in the park. So the film is basically a script
about day dreaming or looking out of the window and how this can be beneficial.
After producing it we came across an article with a quote by Ryan Gander who
agrees with us (or maybe we agree with him?) saying that ‘ideas come in the car’.
The next
work was also a film but more down the storytelling/mystery line of thinking;
it was an almost still shot of a corridor from which a muffled argument could
be heard. Small details were occasionally recognisable but never a full
sentence, allowing the audience or viewer to create their own narrative.