We’re back and attempting to hit the ground running with our first solo show at The Wellness and Motivational Center in Leeds! When it comes to wellbeing, community plays a big role in maintaining it. Bringing people together to perform a group activity generates entertainment for all involved and has an unquantifiable impact on ones mental stability. We’ve taken influence from various team exercises to produce our own methods when raising morale. New works we’re showing include ‘Men’s 2000 meter final’ (is a scene-by-scene break down of the men’s 100-meter final from London 2012. The video is projected onto the ceiling and the audience is invited to lie beneath it, as if looking up to the stars. The projector is propped upwards using self-help and motivational books to hold it in place.
‘The White Crayon’ will also be on display. The a children’s book written by us involving a white crayon who struggles to fit in because her drawings don’t appear. The book itself deals with exclusion due to indeterminable factors and eventual acceptance of these and subsequent integration into a community. Mirroring the space’s office aesthetic, it’s hard to escape the notion of boredom and the methods of entertainment that arise out of it. The App, ‘Paper Toss’, echoes a game, which creates fun from a seemly sparse environment. We plan to make a live version where participants are invited to ball up photos of people winning sports events to throw into a waste paper basket in the corner of the room. Regular office fans will position near the bin to increase the difficulty. To continue this line of question we hope to host live 1v1 ‘Wikipedia Game’ battles with member of the public. The Wikipedia game originates in educational or work based spaces where the institution limits ones web access (gaming websites). As a way to get round it people invented the Wikipedia game, which involves travelling from hyperlink to hyperlink between two specified pages (start and finish).
There’s a common misconception that you have to be unique to be successful. The idea of an ‘original genius’ is dated and inaccurate; we’re all products of our environment. ‘Remember that style?’ is a version of the memory game concentration involving images of iconic artist’s hairstyles throughout the years.
