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Posted: 3rd December 2013

Do It

Friday 5 July 2013 - Sunday 22 September 2013
Manchester Art Gallery

http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/index.php?itemID=102

http://doit2013.org/

"Help make groundbreaking new art by taking part in do it – an evolving exhibition created from a series of instructions written by artists. An eclectic mix of things for you to do at the gallery and at home, the instructions range from the active to the absurd to the philosophical."

Creative activities that require action by the viewer - or do they? Through reading have you already responded to them in your mind?

An exhibition that requires something of you to add to, become part of a collective encounter is quite democratic and bonding as an experience - and more of one too through this sense of connection?

More on Making Conversations - some group responses to the exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery

 

 


These sorts of questions are what I would like for an activity sheet for the tent exhibition - responses or other interactive cognitive elements that are much more than just looking...

I do feel that some of these would require quite a lot of trust though to get meaningful responses, but I think with the different homes rapport has been built so perhaps could test different things at different places. With the activities though there could be

  • a trail to follow
  • Questions to answer
  • Objects to respond to
  • Spaces to fill
  • Sentences/Poetry to read
  • 'Cave Painting Narratives' to follow
  • things just to hold, touch, smell, weave, move,

In terms of experience and learning theory - I am interested in how interaction affects memories of an encounter and whether the extra-ordinary 'sticks' in our minds, and to what extent.

Through experience quite fantastical tales of someone with memory impairments turn out to be true -  a small seed of reality sits within the story.

Further Reading

Seven Miles Out - Stall

I was asked to plan and curate an art gallery stall at a local teenage market in July 2012.