The Way Forward is just round the corner!!!!

So earlier this week Viv and I spent another busy in the office. Our check list of things to do included collecting the information on the Open Call Monitoring forms and putting them into a spreadsheet. It is interesting to know who applies and how we might be able to target our promotional material to get more people to apply. We did things like research CRB checks and search for the cheapest printer and ink combo so if there are any suggestions, we would love to hear them! We also made the information sheets for the artists showing in The Way Forward exhibition. These sheets will be available at the exhibition as a way of giving the viewer a bit more background information. I personally enjoyed making these and found some about interesting pieces of work that the artists have produced in the past. One piece I particularly liked was the 'ghost-writer' by Neil Mendoza and Anthony Goh. It consists of a type-writer that writes on its own. It communicates with the viewer by writing things to them like 'Stop looking at me'.It is exciting to see all these artists come together in the one show, The Way Forward is just round the corner now!, 23rd May, a date for the diary! I am very much looking forward to seeing our commissioned piece, The 'Skywriter' by Institute for Boundary Interactions. This piece sees the local art group recreate old methods of encryption in a Skywriter situated on the roof of Nottingham Playhouse. I love this idea that the exhibition spreads through the playhouse and beyond the confinements of the building itself! Anyway, back to the listings, The Way Forward is going to be one not to miss!

Finished CAST film progamme poster

Shortlisting from an Intern's point of view

Jo and I have been looking through the open submissions. It is our first time going through this process of shortlisting artists, and finding the submissions most relevant to the concept of The Way Forward. Feeling strangely like a judge panel on the X factor, Jo and I were both really inspired by the work submitted. This process is actually extremely rewarding. From a curatorial point of view, finding artists who have made work that has responded to the brief in the best sense, is really exciting. As Jo has said, the variety was extremely broad which just goes to show how a brief can be interpreted in so many different ways. We've had submissions from local Nottingham, to all the way from the US and Germany!

Good luck everyone who has submitted.
We will be looking through submissions for DUAL soon.

Open Submissions!

We had a lovely day today looking through all the open submissions! The variety was massive, some were really good and some where a bit off topic but overall it was really enjoyable. We narrowed it down to our favourite seven so hopefully it will be good!!! I have also been thinking about the writing the play copy so have been researching various cheesy Artist based jokes.
Here are just a few that I found-
- What did the Artist say to the dentist? Matisse hurt!
- Vincent Van Gough walks into a bar and the bartender offered him a drink. No thank you, said Vincent, I've got one 'ere.

Workshops

This week as been pretty quite for the interns. We have just returned after the Easter break and unfortunately, due to lectures and the bank holidays we have not been able to get into the office this week. We are next in on Monday and are looking forward to catching up! I did however attend two meetings on Tuesday. One was about the workshops and I found it interesting. I am looking forward to being involved and will be writing up an information pack for the schools shortly.