End of the Journey

Studio, close-up

Nina's Studio

Room 5

Stairway, close-up

Stairway

1st Floor, Room 4

Room 3

Room 2 cont.

Room 2

Room 1 cont.

Room 1 cont.

Room 1

An Experience

At an early Mutually Advantageous Association meeting we decided that each of the 4 artists involved would provide an experience for the other 3 artists, to give an insight into each individual practice. Nina was the first artist to deliver one of these such experiences. What we were invited to explore was the unique and highly unusual venue that Nina uses as a studio.  The following images give an idea of what we witnessed...

The Two Mysteries continued...

Before the summer and before we all departed for various, disparate projects and locations, we, as Mutually Advantageous Association set several texts as suggested summer reading. To this list curator and artist, Sophia Hao, added Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces, alongside a note to consider the ways in which live art and ephemeral works can be documented. At the time this exercise seemed on a tangent from other considerations and points we had discussed but, we were newly formed and looking for ways to move forward and so we accepted the task.

Now, as I review work we've posted on the blog and think about the challenges we face in our individual practices and in collaboration with each other, I realise we keep asking ourselves the same question: How to document a live work? How to document an action or a gesture? How to represent a sculpture or a space? And perhaps the most crucial question with regard to this project is how to best document the process of collaboration?

Visibility

Following the last meeting we decided to take the blog offline, or rather make it only visible to the authors. This was to stimulate blog activity. I was just wondering whether the other member feel we are ready to go back online?

Image 5

Image 4

Image 3

Image 2

Rogue Studios Oct 09

This is a selection of images I took during my residency at Rogue Project Space this Summer.  Having read the suggested texts, these images seemed particularly pertinent.

A Discovery of Space

These images document the discovery of particular, public and private spaces in Malaysia.

The images are documented here in the same order as they were shown during our last meeting at the Chinese Arts Centre however, I have omitted four images from display as a mark of respect to the householders.

These images were taken at the start of the collaborative process, with Mutually Advantageous Association - Jess, Sarah, Ying - in mind.

Sarah

Ying

Jess

Work

Work made in Malaysia during the summer and shown at October's meeting in the basement of the Chinese Arts Centre.

23 images documenting a personal discovery of space, both public and private.

The Two Mysteries

Rene Magritte, The Two Mysteries, 1966

Joseph Konsuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

Minutes

Monday 19th October 2009

Chinese Arts Centre

Present: Jess, Nina, Sarah, Ying

Achievements

Statement - agreed on 2 short statements of intent. One or both will be used on the blog, Jess will test this out.

Vault Gallery - agreed on idea for proposal. Each MAA member will play a different role in the process of creating a drawing. Jess will write a proposal. All members to forward a statement to Jess by Wednesday.

Blog - will be made private for the short term. The blog will be our main communication tool. All members agree that use of email will be confined to matters regarding dates, names or private information only.

Future meetings - will be on the first Monday of every month.

Minutes - we will use flip chart paper and marker pens to minute future meetings, a photograph of which will be posted on the blog.

Presentation of Work

Jess - showed a number of photographic images taken during her residency at Rogue Studios

Nina - showed a collection of photographic images taken during the summer in Malaysia

Future Projects

Venues for short term use - each member will approach a venue or propose a space for MAA to work in for a period of time. Possible spaces are: Whitworth lecture hall (Sarah will make contact) and Islington Mill (Ying will follow up on previous enquires).

Grizedale Visit - Ying will contact

AOB

Mailing list - we need to set one up.

Facebook account - Do we need one?

Exhibition - (or public event of some sort) we will arrange one in the near future

Dates

Monday evening 2nd Nov - Sarah's house

Saturday daytime 21st Nov - Nina's experience for MAA members

Summer Reading List

The following items were chosen as texts/works to consider over the summer 2009. 

Bachelard, Gaston. THE POETICS OF SPACE.  Boston: Beacon Press 1969 

(Chapter 6: Corners pp.136-147)

Carroll, Lewis. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

Marina Abramovic's SEVEN EASY PIECES

www.seveneasypieces.com 

Kracauer, S. 'Boredom' from THE MASS ORNAMENT: WEIMAR ESSAYS. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995 pp. 331-334