Monday, 9 November 2009

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?
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  1. Jessica Longmore16 March 2010 at 15:08

    I am returning to this post after embarking on the Association residency at Islington Mill - hopefully we are now better placed to comment on how this process will be or has been documented.

    I think this blog is our most obvious opportunity to document the process, but hopefully it will go beyond being just a form of documentation and become a platform for discussion and collaboration in itself.

    However, I think we can often get hung up on how work will be recorded - almost feeling we have to prove work has happened. Sometimes it is not necessary. I think we have to accept that at times, it will only be the 4 of us who are aware that something has happened. If we are so busy turning round trying to document something, we may miss out on being fully immersed in the work.

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