SPACE
SPACE
Pressure from the curators team led us to really think about our exhibition space. We kept on changing our final outcome ideas for various reasons and this will therefore influence our exhibition space as they need to be cohesive and relate back to each other in terms of theme and aesthetic. We have 14 days until we need to start physically building our sets which adds some pressure on everyone to really think before we make any rash decisions regarding our space. Although I wasn’t a curator, I was not only interested in the general aspect of being a curator and the types of skills they acquire and the day to day tasks of a curator, I also wanted to support my group curators so they knew that the designs we’re going to put forward will be approved run by the whole group first.
Challenges that we were facing were:
Where were we going to put our piece in relation to everyone else’s?
- For this we decided on a corner space, not many people wanted a corner space but we genuinely didn;t mind. I believe if we place a TV in the corner and have a small intimate section for our exhibition space, we still have lots to play around with, and allows the other groups which have a more solid idea who a lot of room to have the space they need.
What external things do we need to note down?
- We need a plug and a potential spotlight if there isn’t one on the ceiling already. We plan on decorating the rest of the space ourselves.
How will we decorate and transform the space?
- Wallpaper, ceiling to floor like 1940s interior style
- Old television or lamp, as suggested by tutors in tutorial for simplicity
- Personality traits placed on the wall, or decorated in an abstract way, hanging from something, as suggested by tutors in tutorial to make our space more unique and personal to the details in our project which will hopefully make ours look strong.
Other ideas we had as a group:
- Changing room, mirrors- distortion
- Testing an old tv, where will we source one?
- Find wallpaper
- Find table
- Making curtains and bedding?- made my someone in the group soon
- Photoshopping most of the room in?
We have plans to go to fabric land to source some materials/ scrap fabrics we can use for the house, we have a clear idea of the style which will help us now.
These are a series of mood boards I have created to visualise the actual fashion exhibition space and somehow that correspond to the concepts and the messages that they are portraying within the short clips that we will be filming. I’ve just done these so that I can generate some ideas for the curators and that we can finally get a start in understanding what we want for our fashion space but I feel that we have been falling behind that aspect whereas we have been going forward with the fashion film and green screening. We were suggested that our room should be quite minimal maybe with one TV one lamp in the spotlight which could look really nice with our 1940s decorations and wallpaper but hopefully we will be getting however I feel as if there are so many props and objects that we associate with each of the characters that we have made that it would be wise to include quite a few therefore making the less minimalistic. Following on from this idea who also suggested by different tutor that we could have a more abstract art in space maybe we weren’t thinking that for out the box and we could have words that are hanging down from the ceiling that relate to our characters we could have a little symbolic objects on the floor or on little pedestals for the audience to interact with and maybe to raise questions about our work.
