Pages Exhibition - Minutes
Monday, 6th of February 2006
In attendance: Nicky, Francesca, Linda, Kelly, Gin, Katrina, Clancy, Kiki, Melissa, Desdemona, Beth and Emma.
Primary focus: ‘The Theatre of the impossible’ exhibition at the Barbican (private view) on the 2nd of February.
- Clancy introduced to the rest of the group the success of this evening with regards to the new contacts made. The opportunity to attend this private view, allowed us to primarily observe a Polish female artist, Katarina Kozra, relevant that is to the up coming trip to Poland but also to make new possible contacts with potential women involved within the arts in Poland.
- A major success from this evening was the contact made with the Zacheta National Art gallery in Poland, thanks to Rosemary and C lancy. The response was extremely positive from the director who had previously curated an all women exhibition in Poland, and is very interested in the Pages Exhibition. There is a likely hood that we will meet with the director in Poland.
- As a result of Clancy’s skilled and enthusiastic approach during this private view, a contact has also been made with the new director of the Polish Cultural Institute, which had previously proved difficult to make contact with.
- In addition, Clancy also reported that the Barbican were also interested in the ‘Pages Exhibition’
- For those who did not attend the Barbican Private view, the group has agreed to arrange a second visit to the exhibition, possibly on the 6th of February. Katarina, is also scheduled to return to the Barbican on the 2nd of March to do a talk.
- Under Clancy’s suggestion, Katarina’s return may prove useful to potentially introduce her to Sarah Lucas, who would also be extremely interesting to bring into this project. Clancy’s observation of Katarina, would suggest that there is a similar likeness between her and Sarah Lucas both in work and in gesture?
Second on the agenda: Business cards and the press release format.
- Thanks to work put in by Babette we now have a standardised press release, or at least a formal statement outlining what we are initially about, this includes bussiness cards.
-Lynda has offered to lend her extensive design knowledge to aid the design process and decision making with regards to layout of any official pages documentation.
- As a result of the exhibition still in its early stages of development, Lynda has suggested to keep the font and the layout ‘less designed’, therefore creating an impression of anonymity and allowing us to be flexible if we wish to revise the initial exhibition concept. The ‘lack of design’ will also strengthen the seriousness of the exhibition.
- Nicky, has responded that the design of the image for the exhibition should be discussed at later date, when we have further developed our direction for the exhibition.
- With regards to the identity, Kelly has brought up the issue of whether we as a group are to be consulted of these design processes and changes?
- To aid further discussion with all our individual research projects, a presentation on the 15th of February at 9.30 am, has been set up to ‘pitch’ and introduce our particular relevant fields to each other.
- The issue of pairing people up, should arise from this presentation, once we all have a clearer idea of the different research areas.
-Clancy has also suggested how we should prepare for our trip to Poland by documenting some of our own work, thus equipping ourselves should anyone be interested in our own practice. This will also diversify our approach to potential new contacts and draw to light that this is a professional project.
- Under Francesca's suggestion, instead of carrying images by hand, why not store images of our work on the blog, allowing us to simply hand over an email address to view our profiles.
- Outcome; find a representative image of our work, if more than one, try and scan them in on one A4 page and post on the blog.
Thirdly, various updates on our work to date:
- Kelly has contacted the Lesbian/Gay and Transgender organisation and will be attending a conference in Dublin based on a Lesbian Keynote theme.
- Melissa has been investigating archives of women video art and has also been looking at the Eastern European film and Video archives.
- Kikki will be visiting Oslo on the 15th of February, to visit various galleries and expand her knowledge of Nordic art.
- To tie up the meeting it has been suggested, prior to our visit to Poland we should all investigate the situation of women in Poland, to at least build some foundation when meeting women involved in the arts of their background and references.
..........and finally, group pictures were taken!
(Duration of the meeting: Two hours roughly).
Monday, 6th of February 2006
In attendance: Nicky, Francesca, Linda, Kelly, Gin, Katrina, Clancy, Kiki, Melissa, Desdemona, Beth and Emma.
Primary focus: ‘The Theatre of the impossible’ exhibition at the Barbican (private view) on the 2nd of February.
- Clancy introduced to the rest of the group the success of this evening with regards to the new contacts made. The opportunity to attend this private view, allowed us to primarily observe a Polish female artist, Katarina Kozra, relevant that is to the up coming trip to Poland but also to make new possible contacts with potential women involved within the arts in Poland.
- A major success from this evening was the contact made with the Zacheta National Art gallery in Poland, thanks to Rosemary and C lancy. The response was extremely positive from the director who had previously curated an all women exhibition in Poland, and is very interested in the Pages Exhibition. There is a likely hood that we will meet with the director in Poland.
- As a result of Clancy’s skilled and enthusiastic approach during this private view, a contact has also been made with the new director of the Polish Cultural Institute, which had previously proved difficult to make contact with.
- In addition, Clancy also reported that the Barbican were also interested in the ‘Pages Exhibition’
- For those who did not attend the Barbican Private view, the group has agreed to arrange a second visit to the exhibition, possibly on the 6th of February. Katarina, is also scheduled to return to the Barbican on the 2nd of March to do a talk.
- Under Clancy’s suggestion, Katarina’s return may prove useful to potentially introduce her to Sarah Lucas, who would also be extremely interesting to bring into this project. Clancy’s observation of Katarina, would suggest that there is a similar likeness between her and Sarah Lucas both in work and in gesture?
Second on the agenda: Business cards and the press release format.
- Thanks to work put in by Babette we now have a standardised press release, or at least a formal statement outlining what we are initially about, this includes bussiness cards.
-Lynda has offered to lend her extensive design knowledge to aid the design process and decision making with regards to layout of any official pages documentation.
- As a result of the exhibition still in its early stages of development, Lynda has suggested to keep the font and the layout ‘less designed’, therefore creating an impression of anonymity and allowing us to be flexible if we wish to revise the initial exhibition concept. The ‘lack of design’ will also strengthen the seriousness of the exhibition.
- Nicky, has responded that the design of the image for the exhibition should be discussed at later date, when we have further developed our direction for the exhibition.
- With regards to the identity, Kelly has brought up the issue of whether we as a group are to be consulted of these design processes and changes?
- To aid further discussion with all our individual research projects, a presentation on the 15th of February at 9.30 am, has been set up to ‘pitch’ and introduce our particular relevant fields to each other.
- The issue of pairing people up, should arise from this presentation, once we all have a clearer idea of the different research areas.
-Clancy has also suggested how we should prepare for our trip to Poland by documenting some of our own work, thus equipping ourselves should anyone be interested in our own practice. This will also diversify our approach to potential new contacts and draw to light that this is a professional project.
- Under Francesca's suggestion, instead of carrying images by hand, why not store images of our work on the blog, allowing us to simply hand over an email address to view our profiles.
- Outcome; find a representative image of our work, if more than one, try and scan them in on one A4 page and post on the blog.
Thirdly, various updates on our work to date:
- Kelly has contacted the Lesbian/Gay and Transgender organisation and will be attending a conference in Dublin based on a Lesbian Keynote theme.
- Melissa has been investigating archives of women video art and has also been looking at the Eastern European film and Video archives.
- Kikki will be visiting Oslo on the 15th of February, to visit various galleries and expand her knowledge of Nordic art.
- To tie up the meeting it has been suggested, prior to our visit to Poland we should all investigate the situation of women in Poland, to at least build some foundation when meeting women involved in the arts of their background and references.
..........and finally, group pictures were taken!
(Duration of the meeting: Two hours roughly).
posted by Anonymous at 2/07/2006 01:35:00 pm
2 Comments:
Well done Emma, that was a task and a half! I would just like to add that I am planning to visit the Archiology Museum in Warsaw.
And that in relation to the final exhibition and possible access to our research, I rased the questions: should we unify our research by using particular stationary? is it wise to think so far ahead to that stage? Will we find ourselves in a muddle at the end when we find that our reserch is all in different types of books and folders? will we wish that we had thought about it earlyer?
Has anybody taken this into considedration yet?
Thanks for doing the minutes and getting them blogged so quick - much appreciated.
Beth - are you talking about rough notes etc or things like the report we will produce in May? Personally, I'd be surprised if anybody could even read my notes - they'll need a lot of reorganising and tidying up before I'd want public access to them. Let's talk about possible presentation formats etc on Wednesday. I'm not sure about Nici and Rosemary's ideas for presenting stuff yet.
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