Challenge: Think of a location that your thesis project could be displayed, exhibited, disseminated, installed, shop-dropped (http://shopdropping.net/), placed, hidden, mounted, projected, inserted, etc. that is outside the traditional gallery setting.
I think it would be interesting for my thesis project to be displayed either in a venue at a concert, or at a music festival just somewhere randomly on a path. It would be appealing to the right crowd and it would be cool to watch peoples' reactions as they walk by. I think in this scene, it would be more likely that people would actually stop to look at the detail in the images. in the venue, it would be nice because there would be walls and there would be more of a way to secure them and make sure nobody disturbed them. The same could happen in a music festival setting, but I feel that I would need to be more creative in how I would secure them and display them...maybe bring a standing wall and display them on it. This could actually be a possibility...as I will be going to a few festivals this summer. It would be really cool to display 10-15 of them all in one straight line on a wall randomly somewhere on the path to a stage or something!
Many artists and photographers hope that their work engages with a larger audience outside of the museum/gallery/art&design school system. Describe how your project relates to a discipline or realm outside of art. For example, does it relate to the ideas learned through the study of human behavior/psychology or perception, preservation of wildlife, technological advancements in engineering, the anthropological study of humans and their relationship with the idea of time, outsider art, visitors to natural history museums, popular media audiences, etc? How might your work engage with this type of viewer if you presented it outside of the gallery context? How might your project engage with this type of viewer within the gallery context?
Whoa, this is quite a question! My thesis relates to self-similarity, and the idea of differences within one thing. I am trying to this what this relates to on a larger scale, outside of the art world...hmmm.
Well, with my thesis, I am trying to show that there is more than one way to look at something...so maybe it could translate into the realm of poetry, in the sense that one single poem can be translated into different meanings...we can get multiple messages from one passage, just as I get multiple images from one image. I think if I presented these works to a poet, he/she may see it as a series of stories or messages...
I believe that this particular viewer would get the same general idea from it both inside and outside the gallery setting. Though if it were outside the gallery setting (in my setting that I so desired above) I believe it would be viewed more as an aesthetic than a meaning...
This may be far fetched, but I tried! This is a really good question..I wish I had a better answer...
