So it's just over a year since I last posted in this blog, and I'll confess I'd entirely forgotten about it. [I only found it just now accidentally trying to sign up for an account on Blogger!] The Drawing Game is currently in the shortlist for the Woolgather Art Prize, so it's interesting to read about it again now!
I originally made this blog from a need to write things down coherently, to work out how I had gotten to that stage in my practice and where I might be going. Somehow the idea of publishing it, even if I didn't draw anyone's attention to it, gave me the excuse to write things down better.
Now I'm coming to the end of my 2nd year, and it's about time for another reassessment of what I've done and where I'm headed. So:
Following on from making eyes on my carpet, I got involved in a collaborative project with 5 other 1st years. me, Frank, Archie and Sophie from the original 'west' group, plus Liam from our studio and Sarah-Louise from studio 1. It's a long story but during some random discussion in the studio we decided to do a project where we lived by rules as if in a 'post-apocalypse' world. It would be a durational performance, mainly lighthearted - we were initially interested in all the crazy ideas online about what will happen in 2012, particularly 'geomagnetic reversal' and its supposed effects on the planet. So the project began with humour.
A month or so after it's conception, the project took a drastic turn. We decided to fabricate evidence that we had done this performance, rather than really do it. We lied to everyone, tutors, peers and friends. People came to our 'exhibition' - SERIOUSLY: a better disaster scenario - and saw 'documentation' of our preparation for and participation in the 5 day 'apocalypse'. As they left they were given a 'goody bag' which contained free sweets [!] and a small flyer inviting them to question our evidence by visiting this blog which revealed the truth.
Some people still haven't forgiven us.
