TPP2 Tutorial 6 (pair tutorials with Phillipa Lawrence)
Thursday 15th April 2021
Question 1 : Do you have a way of collecting feedback?
Answer :
- its very trendy to monitor feedback / monitor footfall etc - especially for current arts funding / commission work
- attendance figures / visitor books
- its finding a way to do collect feedback without impacting the experience
- also you never want the questions to be led, the response really needs to come from the visitor
- often the host gallery or organisation will be responsible for this as opposed to the artist
- public realm (very popular at the moment, focus on involvement, strategic in approach) | gallery art
Question 2 : Do you consult your audience at the start at the start of your projects? or is it fully formed from your own research / or the brief? How important is response or is the process of making and sharing more a release for you?
Answer :
- a work is never finished until you present it
- Phillipa doesn't really consult the audience per say, but she's grateful that people resonate with her work
- figure out what the making is an act of and what the sharing is an act of for you and this will guide you
Question 3 : What is your dream project? A project you would love to realise next?
Answer :
- the context determines how it will land
- site-responsive / site-specific / site-sensitive
- space first or idea first?
- what are the parameters of the space?
General Advice
- be aware of your contemporaries but maintain the one foot in / one foot out approach
- always show up for yourself and your peers
- think about how the work may be received
- in terms of conveying space use scale models, collages, CADS, sketches
- think about the site more than the visuals (times of day, weather)
