Residency: The Future is Social

Flat Time House, 21^st March – 1^st April

I applied to take part in Sonia Boyce’s residency ‘The Future is Social‘ because of my awareness of the direction my work was taking – moving away from the art object and towards a collaborative activity with a social purpose. Over these two weeks, I learnt a lot about the complications and fine-tuning involved in creating collaborative work and dealing with group dynamics. The following problems came to the forefront but no satisfactory solutions were found: how to establish authorship over collaborative work and how to create an art object out of process-based work so that it may enter an exhibition space. Following my research into ‘Tucumán Arde’ and the conclusions I came to in my final paper, my approach is to see these issues not as problems but as advantages. My final paper explores the wide-reaching implications of challenging traditional notions of authorship that pamper to the human ego. The lack of an art-object is the essence of work that takes place outside of exhibition spaces and allows it the possibility to interact more directly with the community in which it was made.

Please click on these links to see my blog entries from the residency:

Modification of a drawing