Friday 1 August 2008

Final hurdles...

Juts a quick post to keep everyone informed on the project. Everything is now installed printed ready and raring to go now for the My First Billboard documentary installation for Chelsea Motel. I'll pop up some shots of the final billboard and installation soon.

Monday 28 July 2008

Stripped bare...

Well there she is, naked as the day she was born. As you can see the board was striped today and the wad of paper removed is being readied for hanging. The accompanying poster to hang along with said wad in Chelsea Motel has now been finished too:

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The poster/documentary wallchart is itself a kind of homage to some of Broodthaers printed works:

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More as it happens...

Sunday 27 July 2008

I've started so i'll finish...

So here it is the final print on MFB. Wipe that tear from your eye though as the project hasn't finished quite yet. I'll keep posting up until the Chelsea Motel show where the documentation and information about this will be displayed as an installation.

So the final print. I wanted a sort of full stop for the last print. The prints on the board will be stripped off and shown in the show so whatever is last is what will be seen by viewers for the length of the show, so i decided upon the second of the post-it notes on MFB. I like post-it notes. I like there practicality but also their humanness. They have personality, or as much as can be expected from stationary. This particular one came with a submission for the Community Noticeboard day and was probably my favorite thing i received, so strictly speaking this is a collaboration with David Yates. Thanks David:

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And so thats it for the actual print series. There will be a print up there for the show but it will be something more archival or related to the blog. I'll keep posting up with the shows installation though so keep those eyes open.

Comments?

So today i posted up the final print for this part of MFB. It was somehow both sad and exhilarating. I think it was beginning to takes its toll mentally and physically and so its good to finish but i did like the pressure of cresting the work on a day to day basis, it was oddly liberating. However before we get to the final print there's a day gone astray do here's Friday's print first and then I'll start a new post for today's. Only seems right somehow.

Friday's print was entitle Any Comments? and is a series of comments about a billboard. The implication is that they are about this board, however they are not and the text reads 'on this billboard' not about. They are in fact culled from another far more right on and moral billboard project, not a showboating ego one. I think they are testament though to how carried away people can get by a large scale image purporting to be offering them some sort of fulfilling rhetoric. Either that or how emotionally over-wrought some members of the public are. Here it is:

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and a final one showing Mike Lawton's work trying to escape through from the Community day
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There is also a video of this which I'll post up when it's been edited (what little editing there will be)