Project Details and our response

Commission Call Out:

The National Centre for Craft & Design (NCCD), The Collection and LOV Young People’s Programme wish to jointly commission an artist or artists group to undertake a residency at NCCD and The Collection over 6 months from October 2013 – March 2014.

The residency will result in the artist creating a new piece of work for LOV in response to a series of workshops, run by the artist, with young people from the county.

The Collaborators response:

Our proposal centres around: collaboration, site specificity, essence.

With the two young peoples groups we would work to “process” texts with the aim of producing new site responsive works that also reflected their voices. We would work to translate the original sourced material and process it through varied workshop activities delivered by the 4 core Collaborators. From self-selected popular songs, books, art and films or self penned tracks or poems, images, films we would together aim to distil a works essence.

These new text works would also be relevant to the unique buildings and intentions of The Collection and NCCD. The works would be shown on/at both sites during the lifetime of the commission. We would utilise our large-scale projectors and create 2 projection events. Formally the projected material would visually draw on the tradition of the Artist Neon - a form that seems to represent distilled and summarised thought, ideas paired down to reveal clarity.

Finally we would distil all gathered texts down to a 2 word Neon [e.g. warp weft, nature nurture etc]. One word would be sited at The Collection the other at NCCD. Each word would make sense singularly but be completed when considered as a pair. The words selected would respond to The Collection and NCCD, enhancing the feel of both buildings, reflecting the process and echo the voices of identified communities. The neon works would be presented alongside a final projection created for the June date.