Post Production Response
In the later seminar we were tasked with coming up with our own unique Post Productive response. We were given images taken from the lecture along with scissors and glue. The task was to edit and cut up the images. By doing this and documenting it effectively we were already working in the style of Nicolas Bourriaud's iconic writing. The idea was to document either a time lapse or GIF file that we could then distribute and allow others to be inspired and create. Our mess and creations were then to be edited by the next seminar group. This ultimately was a small demonstration of the art world, how an artist puts out his work to his audience and others flock to manipulate, edit and in some cases steal parts of the idea for use in their own creation. We were also asked to use the hashtag - cutups to get a conversation and narrative flowing.
When we first got the pack of paper including our images I was drawn towards the very obscure and grunge images, ones with graffiti and other graphic content. Using fine-liners and other choices of media I scribbled over some images, highlighting the graffiti and distorted nature of the frames. Improvising on some of the words from left over bits of graffiti, our group decided to go along a route of Psychedelia due to the fact we thought it said that word on one of the cutouts. Improvising from there we then went onto pick out relevant bits of imagery such as David Bowie and key words within a text we were given. Being very free and spontaneous we stuck the images together, scrawling and tearing bits of imagery and text to layer a design. As a group we created 5 pieces that were all to be interlinked with each other. I really enjoyed the seminar and had fun making and then distributing the post production files. The idea of doing this within a class of 60 worked well too because the conversation over social media allowed me to see what other people were creating in their groups too.
