Overall evaluation.

Reflect on the progress they have about positive and negative points?

To reflect on my progress throughout my area within the site-specific and the progress of the group they could have to start with the general idea of swapping. I found out all ideas that was first announced to us as a group that we had decided upon were it each had a great possibility of being something amazing but it came down 23 members of the group myself war and Sophie to decide upon sites and they decided upon my chosen site which was the North Rhine wine bar in the vault. I found out I have to go out and speak to people but luckily enough the owners are personal friends of mine so it didn't make it that difficult for me but when it came to research I found that I have to go out and ask people arm for our information about the building are going to the museum the archives of Swansea the Civic Centre library plus using the Internet and to guys altogether didn't find much information but I did make that jointly to she speak to these people as I am quite nervous person in public and I think I did this quite well and I think that this project has helped me give myself more confidence to actually going out and speaking to people in the community which I found most of them were willing to help. I think positive way to look at this exhibition is that hit has given me more confidence to speak to people and that am been able to experience something like this is it is amazing for myself and De Nero to have the opportunity to work with people within my class that I would never have naturally teamed up with and I've found that the people that I was grouped with actually were very knowledgeable about certain things are very helpful in research arm statements understanding and just throwing ideas at me that I could do for my Pacific area and I found that extremely useful arm side of it all for me personally is the fact that even know we gone quite well as a group there were a few group issues with stubbornness arm people not willing to change their sort of outcome on the idea disapproval to be a quest rest will fall on to other members am I personally try to stay as mediator did not really want to get involved because I could understand both points but this was easily overcome by compromising with each other to work and I think that's riddled about unable to compromise and obviously if there was something important that we really necessary thought that we wanted or needed in our work then we try to support each other as much as possible in their ideas and I think that works really well and another man negative to the idea is that a few members of the group or two members of the group I very rarely showed up are merely one member I should say I really showed up this proved to be very annoying for the rest of us a very frustrating arm offices understandable when we do group so wherefore when he was coming into the group he didn't know where we will act so you had very little in part personally into the project itself and process of it I do find this quite annoying and at a negative to project itself. But I think the finalists overcome this quite well and we were able to sell side of differences to create an amazing atmosphere and experience for the viewers who came to see our site-specific work.

With hindsight what would you do differently?

What would I do differently think about what I would do differently arm I think I I've proven that in my work when I've done differently to my creative side as well as our thought process are a began with armed the idea of creating a limbo our book within a peak sculpture with our talking with lecturers I found out it was over complicating things and that it needed peace simple as for how can I do this simple but have such a good effect and that was to are then I created at the waiting room with help of lecturers am I think personally if I was to do it differently Ah but if we had the same theme I think I probably would have done the same thing over again and the only things I would have probably done differently would be maybe experiment a little bit more with some different furniture within the space and maybe explore a bit more in my area to wear a position things a little better but and even then that abuts because I think the way I positioned it worked quite well as in the VAT of coming twit to a certain stop on the linking out but I do think now thinking of it that people got quite distracted with arm Jordan Thomas is are peace so I think if I could do as it definitely doesn't the same power from experiment more with furniture but I think I would have popped up a kitten so they wouldn't be able to see that I think Google would been some think else would have created another room and locker room right through when I think I would Dunlap of whether seating area was down to stop them from been so distracted by his work and his performance and Leighton then fall creating another altogether when it within a space which I think been really effective so I think that's only difference I really would have done arm maybe I would have actually brought in a proper computer and old health 19 at computer to start pushing that fine line of your notes in the past and people are coming from the present and the kind of transition think I probably would have done as well if I wouldn't say of had more time but if I had the means to transport the change and the computer Duffy would have experimented little bit more is anything i can really think of.

How does this experience in package your creative practice?

This experience has impacted my creative process in many different ways has made me think more about health and safety which personally I don't do enough of am in in all sorts of matters I don't do because I liked work alone our most the time a daily risk it is possible to myself if that an unfortunate okay with that and it shouldn't be an mouthing this is helped me to understand I shouldn't be okay with that it. And this is also impacted my personal practice because and another had a problem with working in a group I've always been a group player knows I'm quite hands-on I try to be extremely helpful with people they try to do that and encourage people in my group to do what they needed to do experiment with everything Are just pushing them to do everything that they possibly could do  so I think from this process of working with a team I think I found out that I am a good leader that I was a leader I would say my friend all was group leader by was his confidant I would push him to push them and am able from that I found out I'm very good at encouraging people to do what they needed to do and that for me personally says a lot about working with others. And given me a lot of confidence being able to go out and talk to people and given my email address and have to am there are Crossly have a conversation going on between the boss is the management of bar staff constantly have to tell what were doing would be down to me arm along with the research and trend finding more information setting up meetings that was all again left Anthony I found that I'm click until the phone and in person I'm a little with a little more neither am I think my may mean up brawl on my full process is how that might group very am enthusiastic about my idea and they give me a lot confidence go ahead with it and the day were very you should do this this this would work tried less have a look at that and I think without the people in my group I don't think that my call waiting area scenario would have been as good taking positive criticism is another thing that I think has helped my creative process to be able to do this another our area that I think that I've been able to look into line and experience son and quite enjoy athletes was they advertise month I quite enjoyed making me poster even know it wasn't selected adult remind the poster that we chose that worked and just been a part of that having a creative flow into that with the group and the fact that we keep up something so good back again and are having that but that's lingering there with the advertiser am which is somewhere I think I'd like to be interested and. Found that I'm not actually that bad at installation and work which I think is a good thing that I'm not and am I could possibly in the future may think about for further exhibitions to installations am is a possibility won't rule it out it did not  like get and to appoint – quite enjoyed it a lot easier than I thought that it would have been tightened as the a lot of big thumbs up for myself and I think that this entire project has boosted every part of my ego arm in terms of how it went how to do it again that the process that is giving me that the understanding of others and helping me find a part of myself as well is finding out that I'm actually a possible good team leader as well am that really that that is of a confidence boost and I think that is what this means project is about as a confidence boost to top Feeney arts and forging as its confidence to go out there meet the community find out what you can find out be a part of the community that you living I'm giving some thing to them that they can enjoy and it'll be worth it in the end I do think that it's something that helps you grab your bearings and helps you with your fellow classmate and help their money also think it helps groups of people within your course to get to know each other better can I found I gone really well with all of them am and that for me is personal win for this entire project that I've made for new friends that I hope you're still in a couple of weeks still be able to talk like we did before and also  another point to a  future reference really arm because my a group that I was in was so honest with me but without being too critical to blunt I think I know sometimes need it for my work to understand if an localities within understanding my work that the people I was talking to you is another love the idea of without them I don't think what are reached at or would be able to fulfil its potential as well as I did without them and that I'd like to say our great thanks to my should my  group because without my group the exhibition wouldn't of been such a success without them and I hope that they feel the same way with me.

video of our overall performance of the exhibition space

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My 2 day experience of the abyss exhibition.

Day two

The second day of the exhibition didn't feel as near bus in fact if I am to be honest I wasn't looking forward to it because I know personally that we would get Stranglers and it would be a long day not like the day before where time to seem to skip so quickly. We opened at 11 and we didn't get anyone through until 12:15 which I personally knew would happen. I try to keep myself occupied by actually writing how I was feeling in the space at that time became difficult because of the sound and I was getting distracted quite easily. But by 1 o'clock we had a flood of students that came running throw doors I had personally been told that people had told them that they have to see our exhibition space again displayed me feel quite big headed that people liked a work so much. Myself and my group decided instead of take a two-hour break as we did the day before that we would split outbreaks up into half-hour throughout the day this would give us time to go for a cigarette all to the toilet Something to eat or even just to turn the sound off because it became so nauseating to listen to for so long. We had a gentle flood but we eventually did die for half-hour which seemed to drag fraternity guy thinks quite funny considering that is what we were trying to create in the vault. But by 3 o'clock we had picked up for a quickly where we had 10 students20 minutes. I found that having students and people inneed the time go quicker and found that a number and spent an hour within our exhibition. I decided a one point to actually interact properly with the members of the student society who coming into our exhibition at them personally how they were feeling about our work I had number of positive responses from students and the main word that was frequently used when I spoke to eat of the students was “it was outstanding” but talking to a few other students they felt quite scarednow I personally know that it wasn't our aim to scare anyone but at the same time be slightly proud of that as well because our work was quite dark and devilish to the pain we could see we were worshipping daemons and I think the effect of Ole’s work really tied all our pieces together creating such an amazing experience down then the vaults that we had completely Nutley transformed that space. By 5:10 we had decided to close we had been quiet almost 2 hours and that we had had enough. So that's what we did all in all out of the people that had come down the stairs of hell we had had 102 souls that pending in limbo that travelled through all our space and then was released back into the world which I think is an impressive number of people to have visit our exhibition. From less then we had a short break away from the noise turned on the lights breaking up the darkness's mind on each other as we were so proud and then realised that we then have to take our exhibition down. I personally couldn't wait to tear down my area which took me 10 minutes tops to do because by the second day I want to deceit gone which is a hell of a difference considering the first day I loved it to the second day I hated it in such short time of 12 hours I can't explain it and I don't really understand why but I was quite glad when we have to turn down our exhibition which took us almost 3 hours to do. I feel that one to my members of my group were asleep set that we have to deal at the same time could understand that we couldn't do that every day.

Overall I think the two days were a massive success we had 102 people visit our exhibition we had so much great feedback from the public and students that had ventured down into our own personal hell is that we had created. And it was then an amazing experience personally for myself, I feel that it has opened my eyes to other ways of thinking and to be more open to suggestions and I thank my group for that very much in all in all just an amazing experience to have and to have such an awesome group.

My 2 day experience of the abyss exhibition.

Day – 1

The first daily exhibition we arrived at the North same wine bar at 10 o'clock as a group to just go over some final detailing like checking and sound effects. This also give us chance to make sure that our space was to our liking and that we were ready to prepare and be opened to the public. as I personally sat there as first space that you entered as you came down the stairs of Purgatory I had all sorts of mixed feelings just before we opened a narrow opening time was 11 AM. Which are praising the almost immediately provoked then we had many students come into our exhibition this seemed overwhelmed because of the sound and the darkness that they were walking into I myself was deathly feeling the pressure and the needs of heart in to speak to these people. I gave them a clipboard and on the clipboard with sheets are categorised name date time email address and signature I asked him to sign in, first they seemed a little confused and I even had one person ask if this was the exhibition, differently told under the yes it was and it was a part of the exhibition space. This made me feel very near us in my first fear the people wouldn't grasp the idea of my work. But they did so and sat down and I could see them pouring through my magazines and as they looked around they seemed slightly overwhelmed about what was surrounding them. After the first four people had come through our doors I felt slightly more at ease and quite surprised how many people were willing to give me as much information as I had asked for my contact sheet. As time went on by at 1145 we had had 17 people in I personally was chuffed at the amount of interest that we had for our exhibition but by 11:45 I became extremely near us knowing that my lecturers were on their way. By 10 to 12 hour lecturers were coming through the door, instantly needs correcting stress panic among other emotions how they would react to MySpace alone never mind the rest. But the pit of my stomach I knew that our exhibition worked well because we all led on to each other's spaces mine was the waiting the approach of death and confessing your sims with a timely and almost wanting sound that get killed through the hall and that's how I saw our exhibition space. So I calmly handed my clipboard and to the lecturers and asp into signing and once they had signed in hiding calmly told them that they needed to take seat within the waiting area. Once again panic as I saw my lectures leaning in to have a look at the magazine covers that I had placed within MySpace as they were planning are part I felt an almost immediately need to go over asked them not to but I contain myself in panic and stuck to reading my books that were on my desk. From there then I ascertained that they could move on and experience the rest of the exhibition as they walked past me a sale relief. After they had had a look around the entire exhibition they gather dust and asked if we could go upstairs and have a quiet word panic once again thinking that possibly we had done something wrong or that they disliked it. But it was only a short interval where they asked us a few questions aboutand if we think that it worked and we will also pulled up on a few health and safety and location issues, where it was pointed out that it may become difficult for students to actually locate the exhibition from there then we put up a few more posters outside of the bar come into the bar and at the top of the stairs where the exhibition was problem solved. The second issue that was brought up was there were no warning signs about the stairs with stairs had had rubble on them which was to give that 80 feeling of adding to the atmosphere that they were coming into which I'd make sure that there were no physical stones on the actual steps to norm would hurt themselves but there was no warning which is a hazard so we also quickly created a sign that we stuck at the top of the stairs and at the door stating warning caution of stairs which then I felt more comfortable about. The lecture seemed quite happy overall of our work and then moved on to the next exhibition. By 1:30 we had had a complete summary of 40 people come into a exhibition space. As time went on I felt more and more comfortable speaking people and tell them what to do and it was surprisingly how fast time actually flew by. But by 2 o'clock myself and my group decided that we needed a break purely because the atmosphere the cold and because of Ole’s sound that was echoing around the vault that we could not take it any more. Which I think is a good thing that we had created such a strong atmosphere dogma once we had come upstairs it was a whole different thing the light sort of the reality that we were facing of the spaces were completely different and myself personally and I know within my group we were quite happy that we had accomplished one of our main goals. We went back again by 3:30 to continue on with our exhibition by this point I must admit I was very tired but was still hoping for more people to arrive and exhibition. In my personal area I found a number of people with asthma in the time we would tell them that I did not know the time which I had made sure did not work but found a number of people were looking at their phones. And also while sat down there feelings as people that visited our exhibition I noticed a number of them took a number of the leaflets to understand work which again myself and my group were quite happy with and that is quite diffuser students that came understood my work and quite happily looked through the magazines which I think really did help them grasp a little better what they were doing sitting in a waiting room. And also I noticed that I have mentioned before in number of posts that high have decided to our display to magazines on the chairs in forcing the people to look at the titles to help them understand the space but with the cup diet placed into MySpace was either moved or sat upon, and must omit this did annoy me slightly but it made me aware how people can be so arrogantly blind to the simplest things in their surrounding areas. I think I can only account for three people that actually sacked on the other side to the coat and realising that the space had been taken. By 5 o'clock I was extremely tired and so was my group we had chosen to close by 5:30. Thanks to my signing in sheet we were able to carry up how many people throughout our first day of our exhibition had come through our doors and worked out as 62 people had visited our exhibition space and when I had to hold my group this they were static and personally saw Zoe that our first day we had had Sony people and to the point where we had three students came back three times and each time brought more people with them because they personally loved our exhibition so much and that for me meant that we had exceeded at the site-specific project and myself are my group had worked very hard to create this hellish atmosphere they think that we did so well and I must admit that I am personally sinning by being proud of myself and I know my group are as well.

My final decisions of My Space.

 

All images on this blog work captured buying me on my phone the day of the exhibition.

This is an image of what you would see as you came down the stairs of purgatorie, a simple waiting-room that doesn't affect the decor of the space. This I did intentionally, because I find when I enter a lot of waiting rooms very often the furniture dose’nt really fit the decorum of the room. I wanted to create this in my space which I think I did quite well. The chairs came from university and so did the table with the magazines are located on the left-hand side of the image. I place my coat within the space an also placed two magazines on two of the chairs this was to split up the space as you can see in the image above. I purposely did this to see if people would avoid sitting there or would they move the items. The magazines also have a different purpose of being placed on the chairs this was to encourage the public to pick up the magazine, which I had covered the front of with different references to limbo, dying, death, badness in the world and beliefs this was in hoping that this would help them understand or grasp what I was trying to project within my work.
 

 

This image above isn't of great quality but is just to show what I used to reference limbo within my work. I picked up 10 magazines from a free book store which were more than happy to help and then I went online and found different publications of magazines from years since gone, and all of these have some sort of reference to Limbaugh or life and death. As you can see there are things like time is rethinking Heaven, the soul, Passion limbo, death is the host, too busy to die, the death wish, national geographics about the poor and also 2 newspaper articles. one is within the image but the other was not which I found quite interesting, it was a paper article that was disclosed a few years back with a frontline states “limbo does not exist says pope” which I actually used on my reception desk. When I thought about having these hints to limbo I didn't want to be in your face with titling but I found that may be a slight hint to limbo would help them grasp the idea of my waiting-room.

This image above is of the reception area that I decided at the last minute to add into the space. I did it because I felt that there was something about having a receptionist that made it that much more real not only to myself but for the public. I want to play a part in my work where I am the receptionist and there for telling the pending souls that come down to me that they would have to wait until I tell them to move along. I will ask them to sign in on the clipboard that you can see within the image with there name, date, time, email address and signature this gave it a more realistic narrative on the workings of the idea about registering yourself into a place where you would spend eternity. I want to then make the public weight up to a minute and a half to 2 minutes in the waiting area, witch I think that this would help them come accustomed to what is happening around them. Also you can see on the desk is my laptop so I would look busy along with two books that were opened and turned to certain pages which referenced aloneness and the human body and brain, therefore It would look like I am researching the human soul. There's also a wilting flowers on the desk that are very dusty and look dreary of colour and life, I think it would help me to signify the timelessness and the depth of the place. Alongside that is a candle which I will not light because health and safety, it is next to a plastic flower which is flammable so I will choose not to light the candle. An then finally I would have the leaflets on show on the deck witch I then will stock upon throughout the exhibitions.

As an overall look through my space witch is small an very simple, I feel that I have added plenty of references to limbo and the act of death within my installation. I think that it will work really well and the simple act of adding a reception will be a clearer way for the people to understand that they will be waiting. My only fear is that people would not grasp this concept that I am trying to create a space in time with no really physical form that limbo’s exists only in our minds therefor becomes the beginnings of the descending into the abyss. I just hope that the public understand that the waiting room has a significant to the exhibition.

 

 

The leaflets

 

 All images on this post was captuered by myself on my phone

In this image above you can see that this is the front of our leaflet. It is a very simple and yet select decision of choice colours for our leaflet, poster and summons. We stuck with the black-and-white drawing this reference to our site more or less gives you a feel of the space that you would be entering. On further notice there is only one colour that was added to the leaflet which red. The red was to reference the colour of the space but unfortunately the room was painted but we felt that the red really worked with the leaflet and the fact that it was so claim and slight colour was just enough.

 

Within this image you can see that is is the back of the leaflet, which is a very simple drawing of what the layout of our space would look like. Then at the bottom written in red is the numbers 1 to 5 in the names of the members of our group. This is a simple little reference to the exhibition spaces that you would be visiting, in an order which so 1 would be myself as I was the first space you would enter, then it was Jordan Thomas who was located at side of me, then 3 and 4 was a collaboration between Charlotte Clothier and Sophie Mccabe in the joint space and finally 5 was Ole Nesset which his was an audio that was played through out all our spaces.

 

This image above is the inside of the leaflet which you would find our artists statements from each person in the group. We wrote a small bit of infomashion about our work to give the public a glimpse into our ideas to help them to understand the concept that we were trying to portray in all of our works. I thought that this leaflet in general worked really well to our exhibition and it was well produced by the group collaboration of many discussions about the leaflet, posters and summonses. This was the final outcome to our final agreement on what our advertising for our exhibition would be.

 

 

 

The summonses

Image above was taken by myself on my phone

 

Within this image you can see above, is a summons that we wrote. All together there was six letters one for each lecturer witch, they found in their cubbyhole at University. The handwritten summoned asked them to accompany us on the 18th and 19th of November at the No sign bar to experience our exhibition.  I feel that this was a great way to invite our lecturers to our show. The letter itself had been teabag to give it old rusty ethics feel witch I think tided into the posters and leaflets really well. The letter itself was hand written by one of the group members Charlotte who then wrinkled up the summons and then folded it back out to give the letter a timely field to it. Once the letter had been wrote we then placed it into a very old cream styled textured base envelope, which then was sealed with candle wax and then stamped with a mark of a letter. This letter was a D which referenced to the Divine comedy which was what we bassed our exhibition around.

When reading the letter or the summons it reads quite daunting and disturbing in the way that the words lead you in, but it works so well into our exhibition. If you cannot make out from the image above its stats …

 Dear Holly

We regret to inform you that you have been summons to attend a meeting with the inferno beginnings of the ninth circle. Your appointment is for the Tuesday, 18th November and you can find your way to our quarters underneath a non-advertised location on wind Street it has no sign and it is in a rather distinguished building with a history imeared with sinful spirits.

We hope to see you in the abyss

Sincerely

 

Feted of aid  (which is another name of the devil)