I started this before i realised we didnt have to do a rationale, so yes 

AUDIENCES RATIONALE

 

When first starting audiences brief I was quite enthusiastic. I saw it as a good opportunity to investigate different ways of presenting my work. I have always been quite concerned when it comes to repsenting my work, as a lot of the time, I only realise the final piece a few days before having to exhibit. The outcome always being a badly presented final resolution, and all in all quite a disappointing exhibited work. I saw this brief as an opportunity to explore the work of other artists and ways in which they present their work, and how I could relate this to my own work.  

   At the beginning I feel I was enjoying and interested in the module. I really enjoyed visiting different art galleries, and focussing on how I was receiving the work as the audience, and why I was reading the work in certain ways. However as the module continued I found it very hard to consider how an audience viewed my own work, as for a long time, I didn’t have any work. It takes me a long time to make work. So I was falling behind in this module. I think it would have been better if we were allowed to focus on one part in particular, which is what was suggested at the beginning, e.g. Fixtures and fittings. Then it wouldn’t rely so much on the success of the practice and materialty brief to be successful. 

I am wondering what to do for my final piece. I was considering ways in which to exhibit, and thinking of how to repesent. I thought about exhibiting the cards, next to their result.. Lie the cards cast giraffe next to the cast of the giraffe. Thought I don’t really like this idea. I think it’s a bit boring. It might look nice though, and probably would look pro maybe, but I think its too bpring. Also it would seem strange to now at the end of a project based on chance, to have such a rational way of presenting, it doesn’t really fit.

 

I also thought about creating a game for the audience, as a performance piece, I could provide the audience with the cards, they could pick them and then do the actions. Though I think this is more about the interaction, and the ideas about fluxus than about randomness. Would the ideas of randomness come across?

 

Also I’ve made the other things down to chance, so I would like to stick with this idea for the final presentation/exhibition. Maybe I could create more cards to tell me what to do for the exhibition and final performance/piece?

 

Another thing that concerns me is that it isn’t going to be clear or seen what my point is… Though because it is about randomness and not making sense, then if people don’t get it, can’t see the connection, etc then that would be the point, and it would be a successful thing. I have been considering using the cards again for the final presentation, and following what they say, keeping with the ideas of chance dictating the work, and have realized that a lot of it is to do with belief. If the cards say to hang the print of the axe, then people will just see a hung print of an axe, without any knowledge of the process before, but me knowing and committing to the idea and having the confidence to do something like that even thugh people may not get it is important. 

Games?

As i have been making cards, and performing the instructions generated by the cards, and chance, one of the most obvious things that springs to mind is to make work interactive. Cards are meant to be played with, and so displaying them, so people are unable to touch them and interact with them, takes away from what they actually are. Could i invite the audience to play with the cards? The audience could do what i have been doing, and perform the random actions? i could provide the equipment/ways to record? or nt ways to record, they could just be undocumented events? Then it could become even more random, as i am not in control of the way the audience may try to rationalise the two random words to create something.. OR would people say... but these don't make sense? but then still wouldnt that be successful because it doesnt make sense? there is no connection between the cards, and any combination could be drawn from the decks?