Collaboration:
Overall, I feel as if collaboration this year has worked very well, through the duration of our project our varieties of background information and skills has helped us to learn off of each other, through discussions and talking through processes. This is down to a lot of communication between Tess and I, whether this is on our online Facebook Group, where we can share and research files, or through our constant evaluation of research we have collected. Through working together we have enabled each other to step outside of our comfort zones within our practice, focusing on experimentation and not final product has therefore allowed us to come up with something new to our practice. However we did find time management hard to keep on top of due to Tess and mine extra-curricular commitments, so in some ways we could have managed time on some of the events better for example through publicity for the Facebookaholics Anonymous meeting.
Screenshot of Facebookaholics Facebook Group
Practice:
Experimentation:
Throughout our practice we have been experimenting with different mediums for documentation, looking into sound, video and photography. This also lead us into researching and developing our own forms and disclaimers for these. Alongside this we had to research into publicity of our events, and how other organisations would proceed with this. Creating our own brand, ethos and logo’s for Facebookaholics. The project’s process began at extensive research completed in a short time scale, which lead to planned events, thinking about these events we created the concept of Fa. This allowed us to carry out 2 public performance events, through fake narrative.
Practice:
The main development that happened within our practice was from our initial idea that the documentation we recieved would be the work. It was after our tutorial with Bryony Gillard, we were able to question our intentions through the project and how serious we wanted the project to be. This moved our practice from looking at social sculpture to exploring fake narrative. We began to develop the idea of founding the organisation Facebookaholics, this could be explored further by creating a website.
Research:
Before beginning our events we made sure to do extensive research into relevant artists, psychology and social theory. We did this by allocating different areas of research, posting these to the Facebook group for reference, and coming together to discuss what we had found, this created a strong understanding between us. We feel as if we should have researched further into performance art and public art, yet we were conscious of not focusing too much on research to practice, a process we usually use.
Artist As Curator 