Flyers

The curatorial team spent time discussing with Take A Part and the external agencies involved in the Barne Barton Loves Art exhibition, discussing how we wanted the flyer to look and how we could then distribute these flyers to the community and city center alongside social media. it was organised that the flyers would need to be done early in order for them to be distributed within Barne Barton and placed into the children’s book bags within the Riverside School in hope to reach a wide audience and engage the community in the event.

After further negotiation with Kim and Gem on the content and information that would need to be present on the flyer such as relevant logo’s and elements of the exhibition. I then worked on designing a flyer which would work alongside the flyer that Kath had previously created for the Bonkers bunting. We discussed that we felt that text and themes should be consistent throughout the continuation of the marketing within the project. After completing the flyer I first discussed it with the rest of the curatorial team before sending it to Kim and gem for further approval, it was at this point that Kim and Gem mentioned that it could be with being a little more family friendly. In order to achieve this I emphasized the children’s entertainment and other aspects to draw in the community and allow them to engage with the arts. This was very different to how we initially thought it would look but we knew that that format would work with the archival show and not so much for the exhibition at Tamar View. After this realisation we amended the Flyer and emailed it both to Pat Patel for his social media and to Take a Part, after final approval it was ready for printing.

 

Barne Barton Loves Art, Tamar View Community Complex exhibition flyer

 

Concept

It began from an interest in social media identity, after discussion we decided we both were focusing in on Facebook.

 

We created the idea of holding public events as performances around raising awareness of the construction of identity. During the process of planning these events we realized there needed more depth for it to be performance and have public interaction. The branding made it appear more serious and professional therefore enhancing the fake narrative. After speaking to Bryony it made us question our involvement in the events.

 

After extensive research into relevant artists, social theory and collaboration we developed the concept of founding the organization Facebookaholics. Which would be used as the branding throughout our event’s and therefore become a large part of our work. This enabled us to be professional and take performances seriously, presenting ourselves as founders of the organization.

 

We found it important to construct an ethos for our organization which setout the organizations values and intentions. The projects use of continuous fake narrative relates back to mine and Tess’ previous practice. We planned events to be held as part of research and pilot scheme to further develop the work and construction of Facebookaholics.