Chris Evans
As a cover lecture, we had Chris Evans. starting with a reading of "Dear Job Interview", which in summary was about the stress levels of the process and how it sets you up for failure. This inspired him to look at team work and how it defeats failure because of doing it for others and not just yourself. Creating work where he got artists to write their experiences and making collaborative paintings from those. This sparked an idea for my own work as most of the stuff I'm planning for the exhibition is labour intensive and could be done more efficiently with others involved.
One Way Karma
This project of his was to produce work for the individual, not the mass. Sent by fax machine to 10 various, some well known locations such as 10 Downing st and The Vatican, he aimed for high organisations to receive his work. Others included the benefit agency and he even placed it above an ash try to see that if it's not burnt then its deemed good enough. All of these locations offer some form of criticism and if they accept the work then he knows it was a success. This is a high level of experimentation and shows that he isn't afraid to go a step further to gain more.
One Way Karma
This project of his was to produce work for the individual, not the mass. Sent by fax machine to 10 various, some well known locations such as 10 Downing st and The Vatican, he aimed for high organisations to receive his work. Others included the benefit agency and he even placed it above an ash try to see that if it's not burnt then its deemed good enough. All of these locations offer some form of criticism and if they accept the work then he knows it was a success. This is a high level of experimentation and shows that he isn't afraid to go a step further to gain more.
Anonymous Philanthropist
This is one of my favourite pieces that he went though due the depth of the meaning and how it represents it successfully. The story behind this piece is that Evens commissioned a philanthropist to create a drawing expressing the facial expressions of their recipients, managing to overcome the fear of being exploited. This was then turned into a sculptural piece where one head faces outwards and in contrast the other inwards to show what the drawings intended. These were placed on high status banks in Rotterdam and these were chosen due to the act of the public going to retrieve money and the bank owning it as a philanthropic act. Even though the subject isn't what I'd usually research it was compelling to see how much background and knowledge had gone into making these sometimes unnoticeable pieces that most of the public won't understand due to their in depth meanings.
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