UTOPIAN CITIES EXHIBITION
You may have noticed in a previous post that I uploaded a submission form and guidelines. This was due to an exhibition event which I was part of.
The exhibition was surrounding the theme of ‘Utopian Cities’ but I think the great thing which our group explored, was what Utopian cities meant to people; and find their point of view, rather than the stereotypical futuristic stuff that you constantly are subjected to.
In the exhibition featured 2 interactive installations, a video and posters complimenting the subject matter.
Here are uploaded pics I took on my camera phone, sorry if the quality is bad!! (+ I’ve just checked the preview and unfortunately wordpress has rotated some of the images which are originally in portrait, to landscape so I’m sorry if you guys have to crank your head 90 degrees sometimes.)
Linear Notes:
1-5: The exhibition space.
Acquire Arts in Vauxhall, South London.
6-50: Upper floor.
Here the 2 installations were laid out as well as posters including the Guideline submission that I designed.
The installations featured an interaction with the question. The one question (images 22-25) asked the audience what is their life like right now. Image 20 coincides with the answers and to compliment that it asks what is their ideal world like.
50a-52: Stairs leading downstairs.
We made use of the stairs and added painted footprints on notes symbolizing that money isn’t a real matter in Utopian society.
53-61: Lower floor.
Feautured more more posters and a video created by one of the group members.
Personal Notes:
For the group, I produced one of the installations (26-50), guideline submission poster set and an A2 poster
(I actually knocked up the poster in a night which I am proud of. It’s type based and utilises the concept of seeing things from far way; but they are indeed close. I’m glad that we got to add this feature into the exhibition).
The installation I created was mounted on 2 nails and all posters were mounted via a mixture of heavy duty double sided tape and velcro.
Myself and the 2 members of the group sat down and discussed where the work would go and I took it upon myself to design it more clearer. I also added the feature of adding annotations to where the lighting is placed and furthermore the stripping (and combining) of the lighting and layout into separate parts for easier understanding.
Acquire Arts – Lighting and Layout
For further reading on the group dynamics, I’ve written an evaluation on each of group dynamics which will be available soon.
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