The Private View

Collaborate - sit and type

Human barbie

The Event

Tasha D'Aquiar's room - Spoken Encounters

Philip Morris and David Dunnet - Colour type 1 and chair

Natasha Cox - The Private View

Sophie Noonan - Performance set up

David Dunnet

David Dunnet’s piece - the altered readymade ‘Colour Type #1’ - a typewriter which prints in abstract coloured forms. The work investigates the coding of meaning between one system of marks and another by translating from the language of written words to that of colour. The viewer becomes implicated in the act of translation by using the typewriter and is asked to consider the relationship between the separate modes of communication. David is collaborating with Philip Morris by bringing together two complementary works which explore the audience’s relation to often unquestioned aspects of everyday life through participation.

Philip Morris

By constructing a chair from wood found in a half-mile radius around his home in South London, Philip Morris attempts to explore the limitations of found materials, juxtaposing the consistency of chair structure with the inconsistency of material.

Final design of Philips core fundamental bone structure.

n refiguring the wood he invites the public to question the beauty and functional limitation of discarded material deemed to be worthless by society. The user is asked to consider their negative relationship to waste by sitting in the chair – the work can only be realized through the contribution of the viewer

Philip’s work doubly fulfills its function by allowing access to David Dunnet’s piece.Philip’s practice confronts ideas of failure and functionalitywhilst, David is interested in the use of translation as a tool for critiquing accepted systems.

Natasha Cox

Natasha Cox will be investigating the participation of the ‘private view’ as an event.

The private view only invites a certain amount of interaction and demands we behave in a particular fashion. How do we interact /engage with each other and art works.

What unnoticed action take place at these events. Does anyone actually look at the work? What do people really talk about?

Anne de Vries
"By creating staged images with common everyday objects and removing them from their original context and stylizing it ,the artificiality of the mundane gets emphasized. The private view is a performance and the ones who attend are the performers."

Erwing Goffman explains we must look at the world through a frame, everything is performed, and this is expressed in these photographs.