At college, each Monday and Thursday morning time is set aside for two people in the class to display work in the "seminar space" (ie. a small room/gallery space in the college). On Monday Caroline and Saskia has built this huge installation/shrine in the space, hundreds of flowers, toys, bones, colours surrounding a red bicycle with a bisons skull which. Being inside the installation was really claustrophobic as you had to crawl through the space between the objects and the ceiling was lowered with shawls etc. The whole experience was quite overwhelming and it was really well done.
So It was Laura and I's turn on Thursday to do something with the space and how were we supposed to follow that?? We couldn't compete with it so we decided to have nothing in the space, to make it completely empty. The floor of the space was filthy with dust and dirt and the remnants of previous installations so we decided to clean it. Really clean it. And cleaning away the top layer of black watered down paint and dirt revealed 100 years of marks and paint splodges.
We also polished the floor to make it slippery thereby changing the way you experienced and moved about the space. It became, as Faith put it, the worlds cheapest ice rink.
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