As a group...
4/12: Visit the Met (we have arranged a discussion with the publications department). What did you take away from their process? What is important/essential for inclusion in any good exhibition catalogue? What is considered unique? Successful? What are some examples of inspirations you take away from this trip, which may or may not be of use for the IB catalogue? Each team member should have a sketchbook entry from the trip.
Web Team:
As a group...
4/12: Take a trip to the Whitney Biennial's WATCH AND LISTEN page and review the biennial videos. Please do a detailed review of the interviews with the artists and curators. Do you gain a good sense of the show and the goals for the Biennial? How do the videos contribute to your understanding of the vision for the Biennial and/or the work exhibited? What do you think works in the interviews? What is not as successful?
Research the documentation and interviews used for this exhibition: FEEDBACK
Not every project in the show has an interview. However, the video interviews (featured on the right side of the project pages) are very well done. Not all of the documentation is that amazing. Please do a detailed review of this exhibition's online archive (from the video and video documentation, to the project arrangement and descriptions, to the overall sense of the exhibition that you are able to glean from this site).
Compare the documentation and interviews above (their styles and functionality in terms of conveying information and process). What can you take away to incorporate into the IB documentation?
Exhibition Team:
As a group...
4/12: Go see the Paper Tiger exhibition at Fales Library (upstairs in Bobst). Survey the exhibition. Take notes on the how the work is presented. Do you come away knowing more about Paper Tiger and its history? Who were they? What did they do? Why? What are the key exhibition elements (videos, photos, journals, posters, etc.)? How is the information about Paper Tiger and its history provided (wall labels, didactic wall panels)? How is the work labeled (what is the content of a wall label)? What are the successful/inspirational elements of the exhibition that you would take away/modify for the IB exhibition? Each team member should have a sketchbook entry from the trip.
Adi Mucktar-Barnes
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Whitney’s Biennial 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders give an assortment of psa type interviews where they explain their process of picking artists. They talk about how they traveled tougher and really took the time to talk to each artist. While these videos were somewhat informative the curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders were not the most entertaining. It would have been great to see some of the work they did while they talked about it. One good aspect though was the multiple camera angles, which were a bit more engaging then one straight on shot. Also, the background was in and artist studio that they brought to the museum, and so it was filled with items I wanted to see rather then listening to them. I think it would have been better to have a plain background, so the focus is solely on them not the background or the person working behind them.
Andrew Masullo, Liz Deschenes and Michael Robinson’s artist statement videos were much more successful in my opinion. As the artist’s talked examples were shown of what they were talking about in their art. Andew Massullo talked mainly about his process and so the process of one painting in particular was recorded in full. Also, Deschenes as she talked about the mirror like qualities of here work they gave an example of it.
The artist statements were very good I think they were to the point engaging and not too long. Overall I liked the way all the videos started, the titles were very stylized and professional looking.
EYEBEAM
Flock House The video documentation of this project had great imagery and a good narrator but I think it could be shorter and get across the same Information. With that said it was very informative and convincing. Visualizing Marathon, Hit Me these were some other projects on the eyebeams website along with a bunch others I viewed. My overall take away was to get the person that’s being interviewed to be exited and compelling about what they are saying. I think it is also important that the videos stay short because the more successful ones were shorter, and the music should be themed towards the feel of the video not just like a music video. But yea, there are tons of videos on here so I can’t go through each individually but these represent the most important aspects I learned to incorporate.