Planning our exhibition

Name/slogan/phrase of collective: White Blemish(es) Members and tutor of collective: Claudia Minchella, Hayley Darbyshire, Alisha Ward Gill Addison Description of plan: We aim to create a white environment that successfully incorporates our methods of working and thinking; emphasising the importance of writing and reading. Whether we discard or savor said information, it resonates with us. The floor will be scattered in crumbled balls of notes and research dipped in plaster, and plaster casts of crumpled paper balls. The viewer may, or may not be involved in the breaking of these ‘casts’ by curiously moving closer towards the performance that will be occurring at the back corner of the room; optionally making a path to the back, or stepping on the sculptures, either breaking work or revealing our research. Currently this performance involves one of us, in shifts, facing the wall and writing down the words we hear of the viewer; relevant to the art or not. This will occur on a type-writer, or pen and paper, both possessing a sound that will echo in the space and attract the viewer to take a closer look at the work, and make a path through the ‘mistaken sculptures’. Said writing will be either thrown over our shoulder to the rest of the work, or taped onto the wall in front. Space: DLG13: We need the room as we believe it is crucial to have a private space in which the viewer is free from any other distraction; no natural light, no other sounds. This is vital as we are focusing on something that lacks a voice; writing. The only voice it possesses is the voice of the technique chosen, i.e. the pressing of the typewriter, the scratching of a pen. We aim to make the viewer aware of their own voice, far more than anywhere else in the exhibition. Therefore we require an enclosed space. The alternative space we have chosen is the morgue. We definitely do not want to be in the triangle space, BG01 or BG02 as we feel it would completely undermine what we are trying to achieve: quiet contemplation. Power: We are happy with the power available in DLG13 as the artificial lighting works well, and has the facilities to allow added lighting if we want to emphasise certain areas, and detracts from others.