Rationale:

The Out There module has been a huge learning curve for me, i have learnt a lot! Having to organise, set up and produce work for this exhibition show has given me a great experience in understanding how much work and development is evolved in putting together a public show. It was a good idea to separate the class into certain groups to set up the show as communication doesnt always go smoothly and having so many artists all working together would have been much tricker to get everything equally organised!

I have been working as part of the marketing group, i chose to be in this group as i was really interested to find out more about what was involved in advertising and making the public aware of our upcoming show. I attended most meetings and felt comfortable within the group to voice my opinions and my group had so many great ideas, everyone came up with so many ideas for advertising the show, someone had the idea of printing the show logo onto balloons, using the lazer cutter to produce key rings and various other ideas, but we soon realised that with our time scale and funds we would have to come up with cheaper means! I got in to contact with the Leeds Met student radio station to see if we where able to get slot to advertise our show... unfortunately i got turned down. After everyone agreeing on a name for the show more ideas began to flow and the idea of having some form a lost property box stuck, it's a great way to give away 'free bees' and advertise all our work, this idea fits in so well with the whole concept of the show as everyone's work is very different and there is no one continued theme throughout the show meaning that the objects in the box will be all random, each different and individual in its own way just like our show.

Once the posters had been delivered we all did our bit to post them up around Leeds, I put some in Brudenell Social Club, Royal Park Pub, and Nation of Shopkeepers .We also put some flyers and labels with the logos on in college and some small locations such as bars/cafes. Fingers crossed we'll get a good turn out. We also put some flyers and labels with the logos on in college and some small locations, I put some in a small cafe by call lane.

We are still to see how successful the show will actually be, I have hope in that everyone has worked well together and put a considerable amount of effort in. I have enjoyed working as a team and I really feel that it has brought the class together.

Posters

Poster's are here and up and about!

Glasgow

Visited Scotland for the first time ever! Was super. Visited the Goma in Glasgow.

The building itself was deceiving, i wasn't expecting the layout it had. It was very spacious and each room had relevant art work that all seem to have some form of connection.

This is a good idea on terms of curating our own show- might be a good idea to find out what peoples ideas are for the final and see if we can have a some sort of relevance to each room. Will be hard as I think that everyone's work is very individual.

This was the entrance with one installation film playing with a seating area for the viewer to sit and watch. I really liked this piece, it had a smaller projection playing over the top playing the same piece of footage just at up close and on a different timing to the large scaled video.

Project Space Leeds

Visited Project Space Leeds, SliceLand today.

This was a fun exhibition, one of the rooms was full of work which was intended and designed to be interacted with. I was hesitant at first but then soon joined in! This gave me a clearer picture of how we could get actually get the show together without it being a complete shambles. The thought of having to put together and produce work for a public show is quite daunting for me. I have faith that we can pull it off though. Honest.

Tate

I visited the Tate Modern today, not sure whether it's because I've been to the Tate regularly since my school years but I just don't seem to get excited about the place any more, I usually find myself stuck on the floor without any escalators and viewing the work that has been hung there for the past year. However saying that, I do appreciate the new exhibitions that they regularly show. The Tate Modern is a brilliant art institution but I think that some of the exhibition spaces could be used more wisely and re-new some of the public spaces.

(Raoul Hausmann, Elacticum)

Robin Hood Country

I Visited the new gallery space in Nottingham; Nottingham Contemporary.

The building was designed by Caruso St John. It's a bold structure and I thought that the building appears bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside.

STAR CITY

The main concept behind this exhibition was the thought of 'what do we see when we look to the future? A world ravaged by climate change? Wars fought over water? A planet of slums surrounded gated communities? The world's poorest nations deep in debt? With little to look forward to the future seems to have lost its allure'.

(Aleksandra Mir, The Dream and the Promise,)

(Jane & Louise Wilson, Star City 4 channel Video installation with sound.) This piece was set up really well with 4 different large scale screens and sound.

(Diango Hernandez, Inspire me, again)

(Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowska, Mother, Earth, Sister, Moon) This was an interactive piece, you could walk around inside the space suit and sit in the centre of the space suits helmet and from a window view from the floor above, you can see the whole of the layout and the scale of the piece.

The gallery had a spacious shop which you had to go through on entry and exit from the exhibition which is a tactical way of promoting other up-coming exhibitions and shows and buy making a profit from sales of books and products.