Threads

Project outline

Project IV

Threads

'….even the marks of the typewriter, so different from the smoth, bland product of my word processor – they seem so ...old fashioned.

I think about the significance of these marks , of the pen and the typewriter, of the official and the personal. None seem quite righto to be carrying the weight of these stories. They do not sit upon the surface of our lives, are not written upon uus as much as they are embedded in us, part of the grain of us, so to speak. Oral histories so often bypass the written word;

They are snug, recited,drawn in dust upon the ground, passed into social currency through the agency of thread.'

Anne Brennan (artist)

Craft and Contemporary theory, Edited by Sue Rowley, Allen and unwin 1997

Using the theme of 'threads' you are asked to make an interactive sculptural work. You will need to link this conceptually to the overarching body of work so

What are threads?

How might you work with that idea?

Are they real, physical threads, or metaphoric?

How can you make the sculpture interactive?

Who are the other participants?

What is their role ?

Use mudmapping and brainstorming to work through some of your ideas in your visual diary. There are many different ways to approach this kind of work

Materials; will be appropriate and specific to you individual concept

Scale; you will need to consider how you want to install this work and how it might be realised on completion. To a great degree, the scale will be relative to this work.

Installation ; Try to work it flexibly so that you have a number of potential installation stragegies that may fit the space you have to give it in the end.

Technique ; 'interactive' work invites input from a number of other people . As the artist, it is your job to carry the vision and the concept so you can use their contributions to bring together to make a whole work. You will need to think about the target group and develop a way to engage them with your idea so that they will bother to invest time and energy.