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pack is an ongoing work, started in 2003, owing as much to Lego
and Ikea as to post-minimal and conceptual art. To date there have been
installations, photographs, videos, interactive performance and mail art
projects. Click on the images below to see examples of the works. |
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In
June and July 2006 Brian McClave,
Dave Smith and I made a series of flat pack timelapse videos with residents
of Compton Road, Brighton for the Compton
Skyline Project. Click on the following links to view each of the videos:
# 56 / # 61 / #
66 / # 72 / # 76 / #
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build!
dismantle! repeat!
between 10th and 14th May 2006 all 1200, or thereabouts, flat pack one modules
were left on the floor of the Permanent
Gallery, Brighton. Over five days visitors to the gallery were able
to build, dismantle, rebuild, reconstruct and deconstruct whatever was there. |
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flat
pack one
comprises of 1200 manufactured plastic modules that allow unique structures
to be created each time they are used. The structures are intended as proposals
as opposed to finished autonomous art works. Each one is just one example
of a multitude of structures that can be made by anyone. They exist in order
to allow an event, belonging to Fluxus notions of play and self-sufficiency
of the audience, to take place. The distinction between artist and audience
is blurred. There is an exchange that must take place, not in the monetary
sense of commodity but an exchange of actions and time, the sharing of a
space and an experience. |
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interactive
flat pack construction
event that took place as part of stance, a day of performance and live art
at Market Gallery, Glasgow
in July 2005 |
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digital
images of flat pack one |
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flat
pack two (2005 until to who knows when...) is 48 sets of 48 cardboard
modules packaged like a toy and posted to friends and artists around the
world offering an ephemeral and intimate flat pack experience. Participants
are sending me visual documentation of their constructions which I am posting
here. There will also be CD catalogue (or book or poster, keep changing
my mind!) sent out to all participants at a some point in the future. |
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flat
pack three was
a box of corrugated cardboard modules sent as part of a mail art project
- States of Union? - organised by Catalyst Arts in Belfast, 2005. |
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flat
pack four available
for download |
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paper
and card maquettes |
