Evaluation: Home Exhibitions - Working From Home.

Fig. a Final Submission for Home exhibition Artwork.

When I looked into the home exhibition, the obvious place to start was with Hans Ulrich Obrist and his Kitchen Series (1991) [1]Fig. 1.

I immediately felt license to look around my own home as to how I was going to engage with the unusual or other ways of seeing. Did i have a bookshelf with graduated colours across the spines or was there a contrast of design that brought about the strange and unusual?

What did I have “To hand” that would in some way help me find ways to ‘present’ something that a viewer can engage with inside of a setting that, to quote Orbrist In an “unspectacular setting” [2]

Fig. 1 Hans Ulrich Obrist, ‘The Kitchen Show 1991 Copyright of Hans Ulrich Obrist.

What didn’t work for me was how I tried to hard to think like a curator. It is evident at this stage that I am not one, but that hasn’t stopped be taking on considerations and trying to think like one. I did a lot of reading from this book by Claire Bishop

Fig. 2 Installation Art by Claire Bishop

Comparing methodologies to both Bishop’s write ups to how large scale installations take on the institutional hurdles of backing, finance and expectation, Orbrist brings us to consider minimal resource and the way that can be responded to in real time. Sometimes the limits of financial constraint (Orbrist was a student at the time of `kitchen Show in 1991), can sharpen the focus to deal with the objects to hand and their relationships with one another, rather than seeing finance as a way circumnavigating any obstacles from a socially conditioned point of view. This led me to seeing a carrier bag as a screen for my main contrast. also the imperfection of the bag only ‘acting as a screen’, with all its crinkles and creases, rises and bumps. I really think this has worked well in the context of finding ways to to think about how to plug in the projector and deal with the cabling. the aesthetics of the set up as well as the produced result. All of these considerations that took part in “unspectacular settings” brought about a little event that I could say had spectacular moments.

[1] Hans Ulrich Obrist, ‘The Kitchen Show’ <https://waysofcurating.withgoogle.com/exhibition/the-kitchen-show> [accessed 10/10/2020]

[2] Ibid, <https://waysofcurating.withgoogle.com/exhibition/the-kitchen-show/media/5326791916912640> [accessed 10/10/2020]