Exhibition planning contributions
I have been taking part in various aspects of the Exhibition planning.
As well as helping out with general logistics, I am an active participant of the Design, Website, and Writing and Editorial Teams.
The Design Team met up a handful of times to discuss the general stylistic direction, talking colours, fonts, and general layout ideas.
We used this Miro board to exchange ideas and inspiration.
We set up a brief to propose home page designs for the website, so I provided a few design ideas based on the website’s framework and the discussions we’d had:
In the end the majority decided on the simple white on black design I shared.
To illustrate the animation ideas I had in mind for the homepage, I made this simple gif:
As part of the website team, I met with the MA students Julian Burgess and Nathan Adams to learn about how to customise their website to fit our design ideas.
I mostly helped out with styling and CSS, as well as getting people to send in information about their pieces to be integrated in the website.
We are on very good track with the website and am really happy about how it’s looking right now. It has been a truly collaborative effort and everyone’s contributions have enriched the site immensely.
The site isn’t finalised yet of course, but the progress has been awesome and I’m very proud of our work.
The positioning statement on the homepage was also drafted collaboratively in the Writing and Editorial Team, and it totally exceeded my expectations so very proud of that too. It is based on our re-contextualisation of the concept of Third Space, which I became interested in during my dissertation research and that others on the team also found very fascinating, finding that it resonated in a comprehensive way to almost all of the pieces we might possibly include in the exhibition, since it deals with the idea of a hybrid space of intervention which transcends binaries, refuting the traditional opposing notions of same and different.
Third Space is a postcolonial sociolinguistic theory of identity and community realised through language, narrative and education. Attributed to Homi K. Bhabha, Third Space Theory explores the hybridity of human beings within the social, cultural and historical.
Edward W. Soja offers a conceptualization of the same term within the social sciences and from a critical urban theory perspective, derived from the spatial trialectics of Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space and Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia.
In turn, more recently, Third Space has been used by media artist Randall Packer to represent the fusion of the physical (first space) and the remote (second space) into a networked hybrid place which, blurring the real and the virtual, can be inhabited by multiple remote users simultaneously or asynchronously (third space).
Because of all the strong references connecting this terms to different subjects and theories, we opted for Third ____ as our exhibition title, substituting ‘Space’ with ____ , thus simply implying the word and granting the title an open-endedness that might further free us from the limits of definition and direct reference.
Love the stylised version of the text that Ashley came up with and think it adds a lot of character to the show and the homepage.
Looking forward to wrapping the website in its final version and having all the artworks and artist info on the site.