Summary of our meeting in which we tried to pin down our intentions:
- Participation - all agree we want to involve visitors.
- Script of some kind for participants - all agree.
- Much discussion on Sol LeWitt. Some of group keen on reproducing one of his wall drawings. Others did not feel this was sufficiently 'original', so we dropped this idea.
- Group process - we agreed we all need to be in favour of an idea to progress it.
- Drawing surface - use window.
- Create grid using tape on window - masking tape, electrical tape, use of colours? Grid will create boundaries for visitors to draw within. Grid could be asymmetric, does not have to be uniform.
- Design drawing instructions. These are about putting parameters around the drawing e.g. do your best writing with your other hand, draw with your hand tied together with one other person.
- Drawing instructions - do they need to be thematically linked? My personal view (TS) is a very strong yes, that there needs to be a link to give the piece coherence e.g. drawing with constraints imposed. Not everyone agreed with this, and thought we should use random instructions.
- A game of chance - we got quite excited about idea of turning this into a game, so visitors would select their drawing instruction by e.g. throwing a dice. In that case there would be 6 instructions. Make a huge dice!
Tracey
Tracey if we can make the dice we could have two so then there would be twelve instruction and the participant could choose the dice at random. I think some of the rules we came up with at the last meeting were really good I have a few more. We will have to put them all together in the next week.
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