Saturday, October 22, 2005
FAN
First Amendment: Neutrality
Wednesday 191005 – 211005
In response to the 2nd Year Photomedia Exhibition, Bleed To The Edge, a different exhibition was born by artists for the art-world. First Amendment: Neutrality is that exhibition. Opening simultaneously, the juxtaposition of the two exhibitions is to highlight to the art-world the differences between “produced” art and the manifestation of an artistic endeavour.
“Produced” art is the label we have placed upon the exercises that are falsely exhibited as an artist’s work. The work being presented as Bleed To The Edge is an ostentatious display of technical ability.
The COFA students worked to a fixed brief drawn together for the purposes of evaluation within the course. The parameters are clear in this intention of student evaluation.
A1 digital print:
Can use a medium/large format camera -
Can scan a high-resolution image -
Can use Photoshop to touchup image -
As the list continues the cost incurred by the student, or artist, grows also. A conservative estimate of the costs involved for one student is $196. One Roll of Film - $16. Film Development - $20. Digital Printing - $50. Mounting - $110. That brings the entire collection of A1 prints to just under $6000.
This scale is conservative because this is the basic necessity and prices would be in bulk. Optional costs that were not listed include: Multiple rolls of film, professional scanning, and printing colour test strips.
Perhaps one should also consider the university fees as cost incurred due to the free access to photographic equipment necessary and the free use of an exhibition space.
As a subversive political act a small number of artists have self-funded and self-organised a counter exhibition within the residence of the President of the Cofa Student’s Association (in his absence). The works have been self-initiated and are not being exhibited for the purposes of examination.
First Amendment: Neutrality has been from its very first concept a self-purporting venture. Everything about the exhibition, from its grassroots origin to its neo-political artworks, has been achieved by the work of individual emerging artists.
A number of artists contributing are a part of Three Words. The Three Words team is a body that aims to help the emersion of new artists and grassroots, low-budget, exhibition spaces.
We, as artists, believe that the existence of an exhibition such as this is an affirmation of the continued liveliness of Sydney’s art-world. Future artists DO NOT have to be produced from university courses.
Most importantly is the continued self-directed aim of an artistic endeavour that counters the financial draw of the commercial sector. Cezanne felt he imparted the scent of a scene in his work; the Dadaists challenged modernism; Warhol believed in art for art’s sake.
First Amendment: Neutrality is proposing just that. A set of amendments to the way, the method, that Cofa students approach art via the cold examination briefs and course outlines as dictated by a greater authority. First Amendment: Neutrality is a voice against instutionalized art.
Wednesday 191005 – 211005
In response to the 2nd Year Photomedia Exhibition, Bleed To The Edge, a different exhibition was born by artists for the art-world. First Amendment: Neutrality is that exhibition. Opening simultaneously, the juxtaposition of the two exhibitions is to highlight to the art-world the differences between “produced” art and the manifestation of an artistic endeavour.
“Produced” art is the label we have placed upon the exercises that are falsely exhibited as an artist’s work. The work being presented as Bleed To The Edge is an ostentatious display of technical ability.
The COFA students worked to a fixed brief drawn together for the purposes of evaluation within the course. The parameters are clear in this intention of student evaluation.
A1 digital print:
Can use a medium/large format camera -
Can scan a high-resolution image -
Can use Photoshop to touchup image -
As the list continues the cost incurred by the student, or artist, grows also. A conservative estimate of the costs involved for one student is $196. One Roll of Film - $16. Film Development - $20. Digital Printing - $50. Mounting - $110. That brings the entire collection of A1 prints to just under $6000.
This scale is conservative because this is the basic necessity and prices would be in bulk. Optional costs that were not listed include: Multiple rolls of film, professional scanning, and printing colour test strips.
Perhaps one should also consider the university fees as cost incurred due to the free access to photographic equipment necessary and the free use of an exhibition space.
As a subversive political act a small number of artists have self-funded and self-organised a counter exhibition within the residence of the President of the Cofa Student’s Association (in his absence). The works have been self-initiated and are not being exhibited for the purposes of examination.
First Amendment: Neutrality has been from its very first concept a self-purporting venture. Everything about the exhibition, from its grassroots origin to its neo-political artworks, has been achieved by the work of individual emerging artists.
A number of artists contributing are a part of Three Words. The Three Words team is a body that aims to help the emersion of new artists and grassroots, low-budget, exhibition spaces.
We, as artists, believe that the existence of an exhibition such as this is an affirmation of the continued liveliness of Sydney’s art-world. Future artists DO NOT have to be produced from university courses.
Most importantly is the continued self-directed aim of an artistic endeavour that counters the financial draw of the commercial sector. Cezanne felt he imparted the scent of a scene in his work; the Dadaists challenged modernism; Warhol believed in art for art’s sake.
First Amendment: Neutrality is proposing just that. A set of amendments to the way, the method, that Cofa students approach art via the cold examination briefs and course outlines as dictated by a greater authority. First Amendment: Neutrality is a voice against instutionalized art.
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