Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Ideas from last Friday, discussion with all our cloths of thoughts at Art Council London, 27th December 2009

How do we want Figure Ground to be? What do we want it to do?


Summary

We need to keep it simple

There is a will to make things happen

Further days to develop in 2010

Starting with a picnic for all spring 2010

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Exposing your own processes to others

Exposed to other peoples processes

Fire

Other peoples’ process

We and the local

Creative generosity

To test

Provocative

Process not product

it is the meeting that counts - not constructing an institution

Time and space to have fun and be together

Water

Vague pin

Challenge parameters and definitions of public art

Discussion beyond artists – not just artists

Space to rejuvenate

Town as grey canvas

Umbrella needs anchor

Artists taking control, as awareness campaign

Adopting social work

Not admin/boring things

Questions not answers

Manifesto – structure

Continuity

Earth

Practical

Support

Initiating

Repeat

Breakdown barriers

Time to talk

Money to play

Remove politics

We want others to invite us

State of mind not institution

Invitations to play

Situations to play

Calling people to play

Nebulous

State of mind

Having a clean slate

No legacy

No history

Air

Repeat annual

Taking to different place

Creating network

Revisiting people

Value and sustain focus

Not so much an endpoint

Document process – this is practise led research – contributing to current knowledge

What we learn on the way rather than being its’ own

Let it grow, flow

Grow into its’ own thing

Physically meeting

Commitment to

Picnic next spring

(details to follow)

to share names and who came from where.

to develop further occasions in 2010

Those there all made various commitments to help carry this project forward.

Katy, Jon and myself are meeting up soon and will be in touch.

Our promise to develop a tool kit – information of how... from the evaluation of the project so far

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