Transvoyeur
Programme 2007 - 2009
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Transvoyeur: Gender, Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot
Scheme), Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme,
Liverpool Screening.
>> 2009.
A project conceived and curated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Two artists from Liverpool (UK), Daiva Guaryte, and
New York (US), Kofi Fosu Forson, have been selected
to participate in the following pilot scheme of an online
collaborative and curatorial research project of culture
and creativity in the context of art and urban environment.
The first theme set is titled 'Gender, Space, Art and
Architecture' and forms the pilot scheme of specific
tailored projects set. This has been screened in late
2007 at MediaNoche Gallery (PRDreams) in New York (US)
by the associate Curator to the programme, Judith Escalona.
This is due to be shown in Liverpool (UK) 2008 and proposed
for submission to the BBC Big Screen in 2009.
Curator/Projects
Co-ordinator: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Artists: Daiva Guaryte (Liverpool, UK) and Kofi Fosu
Forson (New York, US).
Associate Curator to Programme: Judith Escalona, MediaNoche
of PRDreams.
June
- August 2007
A project conceived and curated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Two artists from Liverpool (UK) and New York (US) have
been selected to participate in the following pilot
scheme of an online collaborative and curatorial research
project of culture and creativity in the context of
art and urban environment. The first theme set is titled
'Gender, Space, Art and Architecture' and forms the
pilot scheme of specific tailored projects set between
artists through Transvoyeur. To commence 25 June 2007
and then each consecutive week.
The
artists selected are Kofi Fosu (New York, US) and Davia
Gaurytre (Liverpool, UK).
Artists:
Liverpool and New York (Select for artists).
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Gender,
Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot Scheme).
Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007.
Programme Curator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
12 June 2007.
Two
artists have been selected to participate in the following
pilot scheme of an online collaborative and curatorial
research project of culture and creativity in the context
of art and urban environment. The first theme set is
titled 'Gender, Space, Art and Architecture' and forms
the pilot scheme of specific tailored projects set between
artists through Transvoyeur.
This
is a ten week programme and scheduled to commence 25
June 2007. Further updates to follow and artists names
announced.
Programme Brief
This programme explores the issues of gender in the
concept of art and architecture. To analyse the theoretical
and multi-disciplinary approaches of gender in relation
to particular architectural sites, ideas and projects
of how space is defined by gender practices, power and
vision, masculinity and femininity and different parameters
of spatiality, including cyberspace, as well as the
physical world of various architecture and the human
body.
This project will evolve from the selection and introduction
of two artists in different cities and countries, i.e.,
Liverpool and New York.
The
exchange and dialogue will be via emailed and these
communications published onto www.transvoyeur.com
and associate web platforms.
All notes compiled, dialogue exchanged and art produced
is to be scanned and/or photographed for jpeg format
to be presented on the website.
The final stage of this project will be to exhibit the
outcomes of this in a gallery context.
Through the exchange of the selected artists to this
programme, each are to include in the email transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
These communications will periodically each week be
published onto www.transvoyeur.co.uk,
along with attachments of images of art researched.
Schedule
for Programme
Week
(1): Introduction of Artists.
Introduction of each other and independent art practice.
Summarise and explain your influences of gender politics
in your independent practice. How does inform and shape
your practice?
How do you capture, represent and communicate the subject
of gender politics in your work?
Select an art image (reproduction, jpeg) of your work,
which relates to gender and space in an architectural
context.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(2): Awareness and Expression of Space.
Write a descriptive analysis of a space specific to
your gender experience. The purpose, function and rationale
of the delineated space and the restrictions imposed
and experienced.
From this analogy of a chosen space, produce a visual
representation in your independent practice, whether
painting, drawing, etc..
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, includingtransvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(3): Exchange of Cultural Perception.
Exchange the images produced on the previous research
project of space to gender experience.
Modify the surface of your co-artists work. On completion,
analyse the changes your have made and explain the reasons
for the transformation, considering the aesthetics of
the composition and your conceptual reasons.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(4): Art, Architecture and Gender.
Write a list of issues you believe relate to your own
experiences of gender in architectural and art practice
and theory.
Exchange your lists and find similarity and differences
in the lists? Divide the comparative lists into three
headings of ‘Feminine’, ‘Masculine’
and ‘Communal’. You will realise the subdivision
by those itemised point that are definitively relative
to either gender and the ones equivalent under the ‘Communal’
heading.
i.e., Feminine, Masculine, Communal.
Refer to the lists compiled and as an influence produce
three sketches in independent practice.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(5): Societal Semiotics and Urban Environment.
In the urban space you live, as a resident and an artist,
find locations that relate to the following terms:
- Social Construction of Gender.
- Domestic Architecture and Femininity.
- Gender, Power and Access in Public Space.
- Patronage and Power in the Public Realm.
- Femininity and Semiotics in Architecture.
- Masculinity and Semiotics in Architecture.
- Spaces of Colonialism/Post-colonialism and Gender.
Write a list of each of these places under the above
sub-headings.
Produce a series of studies for each architectural site
your select relative to the above list. These should
be spontaneous studies to capture your immediate experience
of the selected spaces.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(6): Identity and Belonging.
Select a space in the city you are based that you are
most comfortable or frequent.
Create a self-portrait of yourself in this space and
capture in the representation the essence of how this
place makes you feel.
Write a short statement for your reasons to the space
chosen and explain the choice of media and mode of expression.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(7): Review of Concept of Spatiality in Cultural
Exchange.
Write an evaluation of what you have learned and realised
from the exchange with the other artist and the outcomes
of the research explored on the subject of gender, architecture
and art.
Analyse the process of exchange of cyberspace of the
net and write how this has influences the creative process.
From your studies and art produced in the previous weeks,
create one more piece of work, which embodies the concepts
of your environment explored, but how the temporal experience
of exchange has been realised through cyberspace?
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art
and email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(8): Process and Media: Displacement, Space
and Identity/Review and Evaluation by Artists.
Week
(8) is two fold with the final exchange on the subject
of displacement, space and identity explored in the
constructs of process and media. On conclusion of this,
they are to re-address and evaluate their roles in the
programme and produce a review of their experiences
and what they have realised.
Process
and Media: Displacement, Space and Identity.
This final proposition for the artists is posed, as
both have a common factor in the way both are originally
from outside they place they reside. Fosu family heritage
is from Ghana and now in New York (US), while Gauryte
is from Lithuania and currently based in Liverpool (UK).
Through the weeks of the cultural exchange, the artists
have considered themselves as creative practitioners
and residents in the place they live. From cultural
tourism, commodification of art an culture and urban
development each artist are to explore the idea of displacement,
economic stratification, class division, the effects
of global interactions and local resistances, immigration
and emigration, nostalgia and memorials of their own
memories and residues of cultural artifact, how these
are communicated (semiotics and processes by signs,
symbols, media, architecture and technology) and to
describe their own feelings of encountering them.
The artists are investigate their parameters of difference
and similarity in the model and constructs posed and
significantly to that of displacement and how through
hybridity new concepts by experience, transition, fusion
and exchange evolve into modes of thinking and expression.
To write the final consolidation of this and do one
image spontaneously to communicate the subject of displacement
in culture.
Review
and Evaluation by Artists.
On conclusion of the artists collaborative exchange
between Liverpool (UK) and New York (US) they are each
to review and evaluate their involvement. To consider
the following:
- Can you please consider what your standpoint was at
the onset?
- What you have realised creatively in your practices
and theoretically in your ideologies? From each other
and the programme?
- What is your overall conclusion to the exchange?
- What do your perceive as the strengths and weaknesses
to the exchange programme?
- What do you think you take away by this experience
of exchange on a set programme?
Select a piece of your colleague’s work and text
that most inspired you and explain why?
(From
this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and email
images and text as attachments to the respective artist,
including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(9): The Gallery Space: Liverpool and New York/Transvoyeur
Artists Web Portfolio.
The research culminated from the exchange of creative
practice and dialogue by the Liverpool (UK) and New
York (US) artists will be accessible through the combined
media of digital video and Powerpoint, where members
of public can view in the spatiality of a gallery context
in Liverpool and New York and further online at www.transvoyeur.com.
Week
(10): Review and Evaluation by Programme Management.
Review and evaluation of programme by Gaynor Evelyn
Sweeney (UK Projects Co-ordinator/Curator).
Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
- UK Projects Co-ordinator, Transvoyeur.
- Programme Curator for Gender, Space, Art and Architecture.
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
Website: www.transvoyeur.com.
