Haunch of Venison - November 2010

Every week i try to visit a gallery, so this week i went to the Haunch of Venison.
The exhibition in the West Galleries is Transmission, which features the work of three young artist from London. Adam Dix / Alex Hoda /Katie Paterson
The pieces by Adam Dix stood out to me because of the pastel colours and the 50's styled images. 

Transmission - 2009

For what we are about to receive - 2010 

In the East Galleries were Tom Wesselmann - Works 1958 - 2004

"Wesselmann is widely regarded as one of the leading figures of American Pop Art."

Driver - 2001

 

Smoker no.8 - 1973

Project 2 - Currency

"Show us the money"

For this brief, as a designer, we need to find a way to become involved in the flow of the money. The outcome of this piece is to create a piece that in some way engages with or provokes the existing landscape or currency. 

To begin this project we were given resources to look at and things to consider.

One of my favourite resources was "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Alusio". This book explores the different eating habits of people around the world and include portraits of the families, which they visited with their week's worth of shopping. 

When researching, I also came across "The Value of a Dollar" by Jonathan Blaustein., which shows the purchase power of a dollar. The idea of this project began, when one day he purchased 10 organic blueberries for a dollar. He was a little upset by this because 6 weeks earlier he bought 17 organic blueberries in Chile for the same price. 

Other areas, which i researched were airports, exchange rates, cost prices and coupons.

I also look at how prices vary from one country to another. For example the image below shoes the cost of a medium loaf of bread in the England and the cost of the same size loaf in America.

Some ideas, which i thought of were:

• How in Airports, people experience different emotions and you are able to put a cost to these emotions from the cost of a flight or traveling to the airport. E.g. Being put on the stand by list - The cost of uncertainty - £35.
• Fun things to do with left over coins from traveling. E.g. Give it to charity or make a gift.
• How you would you get a certain amount of goods in one country, but in a different country, you would get a different amount due to exchange rates and cost of living being different.

At the interim crit, it was suggested that i create a facebook group to find the prices from around the world of a global product. The purpose of this was to be able to see how the standard of living differed through pricing. 
Other resources i was told to look at were:

• The Big Mac Index
• 2600 The Hackers Quarterly
• Clay Shirky - Here comes everybody

White Night

Last Saturday in Brighton was White Night, which is a festival that takes place every year when the clocks go back. And once it hits 6pm, the city gets taken over with various things to do and see.

Some of the things i went to see included:

Antigravity by Steve Geliot, which involved a UFO being lifted into the night sky as projections were shown onto it and music played in the background.




As well as Ravens in Temple created by Fishtail Neon studios, which was a sequence of Ravens flying across Brighton Town Hall.