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Gaps in Archaeology
By: Alexander Stevenson
"The trials and tribulations of working with museums in Leicester". Or perhaps "the exhibition that never was, changed three times and then was again in a lasting but intangible sort of way"...read it, you'll understand...
Alexander Stevenson
Alexander Stevenson works with archives, collections and systems of knowledge and is obsessed with 'missing bits', inconsistencies and subjective interpretations. He is based in Nottingham but will be relocating to Glasgow within the next 6 months. His recent collaborative exhibition in a 600 year old parish church involved 2 metre high vinyl tattoos being integrated with the fabric of the building, and the congregation being photographed next to their favourite one.
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# 11 [25 June 2008]
To round up this rather rambling blog I will summarise, and thereby explain the title.
To begin with the project was rejected by the institutions that I had wanted to work with through a twist of fate, this was the project that never was.
It 'was again' when I realised that I had become set in my ways. I realised that I could produce everything that I wanted to do simply by talking to people and remaining independent.
It changed three times from palimpsests to audio guides in museums to a virtual gallery experience, and even then this doesn't cover the range of writings and other connections that the project created.
And this way of working, which I keep referring to as fluid, is the way that I intend to carry out future projects. Where the outcomes are not set and the work comes about from the way in which people chose to interact with you. Of course it is up to me to position my self in a way that people would want to interact with me, but I mean that unexpected things can come out of the tiniest slant on ideas that we all have in common.
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