HOARD: Leeds City West 26/09/12
The year long Departure Foundation project I’m participating in HOARD: Towards an archaeology of the artist’s mind has recently moved from an empty warehouse in Birstall to an empty office in Leeds City West Office Park.
The move has meant that the chronological and aesthetic order I had established in the warehouse has had to be dismantled. Combined with the new space being much smaller, these circumstances have prompted a transition into a categorisation phase of my HOARD.
I’ve used material and previous function to categorise the rubbish into piles as follow:
1: Bin bags
2: Cardboard
3: Paper
4: Offcuts (paper)
5: Plastic packaging
6: Plastic & paper bags
7: Offcuts & rags
8: Offcuts (wood)
9: Feathers
10: Toilet roll middles
11: Card
12: Polystyrene packing chips
13: Exhibition material & artists’ cards (l-r):A3, A4, A4 long, A5, A6, A7, business cards
14: Production materials (miscellaneous)
15: Batteries
16: CDs
17: Receipts
18: Medical packaging
19: Medical leaflets
20: Water, juice and beer bottles
21: Wine bottles
22: Bottle tops, wine corks, coffee jars and food wrappers
23: Bags and clothing
We also held a symposium about the project to date and transition from warehouse to office space. We discussed my HOARD as an archive of the now in present tense. It is an archive of my art practice in 2012 and after this calendar year it will become, increasingly over time, a historical document of my art practice in 2012. The transition instigating the categorisation of my HOARD was likened to an audit or similar administrative process.
We discussed the new office space being like a museum vitrine with the large windows (compared to the warehouse with no windows and even more secluded. The new space is in a large office park complex with probably 50% occupancy currently although not much activity near our space.
There’s a plan to produce a book documenting the project and later on nearer the end of the project/year, a public event too.
More about HOARD: http://hoardexhibition.blogspot.co.uk/
