Introducing the the Ed Ruscha exhibition

For our second session at the Southbank Centre we visited the just recently opened Ed Ruscha exhibition at the Hayward Gallery which is titled: Fifty Years of Painting and is a retrospective solely of his painting work for the last fifty years. 

We worked in small groups to select a cluster of paintings that we liked or were particularly drawn to and then we shared with the rest of the group our interpretations of the work, this sharing was recorded and you can view below. Also, at the end of the video the group ask some questions to the LA group.

Session 2 - a tour of the Ruscha exhibition from itsnotabadworld on Vimeo.

text message phrases

"Anonomous"

"How and why?"

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream..."

"She's a top banana"

"Changing over time"

"Monty you terrible c***" WithNail and I

London Artists meet

Today all the young artists from the four London schools met each other and Davina Drummond and Daniel Wallis at the South Bank Centre. As a way to get to know each we formed small groups and tried to find things that we had in common, for example music we like or food we dislike. Next we selected things that we had in common, which we found interesting and created slogans about them and wrote them on boards, with a statement on one side and a question on the other side of the board. The video below documents us getting to know each other through the process of creating the slogans.

Session 1 - Meet the artists from itsnotabadworld on Vimeo.

 

Project Introdcution

Artists Davina Drummond and Daniel Wallis will collaborate with 20 young people from north-, south-, east- and west-London to make a new piece of artwork to be projected on to the side of The Royal Festival Hall.

The piece will explore notions of locality in both London and L.A. where the group will be in contact with young people working at MOCA. Responding to the Hayward exhibition ‘Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting’ the group will use text as an active tool in engaging the viewer, encouraging passers-by at the launch event of their work to interact with it directly via mobile phone; viewers responses will appear within the projected work.

The artists will use a mobile phone as a hub of communication over the two months spent developing project. They will text and picture messaging ideas and thoughts to it to share, using it as a modern communal sketch-book. This phone will be displayed in The South Bank Centre’s Poetry Library as a way of archiving the development of an artwork produced by people separated by different locations.

It’s not a bad world is it? Is both the title of one of the Ed Rushca paintings on display and the inspirational question behind the new w