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
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