"In geography, Confluence is term used to describe the flowing together of two rivers or streams, but it can also mean the coming together of people and ideas. The Confluence programme aims to reflect the flowing together of the diverse disciplines and skills represented by Falmouth University and The University of Exeter and to bring together artists, students and members of the community with an engaging range of contemporary art projects.
For 2013 Confluence presented a curated programme of installations, interventions and participatory events exploring relationships between art, technology and the physical environment. Browse our archive of Confluence 2013 projects by invited artists including Thomson & Craighead, Stanza, Alex Murdin, Jamie Allen and Will Schrimshaw. "
- http://www.fxplus.ac.uk/enjoy/confluence-art-programme
That Group of People
We volunteered, well Charlotte Volunteered us to show at the Confluence Art Show, an annual event that couples the universities which share a campus here in Penryn. Comically we were named as Charlotte Fagg and That Group of People.
A meeting discussing possibilities:
A work examining themes of 'performance'
Ideas of voyeurism.
Critique of university?
Notions of performance
Deconstruct what is it as we go.
Through the rooms we will be trying to communicate 'ideas' for the exhibition.
Each idea will be stuck on the glass facing outwards, slowy blocking us out.
THE EXHIBITION
We booked out two equal but opposite glass fronted rooms in the Exchange, people could see in, we could see out but the two rooms couldn't see each other.
I was in one room and Sam, Charlotte and Graham were in the other, we decided to make a distinction between the years, me being first year, them second year. I was in the room labelled 'One' and they in 'Two'.
We planned to enter the room at 19:00 and leave at 21:00.
We aimed to communicate? Sometimes. We had a pile of paper, a desk, a chair, a pen and bluetac. We wrote what we thought the performance was about on the pieces of paper and stuck them on the glass, people could look in and I felt quite self conscious being along and knowing that they were in a group next door. I knocked on the wall between us, they knocked back, sometimes.
I also communicated with outside my room by passing paper under the door.
I left my room at 20:00 and looked at the other group, the agreement was to not leave before 21:00 and their response in seeing me sparked new questions, which they put up on their front.
"Is the performance still going on?"
"What does this mean for us?"
"Can we leave too?"
They didn't, they left at 21:00, but the action caused debate.
This was my first time 'performing' at an exhibition, I found it quite odd at first, but I soon became at ease with it and look forward to doing it again.
For 2013 Confluence presented a curated programme of installations, interventions and participatory events exploring relationships between art, technology and the physical environment. Browse our archive of Confluence 2013 projects by invited artists including Thomson & Craighead, Stanza, Alex Murdin, Jamie Allen and Will Schrimshaw. "
- http://www.fxplus.ac.uk/enjoy/confluence-art-programme
That Group of People
We volunteered, well Charlotte Volunteered us to show at the Confluence Art Show, an annual event that couples the universities which share a campus here in Penryn. Comically we were named as Charlotte Fagg and That Group of People.
A meeting discussing possibilities:
A work examining themes of 'performance'
Ideas of voyeurism.
Critique of university?
Notions of performance
Deconstruct what is it as we go.
Through the rooms we will be trying to communicate 'ideas' for the exhibition.
Each idea will be stuck on the glass facing outwards, slowy blocking us out.
THE EXHIBITION
We booked out two equal but opposite glass fronted rooms in the Exchange, people could see in, we could see out but the two rooms couldn't see each other.
I was in one room and Sam, Charlotte and Graham were in the other, we decided to make a distinction between the years, me being first year, them second year. I was in the room labelled 'One' and they in 'Two'.
We planned to enter the room at 19:00 and leave at 21:00.
We aimed to communicate? Sometimes. We had a pile of paper, a desk, a chair, a pen and bluetac. We wrote what we thought the performance was about on the pieces of paper and stuck them on the glass, people could look in and I felt quite self conscious being along and knowing that they were in a group next door. I knocked on the wall between us, they knocked back, sometimes.
I also communicated with outside my room by passing paper under the door.
I left my room at 20:00 and looked at the other group, the agreement was to not leave before 21:00 and their response in seeing me sparked new questions, which they put up on their front.
"Is the performance still going on?"
"What does this mean for us?"
"Can we leave too?"
They didn't, they left at 21:00, but the action caused debate.
This was my first time 'performing' at an exhibition, I found it quite odd at first, but I soon became at ease with it and look forward to doing it again.