idea one.
"ether"
3. the upper regions of space; the clear sky; the heavens.
4. the medium supposed by the ancients to fill the upper regions of space.
this would be in reference to ethereal space:
1. light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
2. extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3. heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
4. of or pertaining to the upper regions of space.
5. Chemistry. pertaining to, containing, or resembling ethyl ether.
essentially this idea comes from citiques that we had with Marji's homegirls Margo and Lisa who made that Silvia documentary. Margo after seeing a handful of student work made the comment about how it was interesting that a lot of our work dealt with "ethereal space" and how interesting that was both culturally and generationally, specificaly the latter.
so, my idea for this show would be to call it "ether" and to find work that seems to represent this idea of ethereal space. I already have a fairly big list of artists in mind whose work would fit in with this concept and whom i feel would definately be down to have their work go into the show.
idea two
"drawing" - (a more intersting or specific title could be concieved once the work was narrowed down a bit)
this show would be pretty simple, but i think could be really interesting. i have a few ideas on how it could be approached...the first one would be to try and get drawings from people, faculty especially, who aren't really known for their drawings and try and pair those drawings with drawings that come from students or alumni, or anyone really, that would make sense with said drawing. or we could just try and curate a show of work that all deals with drawing on some level, ideally different levels that show the versatility and importance of drawing.
that's what i have for now, i might revise these in a bit once i havea chance to go over them again.
-r ob
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4 comments:
i really like this idea, would it be just people from UNR?
not especially, it could be anyone. i mean, there is a chance that it could be restricted to just UNR people in order to keep the project conceptually tight and really explore specific relationships.
-I think your "ether" idea is smart and well thought out. What sort of pieces did you have in mind when you came up with this idea? is it mixed media? or could idea one and two be combined?
i think that the ehter idea could be any media really, however, i wa specifically thinking of 2d media. although, if we come across omething that is sculptural that relly seems to fit i would be down for that. i think it could be really interesting to comine the tow and make the show drawing ether, but my concern would be that for the time constarint it may be a bit too narrow to get a decent amount of quality work --having said that, i think that would be really cool, and the title could be a play on matthew barney and it would sound really cool...
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