Art Careers at Satellite! PART 1

On April 23rd 2014 the PG Art Careers 12 class travelled to Satellite gallery after school to meet some artists.  These artists are Grad students at UBC who were in the midst of creating a time-based, perpetually developing, collaborative art exhibition which explored the history of the Satellite gallery space and explored the collaborative process and audience participation/interaction.  Check out more about the project on the Satellite website: http://www.satellitegallery.ca/extended-party-mix.html.  This was to be part 1 of a two part workshop for the students in which they explored these themes from a curatorial, as well as artistic angle.  Our goal was to introduce the Grad's project as well as the grad's themselves as well as entice our own students to begin thinking about these themes.  The end result of this two hour intensive was for the students to create a blog entry for the Satellite blog reviewing the exhibition.  The intense timeline made it necessary for the students to organize quickly and collaborate effectively in order to meet the deadline.  Their solution (which was fabulous to watch develop) was an "exquisite corpse" format for composing the review: passing around computers (each screen with a different theme written at the top) with half composed thoughts, to be finished or left behind by the next contributor, unedited, spelling mistakes, grammar errors, stream of consciousness.  The results can be seen here: http://satellitegallery.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/collective-consciousneawkward-sweaty-dance-party/

Stay tuned for part two in which our heroes get to make some art!