Art and Design: Group Project

We completed our first group project in my art and design seminar and presented it to the class on Friday. We were given a little over a month to complete the project and ours in particular took many interesting turns during the way. My group was initially interested in how urban surfaces develop over time and how layers of history are recorded on their surface. We were hoping to try and recreate this process and to get the community involved by building a wall of our own. We spent a good two weeks thinking about this wall and trying to find someone who would donate some real wall space so we could hang it. No luck - everyone was enthusiastic but too slow to commit. So we switched to posters. Thinking they would communicate the layering idea and that we could hang them anywhere we hand printed hundreds of posters and hung them around the city. The idea was to reclaim them and to them layer them into a wall of their own. As you might imagine, the posters were coming down far quicker than they were going up. So in the end, we took all of the extras that had not been hung and taped them all onto the wall that had inspired us in the first place. Ironically, in the end the project was less about the wall but more about our successes (very few) and failures (plenty) along the way. We documented much of the process and the presentation consisted mainly of a video that brought some much needed humor to the situation. I'll work on trying to upload it here (it is a bit long) so check back in a week or so. In the meantime, here are some pics of the final "wall."