Create a glow in Athens with its people's notices

All tags taken from notice

Today, I saw that the notice I had placed had had all of its tags ripped off. This took two days and no one questioned the fact that it was an odd form for a notice - photocopied and not all of the tabs were available to take off. Tomorrow I will collect it 

Glow

Creating an installation of notices that glow

I have seen how blinding the reflection of white marble is when you walk out into the day light
I wish to create a space with so many orange/yellow notices that it creates an optimistic glow.
I'm interested in exploring how a glow can be create through different arrangements of photocopied notices of different shades of orange and yellow

Photocopied notices

These notices have now been taken it out of the public space where it functions as a notice and brought it now into a new realm - that of art: fiction, metaphor and representation.

There is something in these smaller notices where the photocopied image of the selotape creates a distressed mark and where the defaced notices makes the tab illegible. For those tabs which are legible, I have cut them out - retaining the sense of potential and opportunity. By keeping the distressed marks, we are aware that this notice has been lifted out of the public realm where it once served a function. It reveals the marks and movement of a city

I am going to look for more of these notices, perhaps hidden under lots of old posters and need to be dug out...

The light on the notice had changed when I returned home. Look at the shadow

loose notices on the walls

Putting the translated notices next to the originals found in the street

photocopied notice placed outside amongst real notices

photocopied notices

More translated notices

 

 

placing the notices on the balcony in the sun

I have done this partly to see how the heat and sun affects the aesthetic and material qualities of the notices. The other reason is to create a noticeboard that is observable but not decipherable. Some sense of opportunity and optimism in the distance but not quite attainable.

swarming notices

These notices are the product of a period of crisis and are offering a way out of it.

I cannot decide whether to me the symbolise optimism or desperation. Maybe both - optimistic desperation.

There is an atmosphere in the air - this atmosphere of crisis. As portraits of individuals, these notices are things that can be anthropomorphised. How do I create this feeling of optimistic desperation through the physicality and placement of the notices?

By anthropomorphising the notices, I wish to stir a feeling of empathy within the veiwer.

Nathan Coley in response to Claire Doherty

"For me the ideas are tried out in the studio, but never or rarely are they found there."

gravestones at Kerameikos

Is this perhaps where all the notices lead to?

an interesting shop front

You can advertise on anything

Formal qualities of the notices

I am still interested in the formal qualities of the notice, in particular its tabs that people are invited to rip off, take away with them and use to get in contact with the notice creator.

As mentioned earlier, there are stories behind each of these tabs of the life of he/she who takes one - their individual and unique reasoning behind why they need the skill. This unravels into a network different lives all existing within one city. The way that notices are piled on top of one another, creates a frenzy of tabs and I imagine the potential frenzy and panic of individuals who are requiring these skills. I also mentioned that these notices create a portrait of a city. For these reasons, I am starting to consider a anthropomorphic state that these notices possess - that they are alive and bodily.

I may hang these notices outside tomorrow. On the balcony. Watch them curl. Watch them from the street below. A noticeboard of opportunities that cannot be reached.

More translated notices