slow down time, focus and revisit the ordinary,
the usual, the routine….
SPIKE(s) are now being situated in offices as an integral element
to “Office Investigations’; a series of residencies and
events to explore notions of paper - work, flow, production consumption
and waste with office workers and managers.
Locating SPIKE in work environments creates an intervention where the
audience shape the work. SPIKE becomes a vehicle for
shared dialogue around notions of paper-work.
SPIKE has two main focuses, one as paper as an object, a material and
resource
and the other on workers relationship with paper in the course of work
practices.
The visualisation of spiked paper as it grows up the spike, creates
an awareness of the use of paper as a material and a resource. The SPIKE
creates sculptural bar charts revealing a stratus of evidence from the
office and references process, work flow, production, and waste.
Paper and the use of paper as an object is such a common and quoadation
activity. Paper is intrinsic with communication, and how we react to
the printed page as content is explored through the “act of spiking’. The
physical experience, draws responses from the aggressive to ambivalent.
Spiking can be emblematic of our relationship with [the] paper.
background
The initial motivation for SPIKE evolved from my constant production
of paperwork as a necessary act in the course of my practice as artist.
The quantity and content of paper collected revealed references to
process, flow, production, evidence, trace and repetition.
SPIKE project is brought to you by artist Jeannie Driver. www.jeanniedriver.com
This project has only been made possible by development funding gratefully
received from arts council.
Thanks to all individuals participants, mentors, friends and colleagues.
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