Community art project BTEC

Draft brief for developing a community art project on the Ferrier Estate.

Work in groups or individually.

Create a physical document that can be wall mounted (poster / series of posters / installation) that illustrates your proposal for a hypothetical community art project to take place on the Ferrier Estate. You will exhibit your proposals at the public event on 1^st March in the old bank on Telleman Square to residents of the Estate, local press and invited guests from Greenwich Council, Berkley Homes and the wider arts community. This will also be an opportunity for you to get feedback for your project which is your responsibility to collect and feed into your proposals for its final assessment.

To consider for inclusion in your presentation on 8th March:

Demonstrate you have an understanding of the context / site in which your project will take place. What is it that interests you about working on the Ferrier, what is your starting point? Are there any specific people, places and /or issues you want to work with (and why)?

Demonstrate you have spoken to people who live and /or work in the area – find out what their issues / ideas are.

Clearly illustrate/describe your proposal:

- What do you want to do?

- Why do you want to do it?

What is it that makes your project community art?

Who will be involved? Who is the project for?

How will you involve people?

What will local communities get out of your project?

How will you make it happen (what will the stages of developing the project be, who will you need to work with to realise the project)?

What do you want the after effects / legacy of your project to be? How will you evaluate it? What criteria will you use?

Also consider the visual impact of your presentation. You need it to communicate your ideas clearly to your audience.

How will you gather feedback about your proposal on March 8th?

First Meeting with the students BTEC

Intro to Art for Kidbrooke and talk about the plan for 24th:

- reflecting on past community projects

- considering new projects

- recruiting people to become part of an Art for Kidbrooke network

Examples of other community art projects

- who is the art project for?

- why is the art project happening?

- what happened after the art project finished?

Your project:

Hosting, curating and documenting a community art event - see groups below

Contributing ideas and proposals (workshop brief) - anyone can be involved

Getting involved in the Art for Kidbrooke network - anyone can be involved

4 groups

• Group 1: marketing, publicity and front of house

Prep: Design a marketing campaign / communication strategy for Art for Kidbrooke. Think about where you should put fliers and posters, who should know about the event? How can you spread the word in the school and the wider area? How would you approach the press? What kind of information do people need? You are responsible for hosting and welcoming people on the day as front of house - think about how you want to do this (what will you wear, what will you distribute).

21st Nov: Distribute fliers and posters

24th Nov: You are responsible for hosting and welcoming people on the day as front of house, letting them know what's inside (eg. tehre will be food, the workshop, the exhibition). Help clear up at the end of the day.

• Group 2: exhibition design and installation

Prep: Draw a plan of the space, consider all the different elements of the exhibition (Sophie to provide a list) and start to think about where things can go. Consider light and sound overlaps etc.

21st Nov: Work with Sophie, Isabel and Greg to clean the space and install the work. Work on preparing labels and information for visitors.

24th Nov: Talk to people about the work, explaining what is what, giving people info if they need it. Keep an eye on equipment and ask Group 3 for any technical support. Help clear up at the end of the day.

• Group 3: technical support and documentation

Prep: Work with group 2 to consider what technical support is needed (sophie to provide a back-up list). Also consider how and what to document - you will be working with Rizz to podcast the event, think about both visuals and sound. What would you like to ask people about their experiences of past art projects and ideas for future projects? We would also like to set up a blog and put the documentation on there - is this something you can design?

21st Nov: Document the installation day (try and track each of the other groups and photograph / film their work)- this gives you a chance to test the equipment.

24th Nov: Work with Rizz to document the day - podcasting and recording, put documentation on the blog. Help clear up at the end of the day.

• Group 4: workshop preparation and facilitation

Prep: An important part of the day will be the practical participation of the visitors in a hands on workshop which will invite people to consider ideas and plans for future community art projects linking with the new school. You are invited to work with interior architects, Greg Epps and Samson Adjei on this workshop. Plans are still being confirmed (I should know more by Friday!). You may want to think of some proposals yourselves to trigger others to think of some.

21st Nov: prepare materials for the workshop

24th Nov: You will be responsible for helping Greg and Samson, talking to guests about the new school and encouraging people to take part by contributing ideas and proposals. Help clear up at the end of the day.

Tower Songs

On-going

People/groups

City Arts http://www.cityarts.ie

Communities of tower blocks

Location

Dublin

Is a long term arts project which express through voice, sound and song, the memory and experiences of a number of tower block communities across Dublin as they have to live the transition of a major urban regeneration initiatives. Tower songs is a collaborative community art practice, exploring how artists, community development leaders and communities might work together in the context of a changing city. The project reflects both local experience and city wide implications of its work from the outset by connecting the story of tower blocks in Dublin to similar stories in other cities in Europe and elsewhere.

Silwood Video Group

2001-2005

People/groups

Spectacle http://www.spectacle.co.uk/catalogue_production.php?id=128
Silwood Video Group

Location
Silwood Estate, Rotherhithe, Lewisham

The Silwood Video Group documented the life of the Silwood Estate during five years that the Estate experience a Single Regeneration Budget. The group was more than 25 members that wanted to positively influence changes to their environment. Participants have recorded major changes in the life and built environment of the Silwood Estate as well as documenting regeneration meetings and monitoring proposed maintenance and building work on the estate.

Mobile Porch

Nov-Dec 2000

 

People/groups

Public works http://www.publicworksgroup.net/

Kathrin Böhm, Andreas Lang, Stefan Saffer

http://www.mobileporch.net/

 

Location

Westway Flyover, London

 

Has visited different places around the UK and Germany. “It is a multifunctional space, an urban toy, roaming public space, engaging with it users and its governing bodies”. The project started as a temporary site-specific proposal for the public art program of North Kensington Amenity Trust and its initial idea was to create a tool that allows links between contemporary art practice and local audience. Their creators are interested about the appliance of art, in the way that new ideas and approaches require new spaces.

Reality Estate

28th October 2007

People/groups

Frictions Arts www.realityestate.co.uk

Sandra Hall & Lee Griffiths

Merlijn Twaalfhoven

Mark Storor

People from Ladywood

Resedints of the Estate

www.realityestate.co.uk

Location

Birmingham Five Ways Estate and Shopping Centre

Had its origin at the Curio City Shop and it is an interactive performance that transformed the Five Ways Estate, Shopping Centre and roundabout. The aim was to sing Birmingham's truths and it involved 300 participants between international and national artists, local people and some or Birmingham best known choirs.

Curio City Shop

On-going since October 2005

People/Groups

Friction Arts http://www.livearts.co.uk

Simon Walker

Location

Birmingham Five Ways Shopping Centre

The Curio City Shop is a place where the issues of the neighborhood can be discussed freely and turned into living artworks by artists, local people, national and international. The Five Ways Estate and Shopping Centre is an area that has been affected by the redevelopment of Birmingham.