Meeting with Stephen

Yesterday we had a meeting with Stephen in our curating groups. It was really useful because we have got some really good ideas for the setup of our exhibition next week. He had a read through our proposal and he thought it was a really good because its not a simple idea.
There were a few things that we didn't actually think about that Stephen mentioned, one of these  was the way we pass our artwork to the next person in our group. I thought there wasn't any other way of passing the artwork except from just giving it to the next person but it was really good to see different ways of interacting with each other. We came to the decision that the photo of us swapping work would be where the work is standing up against the wall and the present owner would be walking away from it and the new owner will be bending down to pick it up (this will be the same frame for everyone and every swap in the group).
We then went on to how we are going to display our artwork for the exhibition. Previously, Stephen and Anna mentioned that it would be really good to not actually show the finished pieces of artwork but to actually show the documentation instead. Using that idea Stephen gave us a really interesting idea to work with which was to pack up all of our artwork and place it in boxes and storage facilities as a piece of installation (as if the exhibition is being pulled down and moved to the next place) and present the documentation instead. This would stop the concentration being totally directed towards the final outcome which is the normal process in galleries but the direct it at the journey it has been on.
Dan in our group wanted to do a video in the dark space which will be another interesting element to the exhibition. When presenting the idea to Stephen he said that this would be interesting because it would be the only actual piece of artwork being shown because all the rest are packed up so the viewer cannot see them in detail.
There was another good point that was risen by Stephen and that was that it would be really good to link the process that we are going down to a part in history. Another words, we could find a couple of artists that have worked in the same style as us, passing work around and adapting each others work.
If we are able to take all of these ideas into our exhibition, it should present a good outcome!