Wednesday's Meeting

We had a chat and decided to make a catalog of our project in the style of conventional business proposals. We are interested in highlighting our failure to communicate our individual private experiences of the project. After talking its become clear that the quotidian divide, as a project, has shifted from site specific communication with the public, to a very personal and dear communication between the five of us. 

The work itself is no longer the site, the blog, or the log, but instead the community of us. The divide is between that experience and the " audience" assumed in an art context, therefore any effort to fully communicate what has manifested as a bonding exercise is doomed to failure. 

We are interested in failing publicly then, as a presentation of some sort is required of us. 

We will do that through a banal and mass communicate medium that asserts the desubjectification inherent in efforts to present closed-circuit experiences to a public. 

In the next week we decided to do research on conventional formats for proposals, reports, and catalogs in the business world. 

We will each post our findings here along with everybody's 3 line bio for the proposal. Are we calling it that?

or catalogue?

ack.

I think that's it for now. Hannah: since you aren't around check in here daily!! xx

Doll and strip

Final edition (featuring unicorns!)

first aim:
http://quotidiandivide.blogspot.com/2008/08/final-aim.html

Revised aim:
After watching how the public interacted with the space we have decided to shift focus. Coincidence, secrets and myths. We are here to entertain ourselves, an emergent consequence of this will be your befuddlement. just remember we love you. xx
Alas, the intimacy we have to give cannot be translated into words.
At this stage of our development we have outgrown theory and concept. Animals.
We are Unicorns, hurrah.


Methodology:
We will have a blog, log, bibliography and box to collect our research and communication with each other. We will take place through the interaction of our interventions.

Bibliograhy: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgnmf3m2_91hzhfqfc6

Timeline: We will endeavor to make one interaction a week each until week 11. then we will empty out the space and stop. We will give Bryce the log printed out on paper.

Our family picture...

Positioned above the fire alarm switch

Nobody did text me. JUST AS WELL.

Free Food.

I left a bit of things offcut from my studio for people to take even stickers.

Old picture.

First thing I put in the space. It controls that whole corner.

Hot Dog

Yay I'm finally here!

I have a copy of Relational Aesthetics already, havn't read it yet but will definitely give it a go. I've been wondering all this time why I can't make a post when everyone else has been easily, turns out I never got the invite (or it went to trash and was deleted), yay what a relief.

How is everyone feeling about the project in general, anyone still worried?

i have three new books!

nicolas bourriaud: relational aesthetics

this book is amazing!

we all have to get a copy!

you guys will love it, is got a glossary that defines art and everything. i got so excited i read the first essay aloud to horst while he was playing call of duty 4 last night. im not sure that he got as excited as me though, since i was infringing on his illustrious military career. 

i am so keen about this book that if you guys suddenly

 wanted to become a close reading group and give a seminar, i'm down.  

Participation/ documents in Contemporary art looks really great too. its a collection of essays by all your favorite theorists and artists on the changing role of the audience in art, and contemporary inclination to invite more than spectatorial viewing in order to create open dialogues about context and consumption of art etc. 

Miwon Kwon: One place after another/ site-specific art and location identity

this book is more on the history of site specific art through the 60s 70s and 80s as a framework for what we are doing now. i think towards the end it might get a little more contemporary but it seems like a good read for exploring the cultural impact of things like late capitalism and location identity, and finding a cannon from whence we come. 

this is the mysterious birds nest i made. 

(it was cleaned up)

...

it doesnt look like much of a nest though...