Independent Meeting With Thursday Late Group #4 - 18.03.15

#WEAREBROKE

Finalised name - BROKE - created a collective, a brand, that responds to exhibition.

TO-DO:

• Manifesto
• Presentation/prep for pitch
• Expand on workshops where needed (sol lewitt, quilt, crockery, building etc)
• Talk about engagement - how are we going to engage the public with the message? (play, encourage adults to reconsider what it is to make art, design etc.
• Catalogue/publications

(dowling, baser would we could use for the construction workshop), think about the noise if that was in the atrium, the sound carries and if we have drills going etc... what effect would that have on not only the sound but the atmosphere?

Collage, merging modern and old, expensive and cheap, ornate and plain (catalogue).

WORKSHOP: Budget of a certain amount of money, boxes of items of a certain price, have to fill room according to taste based on budget, see how far you can get - makes a comment about value and potentially class as well.

Basic Concept: A Collective

What do we all think the Broke Collective/BROKE Collective is? What do we want it to be and what do we want it to say? What is important to us based on this exhibition and how can we show that?

1. Challenging the sustainability of design today - what happened to 'make-do and mend'?
2. Ownership and authorship - they gave you the instructions, but you made the chair: to who does this piece then belong to and under what pretenses? Does this matter?
3. Art and Design - what bridges the gap? What lies in the abyss in between?
4. Value - who are they to say?

I came up with this as a short statement about the collective:

"BROKE// is a collective that questions and challenges preconceptions about art and design in a recession-riddled economy and a broke society.
Can art and design thrive in a recession? We are Broke, and we think it can."