Brighton

I needed to remind myself what Guy wrote:

"I suggested an event (perhaps 2 events?) based around the idea of performance and photography and said I would begin to discuss this with you all."

The way you interacted with the theme in Exercises in Failure and with the place in Existere (Testbed1) was really effective, and I wonder if this can be brought to bear, if you make new work, in Brighton."

It's interesting that we have been talking about Hockney and also Richter and the relationships between photography and performance for some time now.

The trouble with Brighton is coming up with an idea quickly, we usually want to take our time. I think we feel under pressure to produce something spectacular but perhaps we need to get this out of our heads and use the opportunity as a further testing ground, or something which is we would simply enjoy doing.

The way people take photographs and also the waythey view them in galleries are in some ways both performative acts. It's interesting that we started producing work for the camera. And when we did this the way we have taken photographs has usually been completly ridiculous (think of the ice pic, the little plastic elephant, the white elephant etc). We forbid people taking photographs of our last perfromance. One thing we haven't done is observe how people look at photographs, or works of art.

There has been quite a lot of photographs of people looking at work, for example Thomas Struth work of people looking at painting in Museums. It could be interesting setting up a performance on people viewing work - based on observations and statistics. We could expand on this, for example manipulate the statistics and hence the way move around the work in the pefromance...