Gordon Flemons and Fran Wilde

This is a series of observational drawings. Not sure if this is really outside the white cube. Well, I guess the googlemap is and the drawings were made on location. There are lots drawn on plastic bags! The exhibition was in a pub. "The act of drawing quickly focused our attention on the flow of people through the area, and for me more specifically, the forest of signs that control this movement; directing, dictating, and tempting."

andy abbott- anecdote vendor

i know we all know this one already, or at least those of us in word based art last semester, but i've talked to andy quite a bit about this piece since then, and i thought it was really interesting that after displaying it in an exhibition space, it was put in a pub for a while, and actually worked a lot better there. for those of you who missed this lecture, it kind of acts like a normal vendor, only instead of putting in money, you have to write your own anecdote and put it in a capsule and drop it into one of the tubes, and in exchange for it you get someone elses story. so anyway, apparently the anecdotes left in the pub-exhibition were all more genuine and interesting than the first exhibition, which were a bit contrived. but apart from that, it turned out that in the pub, this machine sparked off all these really interesting conversations, so really the art ended up being the vendor as a facilitator of these random interactions between people, rather than the machine as an object. i'm really liking the idea of the conversation or interaction as art in themselves rather than art-objects.

(Anecdote Vendor, 2005, a pub somewhere in leeds)