Nadia D24 March 2014 08:49
Haha this is great! Made me think about our original idea of the life drawing class, but the problems with that were that we were still segregating people and the perhaps cliche idea that being creative=going to life drawing class.
Could be interesting to do a sort of flash mob life drawing class on a tube carriage. One intervention with one of us in one of those nude suits, one of us giving out pens and paper and three of us as posed as regular commuters to participate so others will be more inclined to join in. Could also do another one and replace the person in nude suit with a trolley with a bowl of fruit on it.
This way we would be questioning the idea of free time and what we do with it, as well as peoples creative and social inhibitions. Life drawing is usually a private, intimate thing between people with similar interests who have all purposefully used their free time to attend a class. By springing it on people like this we're questioning this organised form of creativity. There's also a lot of humour in having someone in a nude suit and also a trolley with a bowl of fruit on it in a place like the tube.
Just an idea to think about!
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Could be interesting to do a sort of flash mob life drawing class on a tube carriage. One intervention with one of us in one of those nude suits, one of us giving out pens and paper and three of us as posed as regular commuters to participate so others will be more inclined to join in. Could also do another one and replace the person in nude suit with a trolley with a bowl of fruit on it.
This way we would be questioning the idea of free time and what we do with it, as well as peoples creative and social inhibitions. Life drawing is usually a private, intimate thing between people with similar interests who have all purposefully used their free time to attend a class. By springing it on people like this we're questioning this organised form of creativity. There's also a lot of humour in having someone in a nude suit and also a trolley with a bowl of fruit on it in a place like the tube.
Just an idea to think about!
