About
This blog is a record of METRON, a collaboration, and the artworks resulting from it by artists Alun Ward and Clare Carswell in Oxford on the 12th/13th and 19th/20th May 2007.
Background
METRON was conceived initially as a joint exhibition with both artists showing discrete works in the same space. In the weeks leading up to the exhibition the work evolved and grew in ambition through a productive dialogue between the artists about the themes in their work, the possible points of contact between their works and their differing attitudes to making.
This led to the decision by the artists to view METRON as a collaboration that might produce a joint work but at the least would reveal something of the thinking and processes of the artists and raise issues around work practices, authorship and the artist’s relationship with the viewer.
Outcomes
Alun Ward’s 30 minute video work, RUN, was the first work made for the project and is screened during the exhibition. This was made by Alun over the last few months as he went on his daily runs in all sorts of different terrains.
This determined the name we chose for our project - METRON, being the Greek root of the French word metre – the basic unit of length and measurement of distance.
Clare’s starting point for the project was conceptual as opposed to Alun’s which was already embodied in action.
Clare knew that she wanted to respond to Alun’s video work and worked imaginatively towards an understanding of how this might happen. The resulting solo performance work MINE is her first response to the theme and the first evidence of collaboration.
This blog documents the dialogue between the two artists throughout the life of the project METRON and contains the visual and sound documentation of all the works produced by the artists.
Check in for regular blog entries and photo updates from the project. The full photo library can be found at our Flickr web site.
Alun Ward can be found at www.alunward.co.uk
Clare Carswell can be found at www.clarecarswell.com