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Plan B
We are going to use 6 screens. Each of them can show a different kind of series. Same series and same factor will be assigned to the same screen.

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Works
In this part, we changed our plan of works because of the meeting with Ann-Marie.

Plan A:
We decided to use 3 screens to exhibit 6 works at the opening ceremony. Each of them can show a different kind of series of the artist. To balance the time, film screen and tv screen 1 will both have one video. TV screen 2 will play four works in succession. This will keep the playback time of each screen for about 15 minutes.

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landscape

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Introductory
It was placed on the wall next to the big screen.

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Label

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Big screen (The audience)

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Welcome!
We put some posters across our school.

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Poster (selected)
Sorry for my bad handwriting "Stage"!

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Keyword: 13 th Dec

On 13th Dec, all labels are ready. We began decorated our common at 16:30. We were going to use one big screen and four Outdated TVs. All TVs were set ready in the basement by Ann-Marie and moved to the display area. Fortunately, the red shelves were perfect fit for our TVs.

The big screen kept playing the new video.  We could hear the audience laughing around it. On the other side of the room. The headsets for the small screens created a private and quiet space for people.

At 18:00, The show began on our stage.

Have fun!

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The shelves
They had been reassembled for the TVs. Installation was done.

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My lovely group mates!

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Keyword: Introductory

Stage
An exhibition by Ann-Marie LeQuesne
Ann-Marie LeQuesne is a visual artist based in London. She stages collaborative performances, working with groups of people to explore social behaviour in group situations. In her films, participants are invited to act out a range of roles, using elements of re-enactment, ritual and habitual behavior. Through the interpretation of these roles, participants are immersed in the details and sounds of everyday routines in new ways. Stage showcases a range of LeQuesne’s work that addresses stage and staging as both noun and verb. The participants are both ‘on stage’ and actively ‘staging’ a version of themselves. The works also display ‘stages of development’, evidenced in different commands and actions, such as entering, watching and leaving the cinema in her latest film, the trailer for The Audience (filmed at the School of Fine Art, History of  Art and Cultural Studies earlier this year).

Exhibition Credits
Artist:
Ann-Marie LeQuesne
Curatorial team:
Yanyue Cao, Han Guo,
Siyuan Huang, Wei Quan
Special thanks to:
Fiona Blair, Robert Knifton,
Jenny Handley, Kath Lacey,
Gill Park, Fiona Pelly,
Arran Rees, and the participants
in the trailer for The Audience.

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Plan3

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Plan2

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Plan1

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Introductory (selected)
A simple style.

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Flyer (Back)
It is designed as a theatre repertoire. With the show time and name.

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Keyword: Design
I designed some plans for the poster. At first, I used the picture of seats as the background because it can be seen as a stage view. However, the flyer plan is more attractive.
Eventually, flyer became our poster and flyer.

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Time: 29th Oct - 12th Nov
Event: Enter, Watch, Leave.

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My favourite work is (set in) train. I love its concept.

A group of people were told to resume the behavior on the train. They lined up and moved around like a passing train. This reminded me of the experience of taking trains in the UK. So, I think the best interpretation for this work is the broadcast of the train station. I went to collect a lot of train announcement and put them in our label "
The train at platform…is the…service to…,

calling at..." Hope it can make people feel familiar with the idea of "train".

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British Railway Station Train Announcements 2017 Number 1 Newcastle Central 2nd January

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Keyword：Labels

In this step, I took charge in labels writing and poster design.

According to our last meeting, we were going to use five screens in the exhibition. Ann-Marie picked eight works that she wanted to display.

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19 - www.theannualgroupphotograph.com 
The Sinking Shaft
Brunel Museum, London
10/23/16

– "the process has already started – there is no clear sense of how it will end although there is an aim in mind".

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Time: 12th Nov - 13th Dec
Event: Exhibition

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Participants were asked to take on the roles of both actors and audience at the cinema. They entered, they watched, and they left. The camera recorded all. The Audience is a trailer for this film of spectatorship.

The Audience
12/11/18 - The University of Leeds

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12/11/18 - The University of Leeds
 
Participants were asked to take on the roles of both actors and audience at the cinema. They entered, they watched, and they left.The camera recorded all. The Audience is a trailer for this film of spectatorship.

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Before the shooting, Ann-Marie had a small talk with the participants. They all been asked to sign the consent. There were also notices on the walls telling people that they would be filmed.

Consent form

We signed below, consent to be filmed as participants in the above artwork. We have read the associate information sheet, have had opportunity to ask any questions, and understand our role and how the filmed footage will subsequently be used. We freely consent to be filmed and included within the final artwork.

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Tickets ready

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Set the camera

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Thirst?

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Decorated the common room

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Keyword：Filming

In 12thOct, we went to the city centre for preparing the soft drinks and popcorns. At 16:30, we redecorated our common room and turn it into a cinema.
All the tickets, seats, seat numbers, snacks and drinks were ready.

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Keyword: Martet Plan

The exhibition of “enter, watch, leave”
Thursday, Dec 13 th  – Friday Dec 21 st
Leeds University, School of Fine Art,
History of Art and Cultural Studies
University Rd, Leeds LS2 9JT Remember the amazing filming on that film night in the university? Come and see your actions!The newest film “enter, watch, leave” will be presented in loops, if you did not engage in the filming, you can also watch your friends on the screen, see their actions.There also other works of Ann-Marie will be shown in the exhibition, you can immerse yourself and find your own interpretations within it. EVERYONE WELCOMES!!! enter, watch, leave (U) will be shown at the exhibition in the University opening on Thursday December 13th.
Ann-Marie LeQuesne is an artist living and working in London. She stages collaborative performances working with groups of people in public places.

www.vimeo.com/annmarielequesne
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
www.amlequesne.com (closed for updating)

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Snacks and Drinks

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Seat and Seat numbers

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We put seat numbers on stickers. Participants can use their own ticket to find the selected seat.

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Because the Film was Carol, we picked the rainbow flag as our decoration.

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Ticket

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What does a cinema need?

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Key word：Meeting

We had a meeting with Ann-Marie on 29thOct and had a conversation about the new film. During the meeting, she kept mentioning a concept that ’I don’t know what will happen.’ She expected the unexpectable things. There is no script in all her videos.

She also pointed out that she hoped the common room would be decorated the same as a cinema and we discussed all the details. In order to restore a British cinema, we went to local cinema to watch the movie.

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Time: 1st Oct-26th Oct
Event: Project Plan (First Draft )

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Audience: Interaction

In the interaction part, although it was not adopted, one decoration factor that I really like for the display was the mirror. Because I feel that the participants are aware of the fact that they were photographed, even if they were asked to be themselves, there will still be performed. Participants will deliberately avoid bad behaviors. In the News, a father tried to stop his son being naughty. So, I want to place some mirrors in the exhibition. When the audience watching the film, they are also being watched.

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The second option is to put the same series of works together. Present these videos in the form of general exhibition chapters. Each chapter has a common theme which is easy to understand.
Beside the FAHACS artwork, we picked six representative works which used different experimental methods —— low tech way of communicating, LUPA, clear instructions. We want to show the diversity of her stage.

Seven works will be shown in the exhibition by two screens. One screen will show the FAHACS artwork and the other screen will show 6 other works. In order to emphasize our topic, we hope the connection page between videos can be designed as a theatre way.

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I think that Ann-Marie’s works can be classified into two categories. One category that has obvious external interventions, such as (Set in) train. Artist will give the participant a reminder by card or inquiry. One with no interpretation, such as Concert. She just put a concept into the minds of the audience. So, we are going to use two screens. Three works are selected for each type. This can form a strong contrast.

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Our project is to curate a display for a public audience of Ann-Marie LeQuesne’s video artworks, devising an interpretation strategy, ensuring effective marketing to target audiences, and project managing the creation of a new film to be made by Ann-Marie during the course of the project.

The exhibition has been successfully shown on Thursday 13th December 2018 in the student common room of the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies.

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Keywords: Topic, Big idea

‘Ann-Marie LeQuesne is a visual artist who produces a variety of experimental films. The exhibition invites the audience to explore social behaviours in public situations through her videos.’

I think our big idea is like an invitation. We have no rules and regulations. It is presented in an open, welcomed way and asks our audience to discover the charm of the works by themselves.

Basic on the big idea, our group discussed the topic of our exhibition. I am so glad that they like my idea “Stage”. It symbolizes a platform for freedom. There is only one stage, one actor, one director. But there can be a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.

Ann-Marie gave a free space for the participant to act. And we would like to give our audience a free space to interpret the works. The artist stages event and the event will be shown on her stage, being both a noun and a verb with a range of associations. All of our labels also carry out this idea. We try to explain this event in an objective way, leaving the subjective interpretation of the audience.

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Keywords: Works, Audience.

From 1stOct to 29thOct, we divided our project plan(document) into three parts. I took in charge of the works’ display.

Ann-Marie's works are very interesting. They all have an open-ended answer. In her films, she invites participants to act out a range of roles without any script, using elements of re-enactment and ritual but leaves enough free space for them to interpret these roles. These normally will come to an unpredictable and interesting result. That what she expected. The participants and audiences will both immerse in the details and sounds of the film to observe daily routines in a completely new way.

The challenges here are which video should be shown in our exhibition and how can I classify them?
I prepared two plans for the project.

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Labels
We continue our previous interpretive position, focus on the description, and intend to write the label in the form of a "trailer."