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Reminder !! Look at videos/installations

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Baked bean race.

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Judging by what I'd seen of Bea's work: colour, pattern and effulgence is key to what she produces and after chatting we both shared the sense of wanting to incorporate humour into our work. I felt this summoned up what was crucial to her practice in a light hearted, tongue in cheek way.

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Initial testing - i'd worked with latex for the majority of last year and thought this would be a good place to start. Painting with latex.

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Always comes back to food...

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IKEA Strategy...
Which Ikea character are you?
Public interaction - Survey -  Researchers - Measuring peoples heart rate at the start and end of the shop.
Housing Crisis
Claim the space - yoga class - artist residency - wellness retreat - live out an entire day
Eco - Ikea Warriors (greenwashing ads)
Ikea impersonator - fake uniform - clean
Metaverse is Ikea
Replace props with photocopies
Inhabit the Uninhabitable

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We brainstormed scene ideas, wanting to keep things fairly natural but also keen to get a reaction off the public.
Sleep in beds
Brush teeth/ Shower
Breakfast in the kitchens - perhaps take food from the canteen and eat in our kitchen.
Make up
Cut hair
Paint nails
Watch tv
In the office...
Tidying/ cleaning
Have guests over
Party

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We decided to stick with filming (yikes) in an attempt to live out an entire day in Ikea as we would at home. This time with a bit more structure....

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Initially occupied spaces participating in group reading with Angus, Connie and Laura.

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After being given the go ahead by Laura, we decided we'd continue working together - embodying the characters we felt would inhabit each of the individual show rooms, we began filming and acting in response to each space. This worked well, confidence was a bit of an issue and as the day went on the videos got more and more unhinged. Back to the drawing board.

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They came!!! and Joe brought wine!!!

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I'm particularly happy with this scene as it feels the most natural and at home despite the huge protruding IKEA price-tag that reminds the viewer where we are.

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We liked the idea of incorporating some cheesy one liners like this "We like our bedroom to be a oasis to escape" as after spending our whole day there we came home repeating the ikea ad that was on loop outside Angus' master bedroom.

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Cameo!!!

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Exhibition Set up
We had quite a range of ideas in how we were going to show the film...both Connie n I went away over the reading week so were a little pushed for time when we got back so things could have been different/better but this is what we settled for with the amount of time we had.

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Invitation to our Ikea party.
Stuck around our studios and hoped people would come

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Katie's Granda's collection of stamps. popular item at auction.

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Other ways in which we would've liked to exhibit the work: life size screening - projection onto the wall - promotes engagement
Photograph the set up and print it almost like a wall paper with the life size projection
After our crit people suggested having life size hanging price tags similar to those in the video but we felt this may be too literal
Directors cut...Bonus feature

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surreal stamps made using crayon an AI model that can draw images from text prompts

limited edition queen stamp

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limited edition royal nature stamp

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The complete Ikea showroom.
Photocopied images of plants
Jars with photocopy of Connie's hair
Stack of books - 1000 Chairs, A guide to the Communist Manifesto, World of Art Marcel Duchamp and Female Malady.
Carpet
Sofa
Pictures on the wall
Fruit
Bag of bread.

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royal family limited edition vintage stamp

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Invitation framed within the installation

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peg dolls peg dolls peg dolls

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protecting new hair do but make it fashion.

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protecting new hair do but make it fashion.

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on the way to lunch

wooden peg, wire, latex, thread, twine, bolt

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meet my makers

wooden peg, wire, found metal and bolts

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This is one of my favourites.
My mam n me sat getting bevvy on $25 cocktails (i know $$$) watching the sunset over Brooklyn whilst having the occasional giggle at some of the spider-man like poses we witnessed from the best seat in the house.

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Found shite off of the floor with clay/latex feet

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Dying with coffee

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wire n newspaper body - twine wrapped around wire legs...before latex dipping

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Latex legs test... i liked the thread but as i continued to work on other areas of the doll the thread started wearing so i was worried by the end there'd be none left, used latex to keep em sterdy and strong but without altering their look too much.

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Wondered why my clay faces weren't drying...because i'd used plasticine

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Skirt tests
my seamstress skills are very limited and i didn't want to introduce too much colour with the belt and hats so decided i'd try dipping thread wrapped newspaper into latex and see how it looked. Quite liked the look with a hint of colour so made a few more like this and a few block colour. Sewed them altogether...skirt!

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hat/hood in the making.

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Use skirt material on large scale puppet.

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Model for large scale model- attach to wooden plinth through underneath and back.

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Put hinges at knee caps for exaggerated movement
Arms on rods ?....connected to motor
4 motors - arm, arm, leg, leg
Circuit rods to move on beat with Marlene Dietrich song... Oú vont les fluers or Farewell Gigolo

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Really wanted to make this wee guy move inspired by Joe's studio pipe tightrope. Thought i could slice the pipe and somehow use strings to pull each leg...

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Add wire hands
Using wire hands will be holding tiny very detailed saw and bow in the other hand