A residency followed by an exhibition
25 October - 13 December 2008
Market Gallery, Glasgow - UK

The structure of a Residency followed by an exhibition creates an expectation of a presence during the residency, in order to produce work for the exhibition. From this point, the project responded by focusing attention on this inhabitation of the space and the division between residency and exhibition.

A constructed wall unnecessarily split the space into two defined areas, one as the ‘exhibition space’ and the other as ‘residency space’; a division that physically mirrored the temporal divide between the two stages of the project. Reiterating and continually shifting this division by physically moving the wall and encroaching upon these respective spaces, whilst also allowing access to varying amounts of the space across the project period.

By inhabiting these spaces on a daily basis, work was produced in the back and forth movement between the two. These movements and their results were documented and analysed to determine further movements, whereby previously undetermined behaviourin turn became affected and forced. With each movement video self-documentation was used to record this taking place, in addition drawn and written documents detailed decisions and results; producing an accumulation of material that pointed to aspects of past behaviour, or behaviour yet to be enacted.

The work developed a relation to site-specificity that goes beyond physical attributes, developing a psychological site-specificity that explores behaviour in relation to a site and how this can be seen to go too far.

Throughout the residency period a daily blog served as a further document, detailing daily behaviour at the space and offering a removed perspective on this inhabitation.

To read Kathy Fawcett's introductory text for the exhibition click here.