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Thomas Cuckle, The Notice Board Project, 2005, Cover

The Notice Board Project by Thomas Cuckle

12th October to 9th December 2005

The physical restrictions of the notice board and the space it occupies have become one of the most interesting aspects of The Notice Board Project. Each artist was asked to expand their practices into a space that they would not normally work with. In finding solutions to the physical limitations of an 8ft by 4ft notice board, each artist has opened up new creative possibilities for their practices.

The notice board has become a project space for work that makes a demand of the viewer to become involved. Some works have physically involved the audience, asking that they gradually tear it down, act as a standing audience to performances around it or add to it with typewritten messages. In other works, the viewer has become audience to a developing narrative or to the slow growth of grass.

Work on the board has become highly public, passed by hundreds of people each day and potentially becoming the subject of many conversations beyond the sphere of Fine Art. A much wider audience has experienced practices that may normally be subject of discussion for a select group. The value of this is not simply one of publicity and exposure, when made to consider how a work will be read by such an audience, a different type of artistic thought is promoted.

As the project has developed, the works have become a dialogue, referencing the decisions of earlier projects and building on ideas raised in earlier works. The project can be read as a non-linear narrative in which each part adds to or draws from the meaning of another work.

The project gives something to the building, it reinforces the space as a meeting point and it stands as a welcome into the Fine Art discipline. Similarly, it takes something from the nature of the building, both socially and physically. The projects draw from the reading of the space as a thoroughfare and point of public discussion as well as the ideas of communication behind a notice board. The photographs of each project emphasise the extent to which they work with the physicality of the space. In asking people to stop and interact with the notice board there is also a demand to consider how we move through the building in time and space.

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