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19/ Paintball

Paint + run = create instant exhibition

Idea: A day filled with paintball sessions on 3rd floor (temporary show space) open to everybody (NOTE: painters welcome).
The marks on the walls will create a documentation of the event as well as create an instant massive painting. Ideal timing for the paintball to happen: changeover!

Variations proposed:
James Bond – find the bad guy!
Red Alert – 3rd floor is your battlefield

18/ SALE

See one get one free  – on all art experiences!

Idea: Cover as many gallery windows as possible with big SALE signs and give each visitor as he/she enters a shopping basket. Sale signs & baskets will create link between the high street and the gallery, as shopping (and sales!) is a common experience.
During the walk around the gallery people will not be able to fill their baskets with any objects (apart from purchases from the shop), however internal spaces of gallery (corridors/ entrances to the exhibition spaces, toilets, lifts) will be filled with advert like signs saying: See great art & think about it! Clean your hands & soul! Etc.

17/ Speed

See it all in 15 minutes!

Idea: Very quick tour of the gallery for all who are always short of time. Japanese style tour that concentrates only on main pieces by main artists (MUST SEE!). The tour leader has with him/her a watch and sticks to time. People are given approx 20 seconds to contemplate each MUST SEE art work.

16/ Child height

Exhibitions at children level

Idea: Children can appreciate great art; unfortunately galleries are not making it easy for them. Great artworks are hanged at an adult eyesight height, far above average 4 years old eyes height. Why not to exhibition collection on lower plinths and closer to the ground so it responds to children’s height and encourages adults to see the world as their children do (all these exposed shins & ankles).

15/ Curators – CV boost

Improve you CV during a single afternoon

Idea: An afternoon filled with useful information about curating and it’s daily chores. Create a perfect label, learn about pleasures & difficulties of working with dead & living artists.
Master your hanging artwork skills and befriend a spirit level. Colour schemes (do browns & yellows go together?). The sessions finishes with the practical hanging session (potentially linked with Artist – CV boost)

14/ Artists – CV boost

Improve you CV during a single afternoon

Idea: Exhibit your work in a good company and have you CV instantly improved. During one afternoon artists would be encouraged to bring with them a piece of their work to the gallery and hang it/exhibit it for a minute (timed) next to i.e. Picasso’s work.

13/ Swap

Be in your colleague shoes!

Idea: For one day swap sits with your colleagues. Sit in the director’s chair, be in curator’s shoes, try on gallery assistant’s smile, clean the toilet so it shines! For a day take responsibilities of the others, answer their mail and phone calls, deal with the conversation, shorten their to-do list and SURVIVE!

12/ £££

Art is money

Idea: The tour concentrates on financial value of the certain artwork as much as other elements of the gallery décor, i.e. wooden panels.
Which piece of art is most expensive? What is the value of Epstein’s work at auctions these days? What is the most valuable part of the gallery in monetary terms?
Forget the art, concentrate on figures.