Outsider / Informer

2009-09-30T13:45:00.000-07:00

Images from the launch night on the 25th Sept.

Photograph by Kim Fielding

2009-09-30T13:40:00.000-07:00

Photograph by Kim Fielding

2009-09-30T13:35:00.000-07:00

Photograph by Kim Fielding

LAUNCH DAY

2009-09-25T04:37:00.001-07:00

Jason and Sam arrived at 9:36am.

Used sandpaper with holes where Jason's fingers rubbbed through.

Blue ribbons have reached the knife on the back wall.

Jason built a bench. Sam bought two black buckets, and some oranges.

Jason is sanding.
Sam is writing on ribbons.

2009-09-24T09:27:00.000-07:00

Shelf for used sandpaper and mug of tea. Jason is leaving for the day.

Sam is now writing 'Empty Vessel' onto blue ribbon and hanging them from a pipe on the ceiling. Sam is staying late tonight.

2009-09-24T06:41:00.000-07:00

...batman loves you batman loves you batman loves you batman loves you batman loves you empty vessel empty vessel empty vessel empty vessel empty vessel empty vessel...

2009-09-24T05:48:00.000-07:00

through 1 layer

1 wall covered with royal blue ribbons.

Time

2009-09-24T04:42:00.000-07:00

Things progress so slowly. The Volume space is less recognisable, the events, tasks, objects are taking control of the room. The Exhibition is more prominent now. The room is becoming more art. In a dusky kind of light from a single hanging bulb – that shady cellar kind of romanticism – there is an ever increasing strangeness. From police station archive room – to gallery project space – to Informer/Outsider.

2009-09-24T04:21:00.000-07:00

Jason arrived this morning at 9:50
Sam arrived at 10:30 as he had to go to the bike shop.
Jason has started to sand the lectern. He is through the blue and the white paint but not yet through the first ply.
Sam is writing on and hanging ribbons.
The space is now lit by a single bulb in the centre of the space.

'Everything I build this week, if it is to be painted at all, should be blue' Jason Pinder.

2009-09-23T11:49:00.000-07:00

This is the last post for today. Sam has nearly finished covering one wall with ribbons. Jason is waiting for paint to dry and ready to start sanding tomorrow.

Saw hanging from stud in front of wall of ribbons.

Broken drill bit stuck down with painted masking tape.

View of the Space at the end of the day (Wednesday)

2009-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:00

2009-09-23T04:25:00.000-07:00

Sam on a chair, hanging blue ribbons.

Jason's 1340mm long shelf.

Blue lectern for sanding

View across Volume space. (Sam writing on ribbon at the far side)

Small Blue shelf, probably for used sandpaper.

2009-09-23T03:11:00.000-07:00

A busy morning already. Jason has put up a new shelf and painted the top of the lecturn blue. The shelf has warped slightly.

Sam has put 4 more ribbons up.

BATMAN LOVES YOU

2009-09-22T10:31:00.000-07:00

2009-09-22T09:25:00.000-07:00

The work starts to take on the room. Black and blue and bare wood. A divide between abstract concepts and functional aesthetics are starting to present themselves. Wood work and tools framed in ribbons and texts. A knife on the outer-wall looks a little sinister. The inner-wall starts to materialise.

2009-09-22T05:44:00.000-07:00

One camera is not working and the other's battery has run out. We're now using mobile phone camera to document Sam measuring, Crisp packet wedged into stud structure and cut sandpaper.

2009-09-22T05:28:00.000-07:00

Jason is cutting sheets of sandpaper into quarters to make it go further.
Sam is writing 'BATMAN LOVES YOU'

2009-09-22T03:54:00.000-07:00

Jason - Building a lectern type thing for the entrance room. It is for signing in and out.
Sam - Went to the shop for batteries and came back with Duracell plus, Greggs doughnuts, McVities HobNob biscuits, bananas (origin unknown) and salt and malt vinegar ridge-cut McCoys.

Time for a cup of tea.

And pictures.

2009-09-22T02:47:00.000-07:00

Workshop:
The activity is settling into a rhythm. Repetitions. Objects starting to be given their orders. Building places for things to exist. Accumulating dust and sounds of saws…
The room is starting to hint at where things are going. It’s starting to show us where actions could take place. It’s starting to direct us about where objects could be placed.

2009-09-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

2009-09-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

Small Table for cutting sandpaper

2009-09-21T03:26:00.000-07:00

Outsider / Informer

2009-09-17T13:51:00.000-07:00

Samuel Hasler and Jason Pinder

The project stems from initial conversations about boundaries and divisions. The space has been arranged to reflect this. Two artists working together on building a significant division into the Volume space. The space becomes divided into a central cell and a peripheral walkway or frame. A 3 metre by 3 metre box starting out as an ‘open wall’. The activities are generated progressively over a week. The artists separating themselves from each other with semi-collaborative, semi-solo works. Over one week in the volume space the artists Sam Hasler and Jason Pinder will be sawing and drawing, writing and talking and making physical interventions in dialogue with each other and with the space.
We already talk about many things and we still don’t know what each other are expecting from this project. We’ve been talking about:
The man on the inside – the snitch, the grass.
Affluent disaffected youth culture.
Emotional detachment.
Misunderstandings.
Meaninglessness .
Performance.
Architecture.
Being active.
Futility.
Shifts.
Work.
Graft...
...the dialogue continues and will start to become physical things in the volume space soon.