Art Show Ideas- Nick Nuttall

ART SHOW IDEA ONE: STORY PATHS

This show is to illustrate how stories can be abstracted by the involvement of many, and how that abstraction takes shape. Each of these exhibits are meant to take up one wall in the alt/space.

Part One o the Show: One person writes a rough story outline. The next person draws out that storyline in comic book form. Another person colors in the artwork. Then one last person adds in dialogue balloons based on what they can see in the picture. Noone can give input to the next person in the process. Displayed on the eastern wall.

The finished result is displayed with each step presented. The outline. The penciled/inked art. The colored art. Then a colored page with dialogue added in.

5 or 6 pictures based on a short story. Everyone reads a specific short story, and then presents a work of art that can be mounted on a wall depicting a moment they liked or one that stood out to them. Results are displayed on the northern wall.

The pieces are displayed in two rows of three, with explanations beneath each piece. Then the short story is probably mounted besides these pieces, but in larger text on a large posterboard.

We write one short story together. Everyone picks a different medium to tell that story in. THe results are displayed on the eastern wall. 

ART SHOW IDEA TWO: ALTERED SENSES

This show uses elements of eliminating senses, but instead suggests altering them. There is a smaller fourth wall in the alt/space. I’m not sure exactly how to space this out, but I would use all five senses to produce this art.

              An example of something I could do: instead of go through life as usual, I would go through one day (or a period of time) listening to music everywhere I went and through everything I did. My sense of hearing isn’t totally gone, it’s just altered. Or walking around with sunglasses of a certain color on. The world will be perceived differently. Go for one day with something on the edge of your nose that you have to smell for a certain period of time. Mess with your sense of taste by eating a certain candy or vegetable with everything else you eat. I’m shooting a lot of ideas out, but the idea is to document the experience and present it in an interesting way that helps attendees understand it. We can divide each into sections. Make the room like a giant face. What if we displayed some things on the ceiling? That way we would have (technically speaking) five walls!