Showing posts with label Background Info.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Background Info.. Show all posts

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Story behind UPN9

UPN9 tells the story of an artist that goes by the alias of Bohemian. He neither acknowledges nor regards himself as a person but rather an entity whose sole purpose of existence is to express artistically. Growing up, he was constantly taught by his family to conform to social and cultural norms, to be the best that he can be in the eyes of society - educated, respected, well-mannered and what not. He did as he was told and achieved much, which made his parents and peers very proud and envious of him.

Despite having such a strict upbringing, he constantly questions and challenges authority, popular truths and conventional ways of artistic expression. On his 18th birthday, he ran away from home in search of a new life and eventually came to a conclusion - He would rent a room and have it be the physical representation and house of his creative intelligence. Hence, he embarked on the journey of self-expression till one fateful day, he disappeared from the face of the earth. Nobody knows when, where and how.

All he left behind were 9 personal projects of his... the final one left unfinished.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Team Meeting Minutes

Location : Coffee Shop opposite RP
Date & Time : 10th October, 5.15pm - 7pm

During the meeting, the team has further developed on our concept (read below), discussing what is going to go into the room as well as considering the factors that might affect us in setting up our project. ( such as how and what are we going to use to build a room )

We also came up with the storyline and background info. about the artist.

Location of installation.
The space at E3. (tentatively)

Concept.
Merging the 5 different minds of us into a single mind of an artist.
The team will built a room belonging to this artist.
Inside the room will consist of 9 different works of his, and which the last one would be unfinished on purpose, of course.
His works would consist of film, sounds as well as visuals.

Background info. of artists.
He is a loner living in his own world and his only focus in life is art.
His style of works are mostly experimental and he is constantly trying everything different.
In his works, there are hints of him leaving and eventually the last piece of work would be deliberately left unfinished to let the audience know that he has left.

As for where he went, that would be left a mystery.

The team has came up with certain ideas on what is going to go into the room and therefore each of us will come up with different works of our own and then coming together to put everything in place.

Guys do edit/change where ever you all would like.
See you all next week.

Till then, Janice.

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