Shed 26 counter proposal: Gallery + Artist Residence
Shed 26 now is an agent of the artist to highlight the disconnect between a society ingrained in digital consumption. We interact with art through our phone screens for 30 seconds at a time before scrolling and returning to our commute. Of course, digital mediums has democratised artistic endeavours as we are no longer bound to the print press as our primary means of dissemination.
In fact, it is this lack of ties to the physical Autogenous highlights. We have a digital leash that stops us from the experience. In end, Autogenous asks us to re-construct the aura of works of art in an age of endless digital reproduction.
By providing a place for art to be made, reproduced and consumed I bridge the gap between the realms.
‘Autogenous’ is not the name of the gallery, but the name of the process and way of working that brought me to the form, program, and brief. I use this term to encapsulate the project as a whole, because in essence the project rose from itself.
I began this journey by questioning authenticity, and the later the underlying aura of the shed. What made shed 26 itself? I asked, what makes it important.
My initial explorations (found in process) explored the aesthetic authenticity. This gave me a beginning, but didn’t give me an end.
An initial reading lead me to a process, that introduced me to a form, and the form brought me to a brief. At-least, maybe? It really went like this.
My initial explorations (found in process) explored the aesthetic authenticity. This gave me a beginning, but didn’t give me an end.
An initial reading lead me to a process, that introduced me to a form, and the form brought me to a brief. At-least, maybe? It really went like this.
My breakthrough that produced this final iteration was from questioning not only the value of its authenticity, but of its aura.
After revisiting texts, and a few interesting conversations I came to realise that the value of the shed is not in its form but in its per-supposed use as a community building. This pulled me back from treating it as just bones, but a whole. That encases and works with my intervention to articulate the project.
Conceptual diagram.
