He's back...

A few more and then I'll bugger off

A few more images I've found. I like the construction site image the most and think it's relevant to our situation - something incomplete and in the planning stages. Chris (drawing)

More images for Approaches to What?

Some more images to play around with. Not very chinchilla-like, I'm afraid. Chris (drawing)

Images of Chinchillas! (In and out of cages)

Please find more images - the current chosen chinchilla image might be too low resolution for a poster (will let you know if a bigger file can be found) - a final vote next Friday 7th December.

Ben (Painting)

Curator

I have a friend, Howard Dyke, who has curated other group shows in the past, who would like to curate our show. The last show I went to that he organised was really good, and like our show, had some very different work shown alongside each other, without looking wierd. I've asked him to send me some images, a cv, etc, so everyone can have a look at what he has done, and decide if we want to use him.

In terms of titles, I like Chris' idea. I also think we should think about something that can be used, or extended, for the MA show as well as the interrim show, if we are trying to createa "brand".

Louise

These was just an idea for a possible image. Hope it's useful. Somebody suggested Interim as a title although I started to think about alternative names which imply where we'll be in February. Maybe 'Halfway' is an apt description.

Clives ideas for images for Approaches to What?

a little odd?

I just thought i would add this to the mix!

Image/ Approaches to What?

To go with the proposed title Approaches to What? I found this image at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gileslane/1715090134/in/set-72157594520035069/ which I think captures in pictorial form the essence of becoming. There's a documentary feel to the image which feels fresh and in the moment. There's a sense of movement too; of things being up in the air; of deliberation and purpose. What do you think? Chris (Drawing)

Approaches to what?

Hello. My proposal for a title is Approaches to What? There's a very interesting essay by Georges Perec (who according to Calvino is 'one of the most significant literary personalities in the world') entitled Approaches to What? I've scanned in his essay and hopefully you'll be able to read the text below. If not, then there's a photocopy next to the Critical Theory handout in the MA studios. I think it's suitable because we are all still very much in the process of figuring out what it is we want to make of our year at Wimbledon. Nothing is resolved, yet. Everything is a question. This title also encourages or challenges the participant viewer to make their own connections between the works. Chris (MA Drawing)

Image Idea

Just thought I'd add a different image option. It would obviously need a bit of work to get rid of the unwanted text.

I think an image and title completely unrelated to the course would be best.

Maybe the title should relate to whatever image we choose!? Although I havn't come up wih anything clever for this one yet!

Kelly

IMAGE AND TITLE IDEAS

Hi all

My suggestion are...

For a title: INTERIMBLEDON

The image is attached:

I propose that whatever title is chosen, it matches the domain name that we register. In this case it would be www.interimbledon.com

I'm happy to help register a domain name - a .com address costs about £22 for 2 years - not bad. I'm also happy to help find a nice server to host it.

I'm also keen to help transform whichever is the chosen image into useable publicity as I have a background in graphic design and marketing. That pretty much puts me on the 'Press' commitee!

Ben (Painting)

I'm keen to be on invigilation. If no-one else has put themselves forward I'm happy to be
in charge and set up a timetable and get everyone signed up.

My relevant skills are:

Ability to make pleasant small talk to wide variety of people.
Ability to sit and stare at the walls for a long time without need for too much stimulation.
I worked as a housemaster at a boys boarding school for 4 years and developed a strong
angry voice good for frightening and apprehending those behaving inappropriately.
Ability to type names into time slot boxes.

I'm still working on my cockney gangster/bouncer accent and hope to put on 20 kilos to
get into character.

Duane. ("The Enforcer")

Know any Curators?

If you know any curators or have contacts with any MA curating courses then please reply to this posting with their names and your contact details. Hopefully together we can come up with a strong shortlist for our Nunnery show!

Interim show .

Went to the Nunnery space last night, and had a chat with other MA's about space. The view seemed to be that it is going to be quite a task to get 75 students equally represented. I reckon we are going to need a curator.
The space has 3 rooms .
Talking with Clive another painter, we thought it might be good to department work, so that each room has several sections, with the work of each section having a common link.
Regarding Jordan's list, I am quite happy to join 'Technical support', as my work outside of the college is as a gallery technician.
Cheers
Adam Dix . (MA pt1)

Action points from 9th November meeting

At the last meeting on the 9th of November is was decided that general meetings about the MA Show will be held less often and that instead each committee with meet up and work on the following points:

Website committee: Set up structure of the website and site-map

Sponsorship, Fundraising and Finance: Research Sponsors and begin contacting them, sort out a bank account (speak to tutors and Finance office)

Marketing and Publicity: Develop a campaign schedule, Set up Mailing List (organisations list & individual contacts list), Get publicity quotes.

Planning Committee: Meet with tutors about interim show, talks and seminar programme for external show, Free Range, draw up a list of external organisations we could link up with and possible external events that could take place.

Meeting with Kate James and Sarita Saggar (Marketing)

Hello all, here are some notes from a meeting that was held with Wimbledon's External Relations Officers on Friday 2nd November. Pippa

Office and telephone use:
External Relations have a free desk space and telephone in their office most afternoons. MA Show committee members can use this desk for making MA Show related telephone calls etc. The Office is behind the main reception desk.

Design:
Last year a designer was commissioned to design invitations that were used for the BA and MA shows. The University want to continue to have a link between the Foundation - BA - MA in all future publicity so as to develop a consistent and recognisable brand. A brief has just gone out to several designers to develop a two-year design for Wimbledon. This will be ready for the MA show invitations but possibly not for the interim show. External Relations are happy for us to develop our own design ideas for our website and for the interim show and also to compliment the official college invite for the MA Show. It will be possible for members of the MA Marketing and Design Committees to meet with the designer to discuss what we want from them. It may also be possible to sit in on the selection of the designer (this will happen in January when all the design bids are in).

During the show:
External Relations have looked at the idea of commissioning a professional map/floorplan of each show.
They usually recruit BA students to invigilate/signpost etc during the opening night.
They have spoken to the council about having footprints along the road from the station to the college as a way of signposting the exhibition. This was not received positively as there were concerns about local residents feelings.

Money:
Marketing is unable to fund our catalogue but they may be able to help in other ways e.g. postage of catalogue, proofreading etc.
If we have a really great PR proposal we can pitch it to Kate James (External Relations Manager) and if she is convinced by it she will endeavor to pitch it to UAL management and get more money for us.

Other exhibitions:
External Relations have been developing contacts with Wimbledon Coucil regarding disused buildings in Wimbledon that students could use for alternative exhibitions and theatre projects. Kate James has given Doug and Geraint information about this.

Marketing:
Cross-course promotion: there is a monthly e-briefing that the University sends out that we can include information on.
David Whittaker (head of Alumni at UAL) organises monthly Dover Street Talks for Arts London and if the MA contact him we may be able to give a talk one evening to Alumni of UAL etc about our work and the course.
We can include information on the event page of the Wimbledon and UAL websites.
Arts London - Student Newspaper. The journalists responsible for writing about stuff at Wimbledon are LCC students Brett Siegel and Eugena...
Mailing List: The mailing list can be used for the MA Show (Marketing will post things out) but not for the interim show (Kate James is happy for us to present a case for us using it to her) as this event has never been considered important enough to invite Wimbledon VIPs and Alumni to.
We can talk to the Head of Alumni about using the UAL Alumni mailing list too.

Opening Night:
Caretaker's fees are £36 per hour and so if we wanted to have the Opening later than 8.30pm we would need to source this money.
External Relations staff man the reception during the opening.

Sponsorship:
Several Banks have a certain amount of money put aside for student projects. ING are a big sponsor of student events.
Offer sponsors the opportunity of paying to hold a corporate event during the show.
Have a VIP event to raise money.

Mailing list

Hi

Is anyone in marketing compliling a mailing list? I think it would be a good idea if one person was responsile for this. I have quite a lot of emails and postal addresses.

Louise

firstly excuse me for my English.

Fund raising, Sponsorship, Finance committee!

we've started discussing about the interim show and the amount of many we need. Learn what financial support does the university can offer or the students union.
We've discussed that we have to approach some companies for products like beers, wine etc...
or supermarkets like Tesco for catering. and also for giving us some money. and then as an exchange of that we will place their logo on flyer and catalogue or at the entrance of the gallerie or either a banner in the entrance of the school.

We might go to Merton council for some money. this will offer them an opportunity for attraction to the area. Besides the university is in Merton. W e have to prepare proposals for that.

We can ask from art shops to supply us with somethings...

Another idea was to sell Christmas cakes or cards or any small objects. we can arrange for everybody to bring something.

We can ask for donations through advertisements.

One more thing is the bank account. we cannot open the account ourselves. the university needs to have the control so nobody can go their and withdraw the money.

If you have any more ideas or you know somebody that can sponsor us please inform the committee. Any names or telephone numbers company names etc...

Thanks
Chrisanthy

Afternoon

Attached are the notes from the last Publicity and Marketing meeting and an inital idea for a brand. This idea is for comments really - any other ideas would be great.

Notes from meeting
Initial Idea for brand

Key themes for this design (themes identified by Marketing commitee as being neccessary for this campaign):

Simplicity
Encourages familiarity due to simplicity
Strong brand
Embodies the college as a unit rather than any individual
Uses elements of the UAL brand to give the event the initial 'solidity' that's associated with UAL.
It's a 2 colour print. This reduces print costs over full colour artwork.
Most importantly it's something to get the ball rolling...!

Thanks
Ben (Painting)

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