Brief
The objective is to encourage contributions for a week long, non profit pop up print exhibition and shop that will be held at the Leeds Corn Exchange between March 28th and April 4th 2014.
The theme of the exhibition is 'dialogue' where each creative will submit a design that will be used in a blind collaboration. Contributors must be open to their submissions being manipulated through the use of print and the match making process, that will pair the two submissions together. This will create a series of screen-printed artworks that will be displayed throughout the running of the exhibition.
Submissions
Yoke welcomes creatives from all creative backgrounds to contribute to the exhibition. We're now ready to start receiving your ideas based around the theme of 'Dialogue'. Submissions can take any form of the theme. It could reflect directly on past conversations, forms of interaction or it could spread further afield to what you think communication is today.
Response
Through definition and terms associated with dialogue I first came up with the idea of censorship especially in North Korea, the whole big brother is watching you feeling. Kim Jon Un controls the internet, who has enabled access and what the content is leading me to having the concept of giving him multiple eyes so that he constantly has his many eyes on you.
I also came up with the concept of creating a game of somewhat that instead of describing or illustrating dialogue, its aim is to create dialogue. The game purposely requires two people; one to say three numbers between 1-20 and the other to read out the response (insult)
The main submission is a collaboration between Sam and I, it simply depicts the synonyms of dialogue but is slightly offset of top of each other 5 times to change the way dialogue is perceived.
Kim Jon Un
To create the design for Kim Jon Un I decided to give him multiple eyes to represent the power he has on dialogue and how he controls it (constantly has his multiple eyes on you). I glitched the piece by hand by dragging a print off of his face along at the same pace as the light and sometimes faster to repeat his eyes.
Final submissions
Evaluation
Overall I'm happy with every submission for dialogue, I think I have produced three very different responses, none are exactly long the same line and each one showcases dialogue differently. The main collaborative design was selected for the exhibition which I am proud about but it was printed against something that made our response unreadable sadly.