Introduction

The Process of Art: Time may continue, come back to me

In June 2011 we began the project by visiting the LIFT  (London International Festival Of Theater) archive at Goldsmiths University, London http://www.liftfestival.com/about-us. One piece in particular, the Urban Dream Capsule installation/performance piece took on relevance and provided us with the basis of creating our own work using various multi media archiving processes.
From the 6th to the 9th of June 2011 we worked in collaboration with artists Sue, Eddie and Dan from LIFT to create an installation that explored the process of archiving our memories. Our main inspiration came from Urban Dream Capsule project documented in LIFT''s Living archive, where  collections of documents and pictures from the first twenty years of LIFT'S history have been recorded.  The LIFT artists helped us create our own archive in the windows of Chestnut Grove School's main entrance. The work was made quickly and in layers, and included paintings, drawings, video and performance.  Using our own personal objects as a starting point , we explored and investigated ways of communicating in a visual way to an audience. The project forced us to ask questions about art and the creative process.  The student quotes below attempted to answer these questions:

"Producing process art using mixed media"
"Drawing, hanging work inside a window, talking about it."
"Trying to understand the meaning of archiving. using different mediums, rather than the obvious"
"It's a symphony of progressive performance art archiving the artist's journey"
"Getting inside windows"
"Archiving a process"
"Saving art"
"Unknown information"
"We have been archiving experience and learning about process"


Over the next year, students will be adding to the display windows, using their memories of the summer holidays as primary sources. These sources will inspire individual student art installtions. Overtime, these windows will become a memory themselves and the students will be a part of that memory.