MMU Cafe Entrance Idea

W H E R E 

1.Floor 

 This week our group met and decided to discuss our final piece and where we could see it going for the exhibition. Firstly we met around a table and showed each other samples of the work that we had each produced individually. As well as this we discussed whose work would fit well together when exhibiting. We were a little confused as a group and so decided to find a tutor to speak with. We found Julie who explained that the 'play' group would be exhibiting in the Kraak Gallery in the Northern Quarter. However, earlier in the week another group had come up with the idea of exhibiting in the new cafe in the art building but had recently cancelled. Following this we started to discuss what our work would be like in the cafe and after some consideration we thought it would be interesting to take up this newly evacuated space. To do this we would have to find a suitable area to display our work in the entrance which would compliment our work and follow health and safety regulations. The only way we would be able to exhibit our work in the cafe would be to pitch our idea to the Dean professionally and create a clear idea and some prototypes of the work in order demonstrate exactly what the space could look like. 

After some more discussions we decided as a group to go for the pitch as we felt it would give us great experience especially for the future. Julie helped us to organise the date for this coming friday. At this point our idea was to create a tiled floor underneath the entrance stairs as you can see in both pictures. We felt this space would fit with our work as it would be both out of the way, and fit our work nicely. We wanted our tiles to brighten up the grey space in the entrance. We decided as a group that we could link back to the theme of 175, by making 175 tiles between us. This would mean making 22 each and having a spare left over. The idea we had was to sandwich our work within something that was safe as it would be in a public space. From this we decided to trap our work under a layer of clear perspex so that it would be safe. 

2. Tables

We decided as a group that although the stair space would fit our work nicely, there was also a possibility of the pitch not being successful for health and safety reasons. Because of this we searched around the space some more and found somewhere that wasn't immediately obvious to exhibit our work. TABLES. There are four large tables in the cafe and we found this idea interesting as this way people could actually interact with our work more. And so after all the discussing about the stair space, we chose to pitch for the table surfaces instead. This would mean that we would have to make pieces which could be wiped clean if they got dirty (perspex) and also would not scratch the table on the bottom (we are going to use felt.)