Haywired (schools linked to the Hayward Gallery)
The Hayward Gallery created the Hayward Huddle, which involved a young people from the Haywired school network to meet to discuss ideas and get involved in making art, learning about art, meeting artists and seeing art.
The Hayward Gallery offered the opportunity for young people from link partner schools in London to take part in a unique project which crosses the atlantic ocean. A group of young people from Los Angeles, California were on stand by to collaborate with their London peers, and create a special new art work for display at Southbank Centre.
The London group consisted of 20 students, worked with artists Davina Drummond and Daniel Wallis to create a film piece, the piece was projected at huge scale on the outside walls of the Royal Festival Hall and incorporated a live interactive mobile text element.
L.A.Exchange project at the Hayward Gallery
This exhibition documents of the making of Not A Bad World, Is it? a new artwork by Davina Drummond and Daniel Wallis devised in partnership with young people from across London.
Working together over a period of two months the group developed a work that explores the relationship between language and image, location and memory. It was made in response to an artwork of the same title from the Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Throughout the process ideas were shared with young people from the Apprenticeship Programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where Ed Ruscha lives.
The launch event on Friday 11 December 2009 took the form of a video projected on the side of Royal Festival Hall. The artists invited viewers to contribute to the film by asking them to ‘describe the most beautiful thing you have ever seen’ via a text message. These statements then appeared as text live in the projected artwork.
The piece explored notions of locality in both London and L.A. where the group will be in contact with young people working at MOCA. Responding to the Hayward exhibition ‘Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting’ the group used text as an active tool in engaging the viewer, encouraging passers-by at the launch event of their work to interact with it directly via mobile phone; viewers responses will appear within the projected work.
The artists used a mobile phone as a hub of communication over the two months spent developing project. They used text and picture messaging ideas and thoughts to share, using it as a modern communal sketch-book. This phone was displayed in The South Bank Centre’s Poetry Library as a way of archiving the development of an artwork produced by people separated by different locations.
It’s not a bad world is it? Is both the title of one of the Ed Rushca paintings on display and the inspirational question behind the new work.
This exhibition documents of the making of Not A Bad World, Is it? a new artwork by Davina Drummond and Daniel Wallis devised in partnership with young people from across London.
Working together over a period of two months the group developed a work that explores the relationship between language and image, location and memory. It was made in response to an artwork of the same title from the Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Throughout the process ideas were shared with young people from the Apprenticeship Programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where Ed Ruscha lives.
The launch event on Friday 11 December 2009 took the form of a video projected on the side of Royal Festival Hall. The artists invited viewers to contribute to the film by asking them to ‘describe the most beautiful thing you have ever seen’ via a text message. These statements then appeared as text live in the projected artwork.
The piece explored notions of locality in both London and L.A. where the group will be in contact with young people working at MOCA. Responding to the Hayward exhibition ‘Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting’ the group used text as an active tool in engaging the viewer, encouraging passers-by at the launch event of their work to interact with it directly via mobile phone; viewers responses will appear within the projected work.
The artists used a mobile phone as a hub of communication over the two months spent developing project. They used text and picture messaging ideas and thoughts to share, using it as a modern communal sketch-book. This phone was displayed in The South Bank Centre’s Poetry Library as a way of archiving the development of an artwork produced by people separated by different locations.
It’s not a bad world is it? Is both the title of one of the Ed Rushca paintings on display and the inspirational question behind the new work.