WHO? HOW? WHERE?

Last week we were set our first brief to produce an A3 poster to convey our current or most recent practise. At first I struggled to imagine how I could possibly fit all of the information I wanted to pass on in one A3 poster! After looking through my work I decided to take a similar approach to a previous project done as part of the Liverpool Biennial Independents in 2012. Through creating a poster made up of 4 layers I managed to get across quite a few points about my current practise and where I see it going or perhaps not going in the future.

Each pin holds up 4 layers of mini cards that make up the A3 poster, and each card has print on both sides. The front of each layer are each identical and show my identity, Kochi Kochi. One the reverse of these cards there are small examples of work I have been doing since graduating from my undergrad course at Liverpool School of Art over 7 years ago. The first layer of cards show my identity clearly and on the reverse have the kind of work that I would like to move more towards or use as a starting point to develop a new way of working. The audience are invited to take the layers away and as this happens the Kochi Kochi identity becomes less visible and the work displayed on the reverse of the cards becomes the work I would most like to move away from.

This felt like the best way to display my current practise as it not only introduced the audience to who I am and what I have been doing, but it also works on another level whereby the poster requires the audience to interact with the piece which is another important part of my practise. The more people interact with the poster, the more they get to find out. If a large number of people interact with the piece, it encourages them to interact with one another and what they have discovered from their card that they have taken from the piece. The poster has become both permanent and ephemeral in that it is fixed to the wall with pins, yet invites people to take a piece of it away with them. Whether they decide to keep the small piece of the poster or throw it away is another level of this that I have no control over. Below are some images of most of the posters presented in the class.