Wall-Paper

Idea for covering the walls of the room in newspaper came to us from more than one source. The First idea came from the works of Chisto and his wrapping art. However, our idea seemed to be more of a reverse of Christo’s work for while he was wrapping the outside of buildings we wanted to cover the inside of a building and from this idea we discovered a new inspiration.
The Artist Emma Hack is a body artist who paints bodies and then camouflages them against walls that are painted exactly the same. From further research It was discovered that Emma had been given permission by signature prints to use the designs of Florence Broadhurst, and iconic wallpaper designer, and was using these designs and incorporating them into her own work. After looking at Emma Hacks work we got the idea to cover ourselves in newspaper as this would allow us to be camouflaged into the wall and would allow us to almost break out of the wall, as if we were breaking out of the wall to draw more attention to the grandstand as the grandstand cant draw attention to itself.
Our original idea was to use copies of the racing post with which to cover the room and ourselves with. However, after some discussion we decided that we should use more than just the one paper. Although using the racing post would be very specific to the site seeing as it used to be used for horse racing we could also relate the performance to each of us by using paper from all different places. For example, we used some of the Student papers that featured the universities slogan on it as it related to all of the people in the group as we are all students of the university and the whole project had been brought to our attention due to it. We also used a lot of Lincolnshire papers and looked out for anything that had stories about the grandstand or about the history of Lincoln itself.
According to Emma Hacks website, ‘The reaction new viewers have to Emma’s work is usually one of intrigue,’ ((http://www.emmahackartist.com.au/emma_art/the_artist.html)) and we hoped that the reaction of our audience would also be one of intrigue and that our performance would pique the interest of our audience and they would want to find out more about the site itself. We also hoped that the use of paper would intrigue an audience and that they would pay attention to the papers we used as they did indicate a deeper meaning as outlined in a previous post.