Inital Proposal

Project Three

Urban Treasure Maps

Introduction
I will create a series of ‘treasure maps’ that have specific instructions to a location at a given time in order to view and participate in an artwork projection/ a series of projections. Essentially the maps would operate as a kind of invitation to my work and a chance to reach a different audience.
The maps will be placed in public, as something to potentially stumble upon. The finder effectively becomes the ‘hunter’….participating in a hunt of discovery.

The underlying theme of the projected works could surround the idea of a child’s treasure hunt. Perhaps an idea that I can translate into a quest of sorts?

Projected onto buildings could be a pot of gold…the treasure…placed within an urban consumer context…but ultimately something transient and untouchable. A comment on material possessions…a chance to deny and be denied the shiny promise that we are led to believe.

I would like to keep the works I create in some way interactive. The works would obviously stay within the vein of activist work with the intention of raising awareness surrounding issues of consumption.

I would love for the projected works to be more self-sufficient however …something I could set up and walk away from for a longer period of time.

This potentially means getting permission/ access to surrounding buildings and power supplies.
Hopefully ill be able to create documentation of viewers participating.
At the very least I’ll record the projections in photographic format.

As with the Fonterra work, ill play with the scale of the projections in relation to the surface/building it is projected onto.

A final ‘pot of gold’ projection series could be planned for the time of the exhibition, in areas close by, to accompany whatever documentation I show during the exhibition.

Practical considerations

• Appropriate building location for projection
• Power supply
• Ability to leave work set up and walk away
• What if the maps are never found

Materials

• Slide projectors (perhaps multiple projections simultaneously?)
• Photographic material converted to slides
• Power supplies (to be considered when locations are defined)
• Maps. Maybe a more sculptural form, a 3dimensional object that can be transported easily. Something enticing.