“I Just Want To Know You” Exhibition Process Book

Gallery Documentation November 12th- 24th 2014 Willis Smith Gallery Ringling College of Art + Design

Contemporary Role of A Curator Fall Semester 2014 Instructor Mark Ormond

Curated By: Grace Morris Head of Marketing: Elo Catalan Graphic Design/Editor: Lilly Stangeland Copy Editor: Alice Holmes Event organizer: Elizabeth Brissette

Table of Contents Premise Calendar Planning Documents Marketing Material Samples Gallery Printed Material Samples Facebook Screen Shots Attached Video of Opening Night

Premise

This exhibition is about pausing and evoking a realization that each random passerby is living a life as complex and vivid as their own.

Visualize standing on a subway platform, awaiting the train in a mass of people eager to reach their next destination. Hearing the chatter, swooshing, shoving, people in a hurry; blinded by the fog of daily life and oblivious to each other. Each person is lost within their own mind, consumed with dreams, fears, heartbreak, and routines.

Senior Motion Design Student, Sarah Johnson, was inspired by this realization. She created this audio visual installation mimicking the over whelming presence of people on a subway platform. The exhibition showcases eight looping videos, featuring individuals reflecting on questions about life, love, regrets, vivid memories, and fears. Of these interviews, Johnson chose the most compelling quotes that echo through the gallery space, complementing the videos.

Sticky Paper Premise Placed outside the Willis Smith Gallery and the Basch Gallery

I JUST WANT TO KNOW /////////////////////////////// RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN

Ringling College of Art and Design

NOV

11/ 12/ 14

Grace Morris

6pm

CURATOR: GRACE MORRIS

ARTIST: Sarah Elly Johnson will evoke a realization that each random passerby is living a life as complex and vivid as one's own. Each individual has dreams, friends, goals, heartbreak, worries, fears, routines, and stories that happen invisibly around us, we are all connected. This realization inspired Sarah Johnson, a senior Motion Design student, to create several short videos featuring friends, acquaintances, and strangers speeding at 10 second intervals in sync with interviews of each person. As the observer walks into the gallery space, there will be an overwhelming presence, flashing images, and personal stories that fill the room. The show imitates the experience of being in a crowded subway, picking up on bits and pieces of conversations happening all around.

Senior Motion Design Student, Sarah Johnson, was inspired by this realization. She created this audiovisual installation, mimicking the overwhelming presence of people on a subway platform. The exhibition showcases eight looping videos, featuring individuals reflecting on questions about life, love, regrets, vivid memories, and fears. Of these interviews, Johnson chose the most compelling quotes that echo through the gallery space, complementing the videos.

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Visualize standing on a subway platform, awaiting the train in a mass of people eager to reach their next destination. Hearing the chatter, swooshing, and shoving, the people in a hurry, blinded by the fog of daily life--oblivious to each other. Each person is lost within their own mind, consumed with dreams, fears, heartbreak, and routines.

4pm

WILLIS SMITH GALLERY ACADEMIC CENTER

This exhibition is about pausing and evoking a realization that each random passerby is living a life as complex and vivid as their own.

12-24 Curator: Grace Morris

Artist: Sarah Johnson

I JUST WANT TO KNOW YOU //////////////

Calendar

10/ 15 10/ 15 10/ 22 10/ 29 10/ 29 10/ 29 10/29 11/ 3 11/ 5 11/ 5 11/ 12 11/ 19

Facebook Created Posters/ Advertisements Designed/ Printed Event Invitations Designed/ Printed Take Aways (Postcards and Rack Cards) Designed Documentation Videographer Plans, Interview Questions (Arrangements and a Back up) Food, Tables, Benches, Utensils, Plates Arranged and ordered Technology planned and arrangements All take aways Printed Pamphlet Sent to Print Gallery Set Up Gallery Opening Program

Planning Documents

8 videos (different sized projections from different shaped screens) !

Animation- layered images on top of flashing pictures/ videos !

Words- key quote from the interview !

Images- video clips, pictures, interview clips (white T-Shirt and White background) !

All screens synced together !

Every 10 minutes the screens flip, and the videos switch to another screen !

Two benches in the center of the room 8 Audios !

Interview clips !

Chaotic movement sound- noises from home videos, movement like street noises !

Slight music in the background- tonal, emotional !

Two Audio Tracks playing, one on each side of the room Black out the Windows !

Outside- I JUST WANT TO KNOW YOU !

Inside- White, Clean Reflection Cards !

Polaroids of people and a quote !

Bowl of Questions on back of a Post Card Food ! ! ! !

Fruit Water Cheese Platter Sprinkled Cookies White Napkins

Marketing Plan

The marketing plan for I JUST WANT TO KNOW YOU was primarily through social media, posters, and word of mouth around campus. Our goal was to create a subtle intrigue in the show by using small polaroid pictures, images of the videos on Facebook, and utilizing the window space of the Academic Center. We started posting three weeks prior to the show and progressively created a stronger presence with more frequent posts, sharing, hashtags, and updates.

Printed Marketing Materials Posters

I JUST WANT TO KNOW /////////////////////////////// RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN

Ringling College of Art and Design

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6pm

Gallery

Opening

11/ 12/ 14

WILLIS SMITH GALLERY ACADEMIC CENTER

CURATOR: GRACE MORRIS

ARTIST: Sarah Elly Johnson

This exhibition is about pausing and evoking a realization that each random passerby is living a life as complex and vivid as their own.

4pm

will evoke a realization that each random passerby is living a life as complex and vivid as one's own. Each individual has dreams, friends, goals, heartbreak, worries, fears, routines, and stories that happen invisibly around us, we are all connected. This realization inspired Sarah Johnson, a senior Motion Design student, to create several short videos featuring friends, acquaintances, and strangers speeding at 10 second intervals in sync with interviews of each person. As the observer walks into the gallery space, there will be an overwhelming presence, flashing images, and personal stories that fill the room. The show imitates the experience of being in a crowded subway, picking up on bits and pieces of conversations happening all around.

Visualize standing on a subway platform, awaiting the train in a mass of people eager to reach their next destination. Hearing the chatter, swooshing, and shoving, the people in a hurry, blinded by the fog of daily life--oblivious to each other. Each person is lost within their own mind, consumed with dreams, fears, heartbreak, and routines.

NOV 12th

Senior Motion Design Student, Sarah Johnson, was inspired by this realization. She created this audiovisual installation, mimicking the overwhelming presence of people on a subway platform. The exhibition showcases eight looping videos, featuring individuals reflecting on questions about life, love, regrets, vivid memories, and fears. Of these interviews, Johnson chose the most compelling quotes that echo through the gallery space, complementing the videos.

Curator: Grace Morris

I JUST WANT TO KNOW YOU //////////////

TO know you

4-6pm

Artist: Sarah Johnson

Printed Marketing Materials Front Side

Back Side

SMITH GALLERY

I JUST WANT TO KNOW YOU ////////////// will evoke a realization that each random passerby is living a life as complex and vivid as one's own. Each individual has dreams, friends, goals, heartbreak, worries, fears, routines, and stories that happen invisibly around us, we are all connected. This realization inspired Sarah Johnson, a senior Motion Design student, to create several short videos featuring friends, acquaintances, and strangers speeding at 10 second intervals in sync with interviews of each person. As the observer walks into the gallery space, there will be an overwhelming presence, flashing images, and personal stories that fill the room. The show imitates the experience of being in a crowded subway, picking up on bits and pieces of conversations happening all around.

NOV 12 // 4PM - 6PM

6pm

GRACE MORRIS

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SARAH JOHNSON

11/ 12/ 14 4pm

WILLIS SMITH GALLERY ACADEMIC CENTER

ARTIST: Sarah Elly Johnson CURATOR: GRACE MORRIS

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TO know you I JUST WANT

I JUST WANT TO KNOW

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Back Side

Front Side

Printed Marketing Materials Invitations

Face Book Promotion Screen Shots

Face Book Promotion Screen Shots

Rack Cards

i just want to ////////////// know you

SARAH JOHNSON

is a senior Motion Design Student at Ringling College of Art and Design. Beyond her studies, Johnson is a traveler. At age 16, she left home to sail around the world, visiting 44 countries and over 110 cities. Her designs are a collection of past experiences and the new knowledge and perspective that she gains daily from her education.

Artist StaTement

I hope to evoke a realization in viewers that each random passerby is living a life as complex and as vivid as their own. Everyone has individual dreams, friends, goals, heartbreak, worries, fears, routines, and stories that happen invisibly around us. Our lives are like anthills with intricate tunnels sprawling deep beneath the earth where we can no longer see them. There are millions of people and lives that you will never even know existed, or that may just appear in briefly as a pair of headlights passing on the highway or another face on a crowded subway. With this realization, we can all appreciate the beautiful complexity of our individual lives and possibly even find more acceptance and understanding of one another.

Take Aways

The take aways were a token that visitors could take home with them.

The idea was to put the visitor in the shoes of the people who were interviewed. On the back of each the cards were questions that the artist used in the videos. The cards were designed to be post cards that could be sent to someone answering the question.

VIDEO SCREEN shots