The waiting game is a simple idea; I have taken objects that you accumulate if you know that you will be waiting somewhere.
keys, phone, money…a book
music, access to the internet,
mementoes
toys, tissues
pocket fluff
postcards, string
paper pen tickets
food, coffee
perfume, lists
random things in your bag that are suddenly interesting because you have the time to twiddle and think……..
The game is for two players, the rules are made up between the players.
Average duration of the game is five minutes, average time spent in front of a work in Tate Britain is two minutes ( observation by Christine Egan-Fowler based on a week in Tate Britain summer 2016)
I like the wait time between deciding the rules and playing. There is a tactile experience and a set of equivalents worked out between the two people.
At some points players return to rules from other games like snap …but there are no doubles of objects and therefore a piece of string becomes equivalent to a roll of film!
..a book ‘The Flaneur’ by Edmund White is equivalent to the Pantone pocket colour range. It has pages!
The use of space on the table becomes immersive and movements careful and performative. Some of the players knew each other, others did not.
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Christine Egan-Fowler: Playing the Waiting Game
The ArtWorks Fellowship – The Organisational Perspective
An exploration of the connections between remembering and the senses, performance and painting, live and the archived.
The installation offers opportunities to recall early memories
of processing the things we see, sense, taste, smell and hear,
with large-scale paintings made using a dynamic mix of materials: Brasso, calamine lotion and Windowlene – products vividly evoking the artist’s childhood.
A changing display of photographs, film, writing, and a relaxing viewing space all invite visitors to consider their own experiences of memory and creativity.
The exhibition is the culmination of The Artworks Fellowship – The Organisational Perspective.
A pop-up programme of performance and events by Christine Egan-Fowler will take place every Saturday in September from 12.00-14.00.
Full details at http://www.balticmill.com/eganfowler
Exhibition private view:
Thursday 15 September, 18.30-20.00
Quay Gallery
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead NE8 3BA http://www.balticmill.com
Organisational Perspective is funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Open Grants programme.
Image: Waiting at the door for Alison Pearson while she had her tea, 2016 by Christine Egan-Fowler. Oil, pigment, Windowlene and Brasso on Fabriano.
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