Creative Writing/Animation Archive.

Today, myself and my fellow creative writer's were in the Animation Archive.

The subject of the writing workshop was Curation.

Definition of Curation:
Curation is the selection, presevation, maintence, collection, and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds values to repositories of digital data for present and future use. This often accomplished by archivists, libraians, scientists, historians and scholars.

We discovered that archives and objects have been used in curation. For example, in the exhibiton "pleased to meet you. Introductions, by Gwyn Hassen Piggot." and also in the process of creating the "Yellow jelly baby". Animators were told to make the jelly baby "Paler" and "thinner" do to her being the only female jelly baby.
The gaurdian also covered a story about a gallery in Amsterdam, changing the names of art work that comes across 'offensive' or 'racist'. Some people are against this idea as they believe the gallery would be wiping away history. Others are for this change, as many of the artists didn't title their art, it was done by curation.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/dec/15/artworks-racist-titles-rijksmuseum-amsterdam

In small groups were given the task of selecting 3-4 pieces from the archive and come up with a story, also noting how the pieces of work inspired us to come up with out chosen story. we also had to caption the original pieces of work and how the pieces of work would be displayed if we had our own exhibition.

After selecting our chosen pieces from the archive, we began to come up with idea. The first thing we noticed was that the theme of 'emotions' connected our pieces. Then we came up with the idea of narrating the stages of life. From a baby, to a grown man. The character of 'Bill' then commenced. 

The story of Bill.

"Baby bill was born and he had a big heart. He was free. One day he was told that he had to grow up. He kicked and screamed. When he eventually grew up, he tried to do all the things the media told him would make him happy. So he ended up buying a fancy car. But inside he was still unhappy. So he drew a smile on his car. It was a constant reminder that he was pretending to be happy on the outside, while on the inside he was sad. He wanted to break the mold, and make everyone happy. So he wrote a zine on politics called 'Shake it and break it'. Although he dreamed of his zine selling world wide and changing society, it only sold a few copies at 90p each. Due to his zine being an anti-thatcher zine, Margret Thatcher had him assassinated, feeling as though he had too much potential. Strange enough, the assassin later became Princess Diana's driver..." 

Blog Post written by Alexandra Clifford. 
Group work done by Beth Ashley, Kevin Kissane, Ellorra Sutton and Alex Clifford.