It’s nice to see the peeps at the Ikon making more use of audio and video on their website. The latest offering is a video documentary on the installation process and work of Shahzia Sikander whose exhibition, ‘Intimate Ambivalence‘ will be at the Ikon Gallery until 14 September.
Chris Keenan (Prime Objective) produced the video and talks about it on the Prime Objective blog. You can see the video itself as the first part of a slideshow on the Ikon Gallery site.
Like I say, it’s good to see this sort of thing but personally I’d like to see a little more (demanding sod that I am). In case anyone from the gallery is reading, here’s a cheeky wishlist:
- Videos to be uploaded somewhere like Vimeo or YouTube so they can be embedded on other sites (like this one). It’s free and I guarantee you’d get more viewers.
- A media section with all your audio/video in one place – I found searching for past items (like the ‘In Conversation’ recordings) far too tricky.
- Actually is anything happening with the ‘These Are A Few Of My Favourtite Things’ audio? I was at Ian Francis (7 Inch Cinema)’s talk and saw it being recorded. Why not use these sorts of things to make a podcast that people could subscribe to?
Just thought I’d say that I went to the Ikon today with my daughter and both of us loved both of the current exhibitions including this one.
I agree – getting more background after seeing an exhibition gives the art more permanence and for me and I get a better understanding of it.
But I emphasise the _after_ – I always read the exhibition notes after forming my own opinion. I didn’t realise during the exhibition that there was content online that I could view after seeing it – they should make that more obvious on the wall of the exhibition so that I am reminded to go to the site on my return home.