Amelia showed us some of her early work, which included her live performances. These performances involved a lot of organising before hand to get people taking part, a lot of the performances involved running through town centres trying to get people involved in a live performance. Amelia spoke about how after graduating from university she became involved in curating, having organised and created exhibitions of artists work since 2007.
A main part of the lecture was evolved around a current live project that Amelia set herself. 2010 Challenge was a series of art work that Amelia has created over the year of 2010. This project involved 12 challenges over 12 months which concluded in one project. Amelia asked lots of people to challenge her in many different ways, for which she had to use the challenge as a starting point for art work. She did mention that initially she tried to choose the hardest challenges, however through the course of the year she began to choose the challenges with quality of art work to be produced in mind.
This is an example of the work that was produced by Amelia in the month of March;
'To list and act appropriately towards all the people to whom you owe apologies.
I am not challenging you to write letters to every single person you owe apologies to, in some cases this may be inappropriate, and re-approaching someone you have hurt in the past, may be upsetting for them again. I trust you to have a degree of discretion about who you choose to apologise to. I would like you to think of and write down, everyone you may have upset, hurt, wronged, stolen from, angered or done other activity that could warrant an apology, however great or small, and to write these down, along with dates, names, activities etc, that can be remembered, in a fashion as to which you see appropriate. These needn't be exhibited in their entirety, again, discretion would be a necessity. Some form of public statement should be acknowledged for every wrong-doing/occasion; the published details of the wrongdoings are at your discretion. The apologies must not state that they have come from a challenge, or that I have told you to do this. The apologies you do make, if any, must be genuine and honest.
This might be quite a horrible thing to have to do. So I will add one additional condition: that you can stop thinking about this if you start to feel uncomfortably anxious or guilty. While it might be interesting to work through times like these, I think it is important that you have the option to stop when you need it.'
I am not challenging you to write letters to every single person you owe apologies to, in some cases this may be inappropriate, and re-approaching someone you have hurt in the past, may be upsetting for them again. I trust you to have a degree of discretion about who you choose to apologise to. I would like you to think of and write down, everyone you may have upset, hurt, wronged, stolen from, angered or done other activity that could warrant an apology, however great or small, and to write these down, along with dates, names, activities etc, that can be remembered, in a fashion as to which you see appropriate. These needn't be exhibited in their entirety, again, discretion would be a necessity. Some form of public statement should be acknowledged for every wrong-doing/occasion; the published details of the wrongdoings are at your discretion. The apologies must not state that they have come from a challenge, or that I have told you to do this. The apologies you do make, if any, must be genuine and honest.
This might be quite a horrible thing to have to do. So I will add one additional condition: that you can stop thinking about this if you start to feel uncomfortably anxious or guilty. While it might be interesting to work through times like these, I think it is important that you have the option to stop when you need it.'
Challenged by Tom Duggan
It was interesting to hear about how Amelia had to think of all the people she owed apologies to and find an appropriate way of displaying that apology. She mentioned several of the small apologies she had to make to people. In some cases she found this more difficult as she hadn't seen the individual for several years. Each apology was photographed. As an art work Amelia also did a live act of performance, where she wrote a note of apology to each person she needed to apologise to and then she attached this to a balloon which read sorry and let them off at the top of Nottigham castle. This was a active act of apology where she completed the challenge. At the end of her lecture Amelia handed out some slips of paper, where she encouraged us to write out a challenge for the person sitting next to us to complete over the next month. This encouraged us to think carefully about the art work that we produce and why we want to produce it. It was also useful in helping us to think more creatively about the world around us, using a challenge to think creatively in how we could turn that into art.
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