June meeting

2006-06-30T16:54:00.000+10:00

Another successful meeting was held at Rics last night with many ideas being thrown around. The General Will is exhibiting at Firstdraft in August 2006. Opening night is Wednesday 9th August. Two apartments are being rented to house everyone for the installation period prior to the shows opening. We welcome anyone to come to Sydney that week and join in the fun for this our second exhibition. Also upcoming is a SOOB (straight out of Brisbane) event in which The General Will will construct - deconstruct furniture on the Goodwill bridge for an afternoon. More details on that nearer the time.

Collective statement

2006-06-15T23:46:00.000+10:00

The four artists in this collective recognise that their disparate practices feed their interest in a common theme, the reconciliation of daily life within an artistic framework.

While each member addresses their own conceptual concerns through different methods and materials, their strength as a group lies in their shared commitment to unabated discourse about new methods for producing and presenting contemporary art. Through weekly meetings, the collective debates contemporary ideas and visual culture. They anticipate discussion as preliminary to action and as an opportunity to express their individual understanding of their commonality. That commonality is often best expressed in understated jibes at their own worldview. This thread runs through the collective sum of their work, lending it a reassuring mix of credibility and humility.

Each artist in the group will respond to the practice of the other, creating an individual response to the collective effort. The response will be the culmination of conversation as artistic process. As such, the works will not refer directly to each other but will inter-reference the sharedness or rejection of known ideals, influences, and beliefs that inform the others’ practice. Through subtle reference to each other, the artists will both confirm and negate their own individual identities to find new possibilities of how work can be read as either mutually supportive or as isolated moments of belief.
A delicate struggle to find consensus while maintaining individuality.