Tate Forum devised an Art Bingo game around the theme of destruction to explore their ideas further. Here are instructions for playing Art Bingo
1. Select a photograph and choose a pose from a figure within the photo’s composition. Tate Forum chose photographs from the How We Are: Photographing Britain exhibition at Tate Britain.
2. Make a record of this photo via sketch.
3. Take a digital photo of yourself or a friend in your selected pose.
4. Reproduce the digital photo as an A3 image with a grid of 9 numbered boxes, 1 image per person.
5. Each number relates to using a specific medium or material to destruct the image.
6. A number is called out and you must destruct a section of the picture.
7. You have 3-5minutes to destruct a section of the printed photo. Once you have destructed a section of the image pass the image to the person next to you.
8. Wait to be told the corresponding number for the next section and the form of destruction
9. This process will continue until all 9 forms of destruction have been done.
I have looked at your efforts and I am greatly pleased. I think you somewhat sidestepped my first provocation by deciding that you yourselves were your parent’s most valued possessions. I had imagined some nice dresses, ties, ornaments, trinkets and other valuable parental stuff being ‘rectified’… but I guess that was a too much to ask. But since you have shown great sophistication in subverting my attempts to get you into trouble, I would like you to continue on the theme of destruction. This time, forget the face paint and burning things willy-nilly, I want you to make some pieces of art (in any medium) investigating the theme of destruction in art. I would like to pose a question: Is destruction a necessary process in overcoming traditional forms of art?
Good luck. jake.
After staging a happening in response to Jake Chapman’s challenge, Tate Forum used glue, sticky tape and photographs taken during the event and created individual representations based on personal memories of the process.
You can see some of the images they created below.
Tate Forum, the Young Tate group at Tate Britain, felt that a collective response to the challenge was best as Tate Forum are a team despite being very much individuals! Here is their account of what they did.
“We decided to gather together things that were valued to us as both individuals and as a group…
A message was sent to all Tate Forum members – All invited to come, bring your friends to get involved!!!!
