a place to be a place to see
Without further ado, I can now officially anounce that F A C E Smcr will be proud to present the faces OF manchester as recorded on the 8th of May at Kraak gallery, in the Lever St windows of FRED ALDOUS.
We are fortunate to have a window in this space because they have recently acquired this photobooth which they have asked us to promote as part of our installation.
For the side window, we plan to mount our photographs from our event onto mount board and suspend them at different heights and setbacks from the window in order to create a 3 dimensional installation. We were thinking of using fishing line to suspend them as this is probably the strongest medium.
Onto the glass of the window itself, we will then mark out, from a street level perspective, frames for each of the pictures; as they will all be different sizes and distances from the window we are hoping to have a diverse range of these, and some of them will most likely overlap. After marking out we will be drawing them from the inside of the window using removable glass paint or those pens which write on glass (chalk pens? I’m not sure!).
We are thinking we might, from our own designs, get some vinyl frames cut so as we are using both a loose, artistic style and more refined graphic approach. We also hope to have our logo printed in vinyl and a short blurb to sit in one corner of the window.
We have a lot of negatives from disposable cameras we used at the event. We intend to create a long slim box which these will sit in that can be looked into. The idea is that this will sit inside the store and be something people can interact and engage with from both sides. This may possibly be better displayed nearer the photobooth, as the negatives will be in a similar style to the print outs.

For promoting the photo-booth, we were thinking of putting some of our pictures together in the same style as the booth print outs, perhaps with blank spaces in a vinyl lay with a ‘get your face involved’ or something along those lines in it. We have been talking about creating something physically around the photo-booth which spills over into the window; perhaps something interactive where people can put up their own photos? From our event we have a fair amount of photos which people have interacted with and drawn onto in response, so we thought this would be somewhere good for them to engage visitors encouraging them to play and get involved through taking their own.
With any luck, we might be able to get some of our vinyl cuts and materials from Fred Aldous themselves, not holding out for it but it is certainly a possibility! I have sent these details along to Paul at Fred Aldous for him to look over and have promised him an update on friday.
We have come on a lot since our event and I am really pleased with how the group has been working together on this exhibition stage. From here, we need to continue as we have been doing in order to produce as strong an installation as possible within the remaining time frame. We have arranged to do a mock up of our work tomorrow in 20/22 with some acetate and fishing line, so fingers crossed we can iron any issues out before we start making on location next tuesday.

