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Heather and Ivan Morison Download the Situations Paper report here with two newly commissioned essays and records of the public responses to the work throughout the day. This new work by Heather and Ivan Morison for the British Art Show 6 was the latest in the Morisons’ ongoing investigation into the commercial flower industry, looking specifically this time at the haulage of flowers from auction to wholesalers. For one day, a jack-knifed lorry shed its load of 25,000 flowers across Bristol City Centre. At 6pm, passers-by began to take the flowers and by 7pm the installation was entirely dispersed across Bristol, as people walked home carrying armfuls of flowers. A card mailed out a few days prior to the installation giving a possible narrative link with the lorry crash. Download card The Morisons’ artworks convey the simple pleasures and passions of their endeavours and of those they meet, from amateur floristry to beekeeping. The formal outcomes of their investigations include postcards sent to a growing mailing list, LED displays of text messages, slide shows, LP recordings of conversations, radio broadcasts, special one-off events and science-fiction novels written whilst in transit. Many of these blend factual recall with fictionalisation, merging information into a shifting narrative that builds on the mythology of Heather and Ivan Morison’s lives and the lives of the people they encounter. The artists disucssed this work at a special presentation on Saturday 2 September at R O O M. Other works by the Morisons in the British Art Show 6 were exhibited at Arnolfini, Museum and Art Gallery and R O O M. To visit their website click here. Heather and Ivan Morison went on to work with Situations on the Arts and Ecology residency programme for the RSA and Gulgenkian Foundation. Click here to read about the research they carried out during their stay in Bristol. |
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