Site of Ghosts (Fka "Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage", fka "You Are Here")
Solo exhibition
Project Space at Turf Projects
Croydon, UK
5-12 October 2024
Presented alongside Conditions Exhibition 2023-24
Untitled, bare space/A Site of Ghosts (Doc.)
Exhibition text & floor plan (Doc.)
Exhibition poster (PDF)
Solo exhibition
Project Space at Turf Projects
Croydon, UK
5-12 October 2024
Presented alongside Conditions Exhibition 2023-24
Untitled, bare space/A Site of Ghosts (Doc.)
Exhibition text & floor plan (Doc.)
Exhibition poster (PDF)
Proposal for An Opening
Wood and corrugated plastic double-doors with brass hinges and sign, blue tape, brass screws
Score: Remove doors to Turf studios. Lay doors flat, on top of one another. Improve doors, at Turf’s request. Replace doors after exhibition.
2024
Wood and corrugated plastic double-doors with brass hinges and sign, blue tape, brass screws
Score: Remove doors to Turf studios. Lay doors flat, on top of one another. Improve doors, at Turf’s request. Replace doors after exhibition.
2024
Proposal for Stasis
Pencil on paper, green masking tape taken from Conditions
Score: Draw found handwritten note placed on top of materials in Conditions studio.
2024
Pencil on paper, green masking tape taken from Conditions
Score: Draw found handwritten note placed on top of materials in Conditions studio.
2024
Proposal for An Opening ii
Red tape
Score: Demarcate the absence of the double-doors to Turf studios.
2024
Red tape
Score: Demarcate the absence of the double-doors to Turf studios.
2024
Untitled, bare store/ A Site of Ghosts
Inkjet print on paper (exhibition text, exhibition floor plan, list of works, exhibition poster, QR code), PDF document (email correspondence, digital images, photographs, screenshots, hyperlinks to SketchUp files)
Score: Present exhibition proposals.
2024
Exhibition text & floor plan (Doc.)
Untitled, bare store/A Site of Ghosts (Doc.)
Inkjet print on paper (exhibition text, exhibition floor plan, list of works, exhibition poster, QR code), PDF document (email correspondence, digital images, photographs, screenshots, hyperlinks to SketchUp files)
Score: Present exhibition proposals.
2024
Exhibition text & floor plan (Doc.)
Untitled, bare store/A Site of Ghosts (Doc.)
Proposal for An Afterimage
Pencil rubbing on 80 gsm paper, 4 white plastic drawing pins borrowed from pinboard in Turf kitchenette
Score: Design and make ceramic signage reading “YOU ARE HERE” in clear glazed terracotta using Turf ceramics space. Mount sign in Project Space with screws into wall. Take pencil rubbing of sign. Pin pencil rubbing to cork tile wall. Remove ceramic sign.
2024
Pencil rubbing on 80 gsm paper, 4 white plastic drawing pins borrowed from pinboard in Turf kitchenette
Score: Design and make ceramic signage reading “YOU ARE HERE” in clear glazed terracotta using Turf ceramics space. Mount sign in Project Space with screws into wall. Take pencil rubbing of sign. Pin pencil rubbing to cork tile wall. Remove ceramic sign.
2024
Closing Hours
Terracotta ceramic, string, suction cup
Score: Design and make ceramic sign reading “CLOSED”, to be hung on the front door during closing hours only.
2024
Terracotta ceramic, string, suction cup
Score: Design and make ceramic sign reading “CLOSED”, to be hung on the front door during closing hours only.
2024
Josh Philpott ft. Gem Milsom
Details are gone, but an impression remains
Dust, white cotton scrap, sebum on glass, adhesive on glass, black gaffa tape, 5 metre cassette reel extension cable with black and silver gaffa tape, cellotape, scrunched wax paper, found post-it note with details of a past event handwritten in ballpoint pen, acrylic pen on glass traced by Gem Milsom, found white paint smears and spatters on wooden floor, scrape marks, 3 pins, black round cable clip, 3 self-adhesive plastic and metal ceiling hooks, self adhesive metal wall hook, 2 metal hoops in wall, holes in wall, black paint drips on wall, self adhesive plastic wall clip, unidentified red smear on wall, unidentified smudges on wall, transparent plastic drawing pin in cork tile, fragment of plastic food wrapping, chewing gum trodden into wooden floor, black cotton threads, assorted fluff, white plastic drawing pin, blue tack, broken wooden skirting, human hair with blue tack and assorted dust, masking tape, black thread intertwined with blue and white thread, green paint on wooden floor, biscuit crumbs with pink thread, lint with hair and light brown thread, plastic coated twist tie, chalk residue on blackboard, white painted wooden and glass vitrine, white painted wooden plinth, 2 wooden tables, 4 wood and metal benches, printed polyester banner with blue tape in metal grommets left behind by previous occupier of the Project Space, green plastic chairs belonging to Turf Projects, green masking tape scrunched up and added by Josh Philpott
Score: All walls, floor, ceiling, windows, and surfaces to be left uncleaned and untouched to bear traces of previous exhibitions and occupancy of the space.
2024
Details are gone, but an impression remains
Dust, white cotton scrap, sebum on glass, adhesive on glass, black gaffa tape, 5 metre cassette reel extension cable with black and silver gaffa tape, cellotape, scrunched wax paper, found post-it note with details of a past event handwritten in ballpoint pen, acrylic pen on glass traced by Gem Milsom, found white paint smears and spatters on wooden floor, scrape marks, 3 pins, black round cable clip, 3 self-adhesive plastic and metal ceiling hooks, self adhesive metal wall hook, 2 metal hoops in wall, holes in wall, black paint drips on wall, self adhesive plastic wall clip, unidentified red smear on wall, unidentified smudges on wall, transparent plastic drawing pin in cork tile, fragment of plastic food wrapping, chewing gum trodden into wooden floor, black cotton threads, assorted fluff, white plastic drawing pin, blue tack, broken wooden skirting, human hair with blue tack and assorted dust, masking tape, black thread intertwined with blue and white thread, green paint on wooden floor, biscuit crumbs with pink thread, lint with hair and light brown thread, plastic coated twist tie, chalk residue on blackboard, white painted wooden and glass vitrine, white painted wooden plinth, 2 wooden tables, 4 wood and metal benches, printed polyester banner with blue tape in metal grommets left behind by previous occupier of the Project Space, green plastic chairs belonging to Turf Projects, green masking tape scrunched up and added by Josh Philpott
Score: All walls, floor, ceiling, windows, and surfaces to be left uncleaned and untouched to bear traces of previous exhibitions and occupancy of the space.
2024
Song of Ungrounding
Live Recordings of Ghosts
Speaker, cables, media player, MP3 file (audio: 34 m 14 s, looped)
Track list:
- You Are Here (Demo) - Live from Ambitions Graveyard (main space), Norwich, 19/07/24
- You Are Here (Demo) - Live from Ambitions Graveyard (side room), Norwich 19/07/24
- You Are Here (Demo) - Live from Ambitions Graveyard (mezzanine), Norwich, 19/07/24
Credits:
Josh Philpott - microphones, speakers, delay pedal
Gem Milsom - technical support
Score: Set up two microphones on stands and two speakers in the round facing into the room. Record microphones through a delay pedal, play output in real time through speakers to build a feedback loop that fills the space. Record process. Play displaced sound into Project Space. Listen.
2024
Proposal to read unrealised proposals
Score: Read unrealised proposals
Performed at Conditions to open Conditions Exhibition 2023-24, 5th October 3:30pm
Performed at the Project Space at Turf Projects to close Site of Ghosts (Fka “Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage”, fka “You Are Here”), 12th October 4pm
2024
Score: Read unrealised proposals
Performed at Conditions to open Conditions Exhibition 2023-24, 5th October 3:30pm
Performed at the Project Space at Turf Projects to close Site of Ghosts (Fka “Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage”, fka “You Are Here”), 12th October 4pm
2024
