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# SPIKE IT - INFO
# slow down time, focus and revisit the ordinary, the usual, the routine…. # SPIKE(s) are now being situated in offices as an integral element to “Office Investigations’; a series of residencies and events to explore notions of paper - work, flow, production consumption and waste with office workers and managers. # Locating SPIKE in work environments creates an intervention where the audience shape the work. SPIKE becomes a vehicle for shared dialogue around notions of paper-work. # SPIKE has two main focuses, one as paper as an object, a material and resource and the other on workers relationship with paper in the course of work practices. # The visualisation of spiked paper as it grows up the spike, creates an awareness of the use of paper as a material and a resource. The SPIKE creates sculptural bar charts revealing a stratus of evidence from the office and references process, work flow, production, and waste. # Paper and the use of paper as an object is such a common and quoadation activity. Paper is intrinsic with communication, and how we react to the printed page as content is explored through the “act of spiking’. The physical experience, draws responses from the aggressive to ambivalent. Spiking can be emblematic of our relationship with [the] paper. # background The initial motivation for SPIKE evolved from my constant production of paperwork as a necessary act in the course of my practice as artist. The quantity and content of paper collected revealed references to process, flow, production, evidence, trace and repetition. # # SPIKE project is brought to you by artist Jeannie Driver. www.jeanniedriver.com # This project has only been made possible by development funding gratefully received from arts council. # Thanks to all individuals participants, mentors, friends and colleagues. ### ###