rising tides of bureaucracy
“dedicated to the hundreds of unknowing participants, whose work,
effort and time have helped create the material for this exhibition.”
Jeannie Driver
Jeannie’s socially engaged practice explores issues and experiences common to us all. Her aim is to create situations and catalysts that encourage a re-examination of everyday life issues to raise thought, dialogue and debate.
As a starting point for her work, Jeannie, has always sought a ubiquitous object or action, one that almost everyone will have a pre-existing relationship or experience of. However, although there is a commonality of experience, it also represents a complex range of issues, connections and individual associations. The majority of people have some form of relationship with paper, and paper work; the concept of being swamped, the repetitiveness of work, the visual reference of black type on a white page.
Rising Tides of Bureaucracy is the artist’s response to an ongoing and consuming relationship with paper and paper work. The artist has selected this office for the installation for its architectural merits to play with notions of ‘quantity’ as other artists may explore ‘scale’.
Although shredded paper has a generic quality and reference, each shred with its own unknown history intrigues the artist.
Rising Tides of Bureaucracy is the latest installation by Jeannie Driver that has derived from her experiences as a freelance artist, project manager and consultant. Creating works as a visual response to working as a researcher first began being in 1998 with stack , a work relating to issues of access. In 2007 the artist developed SPIKE IT, a participatory project that located 6ft spike files into seven different offices for workers to impale their waste paper.
Work Play, a solo exhibition by Jeannie Driver in March 2009, included, confidential, a series of three artworks, constructed from notice boards, and shredded documents.
no paper has been ‘wasted’ for the purpose of this installation.
“All shredded paper will be recycled- most probably into toilet rolls (so my recycling agent tells me!) It’s interesting that shredded paper has a new life as a commodity and its value changes.” JD
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