Process Watch is a digital collage inframed in a outdoor poster display with two key-locks. Collage was made a few hours before the opening out of several types of real-time data from the day of the exhibition: weather reports from various cities around the world, currency exchange rates, stock exchange statistics, commodity prices, satellite footage, Moon phase and location, etc. The data gathered in the form of screenshots from the internet was then assembled in Photoshop. Fundamentally unique occurence of particular weather and economic conditions of the day were further intensified by freehand digital tool use. The print is locked in a frame and will exist as a singular piece - a document to the reality of the moment and a product of the conditions that led to it.

Started in June 2011, Hotel Palenque is presenting a number of artists’ commissions in different art spaces around Europe. Each artist is commissioned to create an artwork which has to follow a simple set of production rules. Firstly the work must be produced or reproduced to an A0 format (0.8 × 1.2m) and secondly all digital files and associated materials will be destroyed prior to the work being shown.

This project consciously removes the reproducible qualities of the digital to artificially create an original. If the selected artist usually works in three dimensions, Hotel Palenque aims to challenge their practice by offering an opportunity to create a new work that responds to the format and the specific location where it will be exhibited.

Questioning traditional modes of display, Hotel Palenque will present one artwork at a time, during a one night event. Hotel Palenque’s intention is to focus the attention of the viewer onto one single artwork; further emphasising the idea of the original by limiting its existence in time as well as space. Every artwork is photographed when displayed and then archived online.

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