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Beyond borders
Working internationally, and how this informs an individual artist’s practice, need not only be about physical travel. Gavin Wade and Aleksandra Mir give personal assessments of their involvement in two different projects. Both projects are ongoing, constantly evolving, and involve a process of research and collaboration with individuals and organisations from different countries. The results of this methodology – the surrendering of a degree of individual authorship – influences the physical manifestation of each artist’s final work.
A 3in1 Personal Evaluation Report 3in1 is a variable art-production structure developed by Per Hüttner and myself over the last couple of years. We were interested in pursuing ideas from different vantage points, and discussed and tweaked ideas of how to follow through other artists ideas within a circuit of production which could lead to personal and group development. The 3in1 circuit was completed when we invited Goshka Macuga to be the third protagonist within an exhibition at Nylon Gallery. We stripped the idea down to the basics of each artist/curator providing a written proposal for an artwork which they would produce and which would also be produced by the other two. This would lead to three versions of three ideas, potentially allowing comparison and evaluation of the artworks and the entire procedure. For me the opportunity to expand and adapt my personal vocabulary and practice as an artist or as a curator has always been at the heart of the 3in1 project. So the three of us are artist/curators from three different countries: UK, Sweden and Poland. But we all know London pretty well. Per runs a gallery in Stockholm called Konstakuten and has lived in the UK on...
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