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Erika Tan
Erica Tan describes her career as requiring her to undertake different roles, of which ’artist’ and ’curator’ are only two of many.
I see my practice not as an 'artist-curator' but a multiplicity of practices where my job title as such, expands or contracts depending on the situation: artist/curator/researcher/writer/consultant/educator reflects more appropriately the shifting parameters and focus of my work. This 'expanded field' is in part a response that I consider to be one of 'need', where, 'need' covers both the ability to financially sustain myself, but equally of importance, to find ways of sustaining the development of my practice as an artist. The roles of curating, writing, arts consultancy are ways in which I can attempt to have some dialogue with or impact upon the wider art structures that provide the opportunities, the frameworks, the interpretations and ultimately the limitations that can be placed on my art work. My art practice is often a search for context, curating is in many ways an extension of this, providing ways to create contexts that I might as an artist be interested to work with, or to allow a diversity of decisions and explorations through working with other artists that I might not enjoy if concentrating purely on my own work. It is the 'expanded dialogue' that the 'expanded...
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