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Independent perspectives
Emily Druiff and Sophie Hope discuss independent practice in relation self-initiated curator and artist-led projects.
The term independent curating seems to have a certain amount of cache at the moment. It leaves you in anticipation of the real or the uncensored. Possibly even promising to reveal a more political or radical practice that is active within contemporary art. But beyond this façade of sincerity, what does independent curating actually mean? Emily Druiff (ED) is employed full time by the University of the Arts, London as Director of Peckham Space and Sophie Hope (SH) is self-employed and an AHRC-funded student doing her practice-based PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. They discuss their different experiences of practice and employment in an attempt to understand what it really means to them to be 'independent'. The questions and examples are by no means exhaustive but instead are intended to open up some of the terminology.
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