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Reflections on networking – Introduction
Jane Watt on the first of two publications that give an overview of NAN activity to date.
In September 2005 I was commissioned to undertake a review of the Networking Artists’ Networks (NAN) initiative. A review, by its very nature, suggests contextualising and analysing achievements, shortfalls and presenting possible future developments. These elements all come under my remit as reviewer, but the first main outcome of this research – this publication – reflects a-n The Artists Information Company’s continuing primary concern, as stated in my brief , to “create meaningful platforms for artists’ voices to be heard and for their practices to be recognised as an important aspect of social change”. Therefore, the following pages do not represent an analysis of NAN (this analysis will be published in July 2006 as part of a-n Collections). Rather, they include a collection of reflections by some of the artists who have experienced NAN, whether it is through taking part in, or organising, an event, a research trip or a bursary. This material has been generated from a variety of sources and is laid out to encourage reading, and thinking, between different experiences and opinions. Mark Gubb’s ‘Networker’ and ‘Have NAN...
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