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Charlotte Frost on some of the production activities of the Newcastle- and London-based Forma, drawing out different strands of its programme including curation, representation, initiation, distribution and public art.
David Metcalfe founded production agency Forma in 2002 and was supported from the outset by Arts Council England revenue funding. Prior to this, Metcalfe had worked as an Arts Officer for Nottingham City Council where, among other things, he had founded and directed the Now festival for five years, commissioning a great deal of its content. As the city was short of suitable spaces for presenting art, Metcalfe had been forced to experiment with programming work in and around a variety of venues and sites. Added to the fact he was already working with art forms that were blurring traditional medium-defined boundaries, he discovered he had been given the perfect opportunity to cultivate the skills (and, as he puts it, “fearlessness”) required to form an organisation specialising in inter-disciplinary art production. In the interim years between the formation of Metcalfe’s original production agency, David Metcalfe Associates, and its incarnation as Forma, Metcalfe went on to work successfully as an independent producer with artists such as Bureau of Inverse Technology, Disinformation, Christian Fennesz and Jon Wozencroft, Ryoji Ikeda, Saburo Teshingawara, Richard...
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