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Group process
Nick Slater and Kathrin Böhm relate the project by public works and myvillages.org, commissioned as part of Radar’s ’Group Process’ programme.
I had been aware of public works' practice for a number of years and was particularly interested in the Park Products project that they had done for the Serpentine Gallery, and another of Kathrin's initiatives called myvillages.org. When putting together a new programme called 'Group Process', which was a series of commissions to artists whose practice is about collaboration, exchange and interaction, I immediately thought of inviting them. In the initial research phase I see my role as one of providing local knowledge and facilitating visits or contact with relevant individuals. Once the ideas are formed then the second stage involves supporting the artist in successfully realising their initial concept, making sure that the project lives up to initial expectations and that the quality of the production is high. With regard to the former my initial job was to communicate aspects of the context, whether that be geographic, historic or social, that the artist was coming to work in, picking out things that from my knowledge of her practice that I thought would be of interest. While Loughborough University's Sports Technology Institute might not have been somewhere that you would...
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