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Curatorial practice
What is an artist-curator? What makes a good collaborative partnership between a curator and an artist? What financial, practical and critical support is available? Do you work with an organisation or go it alone?
These are some of the questions that artists, curators, organisers and funders have pondered in a rich mix of articles, tours, profiles and interviews. They reveal what makes them tick, what inspires them and what it means to be involved in curatorial practice today.
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Production values
Alicia Miller considers the relationship between artist and curator in collaborative projects. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine May 2003
Random acts of art
In spring 2010 Spacex invited three UK-based artists to develop new work in response to Exeter's West Quarter, where the gallery is located. The artists facilitated collaborative encounters and conversations with local residents. Amy Feneck interviewed people about the notion of 'independent spirit' in order to develop a script for a new film, Epilogue. Operating from her mobile portraiture studio, Lady Lucy documented encounters in her paintings 'The Court Portraits'. Volkhardt Müller worked with people to create a series of performed actions on video. Majorette Rehearsing centered around the idea of the majorette as a West Quarter archetype; a paradoxical figure of individual aspiration, community celebration and carnival. For this feature, Volkhardt Müller reflects on his project with Spacex Project Coordinator, Martha Crean. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine June 2010
Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven
Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss their collaboration on a project to create a sculptural 'habitat' that will contribute to the life cycle of birds in two urban garden locations. Read on…
Feature, a-n.co.uk October 2010
The artist formerly known as curator
A recent forum in Dundee addressed issues surrounding curatorial practice and the relationship between artist and curator. Rob Hunter attended and reports back. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine January 2002
The new territory
Jeremy Akerman talks to curator Jeremy Millar and artists Annelies Oberdanner and Tariq Alvi and asks what curators and artists want from each other. Read on…
Feature, a-n Magazine February 2004
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