12/7/12 Sonia Boyce and Barby Asante: Towards a Hybrid Gallery Space
Talk at Chelsea College. With Emily Druiff (Peckham Space and hosted by Paul Goodwin.
People as the palette that artsists work with. Is it relational aesthetics, political (Claire Bishop, Thomas Hirschorn) or is it about dialogue (Grant Kestler)? Difficult for institutions, so need a new curatorial framework: hybrid, as in Peckham Space, where curatorial and education are equal. Rather than curators as selectors and education as crowd-pleasers. Work over long time period with artists, developing the brief.
Barby: wanted dialogue about issues around identity. ‘Wig therapist’ in Brixton hairdressers. Open, responsive, receptive. South London Black Music Archive: listen, share, contribute. ‘Do this sort of work because I want to’.
Authorship: who is being used?
Work to be valued as art or social outcomes: a false separation?
Art to be valued as a transformative experience
