Questions for artists
As a prelude to writing up some more reflective notes from my meetings with Emma Smith and Erica Scourti. Here are some of the questions that I asked them. It makes apparent some of the things I am thinking about for my own work:
-How do you find and create opportunities for your work?
-How do you initiate, develop and structure projects?
-How do you think about the process of collaboration and find people to collaborate with? (existing contacts?, ‘types’ of people i.e. professional expertise, initiating relationships, managing expectations and keeping people informed, their authorship? What do they get out of it? payment?)
-What is your working relationship with collaborators and commissioners?
-How do you find funding for your work?
-Who do you think are your audience?
-How do you critically locate your practice?
-What is the legacy for your work after a particular event or commission has taken place?
-Does/How does one project lead to another?…how do you narrate your practice when you look back at past work, how do you imagine your practice looking into the future?
