Juxtapose 1
I thoroughly enjoy seeing Glitter Ball take form. Coming here is a significant step in my re-engaging with … re-activating … re-imagining … Glitter Ball. I see the presentation come together – with familiar visual identifiers from the Enköping showroom days. And I hear myself introducing Glitter Ball to my fellow exhibitors and the fair guests.
It is also very exciting for familiar professional colleagues to see me as an artist – several have mentioned this. To many I am the (Supermarket) Meetings coordinator, and they imagine that I my world is one of discussion, management, and curation. Now they are seeing me with materials, objects, and forms – the world that I would call my first world.
Roberto asked my why I do this … not just Juxtapose but my involvement … commitment … to the artist-run. It was/is a good question. What I find so appealing about the artist-run is its incongruity in an increasingly capital-driven and individualistic world. There seems to be in integral politic that I feel very comfortable with. We are doing this because it needs to be done. We are interested in where it (whatever this that we do is) touches other spheres … where it is in relations to other spheres, what opportunities it offers – not only to those of us directly engaged in it but also in wider contexts … what ripples can we make … what ideas can we test … what edges can we push … what spaces can we create …
There is a generosity that I do not recognise elsewhere.
For me the artist-run is not just familiar – it is family.
And it is so very very right that I am here now
