Curator Renaud Proche co-curated a series of archives of stuff in an artists studio:
http://the-backroom.org
When visiting an artist Renaud’s started to notice the things on an artists fridge door, the postcards on the walls and the tat that they had collected. He felt that by noticing these things he was starting to take in the things that were at the back of an artists mind.
As a visitor to the archives you were free to go through the artists stuff with no curatorial input.
Manilla files, archive boxes, sectioned filing cabinets, magazine racks, covered walls with cardboard with a selection of stuff.on, a TV hooked up and a sound station.
Renaud felt it was important to show this collection of culturally interesting and relevant things that might not get out into the world.
With each exhibition the material shown was different-relevant to the place where it was being shown (like a Medieval storyteller moving from town to town and adapting the stories) making it more live and alive.
