Cheapside Show

With less than two weeks to go before we launch our show, it has been a hectic time of making work and making decisions about the look, publicity and logistics of the event.

We met with our technician a few days ago, and for the first time we all got to see the venue together. It was only at this point, that we had the first oppurtunity to look at the space collectivly and visualise where all of the work would be placed. The event has three installations and this in itself is challenging for the curation of the show, as it is important that we get the flow of the work right and the audience experience as they walk around the show, is as we would like it to be. Until work starts on building the installations, we have only an idea of what the layout will turn out like.

Well things are taking up pace now. We have all met several times in the past week to discuss/plan for the event which takes place in 4 weeks time. Our website was launched this weekend and can be fouind at www.strange-ways.org

Curation and the look of the show is really important to us as we want to use a Victorian fairground theme throughtout to unify the diversity of work. We want the show to look playful, be thought provoking, memorable and to a certain extent, indulgent.

Two of us have talked about having a tea party on the first Saturday of the show, as an informal way of bringing in audiences and welcoming discussion of the event.