I took a call yesterday from an artist duo interested to work with me as a curator. It was an interesting chat and I hope it helped them in their project whether they work with me in the future or not. Whilst I’m mindful of ‘working for free’, I often work on the basis of giving a little generosity and time can be personally and collectively beneficial if you can afford that time, and conversations are never one way including the notion of benefit/reward/gift (see Chantal Mouffe’s Gift Economy).
In our conversation, I raised the idea of capturing audience opinion/engagement and different strategies they could employ depending on logistics. I told them dialogue was my focus at the moment and would be of critical interest. We had chats about physical construction, material specificity, funding and PR tactics and left it at they would see what the outcome of their current and imminent applications would be.
Interesting project and conversations around it.
