practicing

Last night, I went to a dinner organized by PEW charitable trusts, a big arts funder in the US. I liked their description of the characteristics of the curatorial projects they favour: ‘Excellence, imagination, courage’. There were about fifteen or twenty of us; everyone else runs small collective spaces while I guess I’m classed as an independent. We had to say something about our ambitions for our curatorial practice–so curators have practices too! Not sure if I have a curatorial practice, but I said something about my ambitions anyway: facilitating transatlantic exchange and working within the shared spaces between visual art, writing and research. Anyway, hearing about how to get funding was inspiring in terms of dreaming up relevant projects–though I won’t be eligible until next June, and only if I get another couple of shows under my belt by then.