Caroline Fisher gave a good talk last night – concise, clear, focussed and full of interesting information about the curatorial process within the High Society show at the Wellcome Collection. I think audience members also found it fascinating to hear about the early stages of creating and shaping Caroline’s next show with the Wellcome. Feedback was a big thumbs-up.
We had a full house and lots of people stayed behind networking or simply chatting. We operated a simple donation system for the audience this time, which semed to work alright. Even so, I cannot see how we will be able to afford half-decent lights in the foreseeable future. Or much else for that matter.
Dominique Rey
Caroline Fisher will be discussing her curatorial projects at The Wellcome Trust tonight. I think Stephanie is in the space as we speak turning the heaters on. Meanwhile, I nipped along to the man in the Computer /Mac shop in the town square to sort out leads foor the projector this evening. So very useful to have that as a resource – it took 20 minutes maximum. Brillant. And sorry, it has to be another coffee related picture today.
There is a bit of information about caroline on our new but still elusive website:
http://www.queenofhungary.co.uk/Curatorcf.html
A lot of sweat over building the Project Space website. It wasn’t the actually making of the pages, as I have kept them very simple and just needed to put time in to remembering how to use Dreamweaver. It was the actual getting the thing live. Although I’ve done this before, I couldn’t remember the process and I still don’t understand the language. What do all those words mean?
www.queenofhungary.co.uk
Anyway, the site is up now, but almost invisible when searched for. Typically, this blog, however, is easy to find on a search.
I had a LOT of coffee to get through the process. This much ….
Dominique Rey
This is our next curator talk on the 16th of February. We met with Caroline a couple of weeks ago to talk through her ideas for this presentation and to chat about her journey from the medical world to curating shows at the Wellcome Collection. I’m hoping this is a useful approach to this organisational process.
The Queen of Hungary is delighted to present curator Caroline Fisher, a freelance curator and artist. Caroline’s career may be familiar to regional artists for her residencies at Bolwick Hall and curating at the Castle in Norwich. Most recently she co-curated the very well-received exhibition ‘High Society: mind-altering drugs in history and culture’ at the Wellcome Foundation, London.
Caroline Fisher is interested in making exhibitions which blur the boundaries between science and culture and between artistic disciplines. Her talk will encompass her switch from medicine to art, what drives her as a curator, her own artistic practise and her current project for the Wellcome on the intriguing subject of the human voice.
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/high-society.aspx
Donations: £3.00. To book a place please email [email protected].
Here are a couple of links to her High Society show there.
http://artsway-venice.tumblr.com/post/6069427669/i…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/04/well…
Dominique Rey
