Ian Brown's Curatorial Practice

Ian Brown presented a lecture on his own experiences on how best to prepare for an exhibition. I think preparation was the key here which urges me to begin the planning of the arrangement. While we have a month left before our exhibition, I reckon it'll creep up on us before we know it!

In a group meeting after the lecture, we each discussed the development of our own pieces so that be could begin to think of the requirements for each work. My work has now developed into a video piece and so ideally I want to be in the dark room, which the group agree with, but I'll have to look at sourcing a projector and perhaps an extension cable. The rest of the group seem quite certain on their own pieces and so it allowed us to think of an initial plan for the space.

We were thinking of using dividing walls to break up the gallery space but still need to find out whether this is possible or not. As well as coming to a final decision about whether we are going to use both gallery spaces, or just stick to the level four space upstairs. I feel like we should challenge ourselves with the space, especially as Anna mentioned it, but ultimately the group seems to feel as though we wouldn't be able to fill two separate spaces.

For our next meeting we've decided to look at the initial poster designs that me and Charlotte have come up with, look over the final version of the proposal that Jenna wrote up and feedback to the group on the artists that we researched following our meeting with Anna and Stephen. This means I need to look at the work of Marina Abramovic by then.

After the session I began to think about ways to get the viewer to interact better with the show. I designed some cards that could be used to enable the viewer to leave their 'confession' as well as being able to detach a business like card to take away with them. I'll have to discuss this in our next meeting on monday.