Weekly Focus
The focus of this week was to establish the idea of the collective and to use the group as a way to share our initial ideas about a curated project. For us, a collective should be made of equal collaboration where individuals maintain their independence whilst still working together. There should be regular communication within the community system, and being open to ideas enables mutual growth of the individuals’ ideas. These are common attributes that, although discussed together, I feel like can all also be found in The Bernadette Corporation (see first post)Talking about the initial thoughts of our project allowed us to all to see where people’s interests lay, and from that we can share ideas about inspiration and exhibitions we have seen.
Thoughts
My initial thoughts are to make some form of sharing event, thinking about what was so successful from the use of lecture to discuss Women in Revolt (see previous post) and how being able to communicate about the exhibition heightened my experience of seeing it. I think conversation will therefore be either the subject of my curation, or how the event comes to be. This lends itself to return to the idea of postal art, a collaborative and inclusive form of having a conversation. In itself this reminds me of Jacques Derrida’s discussion of the postcard, the journey it takes and how work is transformed by the event of reading it. I know I want there to be physical work, perhaps printed or written, but accessible in a way where there is an event surrounding it. This encourages me to discover spaces beyond the white cube where perhaps these conversations are happening more freely such as the print room, where the public are invited into a space of creation.
Derrida, J. (1987) The post card : from Socrates to Freud and beyond. Chicago ; University of Chicago Press.
