Curating Presentation and Collective Meeting
Curating Pitch
In this week’s presentation, I received feedback from my tutor and classmates and refined my curatorial project. My tutor noted that the strengths of my proposal lie in calculating artist salaries and exhibition venue rental costs, while the weaknesses require addressing the exhibition’s visibility and transportation-related expenses.
I created the layout plan for my exhibition based on visual suggestions. The numbered items represent the artworks: 1 Concrete Bamboo, 2 Alness Memorial Geopark Sequence, 3 Intelligent Wilderness, 4 Cooped . Farmed . Displayed
I attended this weekly collective meeting at Summerhall In Vitro Gallery in response to the teacher’s feedback. Our collective is an art curation group named “No idea,” established during weeks 3 and 4. Below are images documenting our collective’s conceptual manifesto activity from week 4.
During the meeting, we discussed and calculated the appropriate exhibition duration, transportation costs for the installations, and expenses for lighting and display screens. Based on Zhiyu’s past experience, most exhibitions require three to five days for installation and one day for dismantling. This means I would need an additional four days to rent the venue, totaling 14 days for my 10-day exhibition. At £250 per day, the cost for Summerhall Science Gallery would be £3,500. Artist fees remain unchanged: £1,796.00 (Five Days, Five Years Artist) + £179.60 (Half-Day Five-Year Artist) + £117.20 (Half-day newly graduated artist) + £117.20 (Half-day newly graduated artist) = £2,210.00.
Based on this, my fellow students and I at the collective discussed that the installation could be transported by artist Yuhang Liu, whom I would compensate with five days’ worth of wages. I will cover his £1,500 plane ticket. I want him to use the video equipment and screens rented from ECA during the exhibition preparation to record artist interviews—one reason for his presence. We’ve already decided to rent the exhibition lighting and video screens from ECA.Therefore, the current cost I have calculated is £7,210. I will continue to discuss and calculate other expenses with my colleagues at the collective.
