September 24th 2007

Project Introduction and allocation of groups with in the session.

The Brief:
Around & About - Collaborative Live Project

Our first brief to be worked on is a collaborative LIVE project called ‘Out & About’.
It’s a project to be held in Birmingham city. We have to organise, fund, advertise and curate an off-site exhibition or event, within a time scale of 10 weeks.
We can use as many or as few artworks/ artists as we like. We can commission new work from artists or create our own.
We can use any space within an agreed reception area and we must disseminate the project to a wider audience than our comfortable existing MA group.
Introduction to Curatorial Practice: Assessment Requirements.

What you must produce for assessment:

Completed collaborative live project

3000 word evaluation that:
- Analyses your role within the project management
- Critically evaluates the project as a whole, from practical, historical, ideological and
theoretical viewpoints.
- Gives a rationale for choice of location and artist/s
- Demonstrates evidence of your knowledge of issues and context

Supporting material generated during the project. This must include: organised and clearly presented individual research & planning notes; photographic documentation of final show; press release and other marketing materials (poster, preview invites etc)

Context and History:
The artist/artists that you have chosen to work with will be dealing with specific themes or issues in their work. You need to show:

That you have researched why the artist is preoccupied with them and the reasons behind the strategies they have developed to represent them.
An understanding of why these themes and issues have a purchase in contemporary culture and how they are relevant to the context in which you have decided to show the work.

The group worked on initial research and idea generation. Group pays attention to individual skills and contacts as a consideration. Enabling us to gauge strengths within the group.