Dear all
I would like to pick up the threat running through the June discussion/theme
Open Source, Residencies and the Lab Model.
Parts of CRUMB are just returned from a great working/producing/presenting
environment at Eyebeam. Two weeks of the hybrid workshop interactivos?
culminated in an installation 'Double Take' that opened last Saturday, and
the frantic programming time seems to be replaced by working prototypes and
functional installations. {http://eyebeam.org/about/about.php?page=thisweek}
There is the issue of the state of the work, the moment of a model becoming
art. There is also the collapsing of the status as resident in a lab
situation, the collaborator whose role of an agent is ambiguous and shifting
during his collaboration, and the curatorial process that remains to some
degree fairly ‘hidden’ – does the curator need an exhibition to make visible
the processes she initiates? How does the open source model change our
understanding of curating practices (which are already subsumed in the
larger term of ‘cultural producer). But to ask quite provocatively: is the
curator position in an open source environment replaced by a coordinator of
the artists/residencies/workers? Or does everyone become a curator in the
sense of creating an interface to the public? And what public?
Is a residency always taking place within a lab, a space?
Is an online residency possible, and how?
What is the end of collaboration?
Any ideas and thought welcome!!! Experience from Eyebeamers??
Best
verina
CRUMB
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