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Hi all it's the last day of March and CRUMB will be launching a new theme tomorrow so I just wanted to give everyone a last chance to chip into the discussion about lab/time-based residencies and how artists/ curators are creating situations for reflection on environmental issues and creating spaces for responding to those issues. There has been fruitful debate about the example of the exhibition/project at FACT, as well as, back in February, the SCANZ project in New Plymouth NZ, the exhibition for which closed the day before yesterday. I've clipped below the comments I found most useful from Heather's last reply, and am remembering other comments made earlier about the importance of facilitators, and giving the time and space necessary for partners to be able to listen to each other. To this I welcome you to add your knowledge and experiences to the list for what is necessary to 1. successfully weave people together (technological or otherwise)... [during] a time-limited residency in a specific environmental and geographic place; 2. manage the successful delivery of projects if the artist can only be onsite 8 days before the project launch or has to leave the day after, or you only get access to the presenting venue two days before the opening; 3. best respond to place when you are in a new place, with new people, seeking to work together in a limited time-period, mindful of existing relationships and histories and geographical constraints to create something meaningful and lasting Thanks Sarah On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:47, Heather Corcoran wrote: > (one key learning I have from this show is that those preparation > conversations are extremely difficult to have remotely, with > different time zones and different priorities - yet they are > absolutely key to this kind of residency-based exhibition). Things > like plans were sent in advance and discussed with the Eyebeam > fellows and staff - the mez idea (having a quiet work area separate > from the gallery) actually came from Eyebeam when I visited them > last summer. > A strength of media arts organisations like ours (and many others) > is that we are pushed to innovate in the delivery and curating of > exhibitions because of changing technologies and challenging art > forms, and I think that gives us a real bonus - that we are allowed > to be flexible and try things out and change things up. > I found it impossible to curate a lab-based hands-on exhibition > about sustainability without wanting to share the importance of > some of those kinds of extremely relevant, local, groups to this > debate and see them interact with our artist residents. So we've > invited some of them in to use the space if they wanted to and many > of them have taken up the offer because they have for whatever > reason - whether its a projector, free wifi, seating, tables, > workshop tools, foot traffic, visibility, institutional cred that > they can use to their advantage - found it useful.