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dear crumb list, i thought it would be a good idea to pick up on some of the ideas Ele wrote a few weeks back... as we at crumb continue to ease ourselves into summer with moments of self-reflection on what we do and why we do it (please take a minute to fill out our questionnaire on the site: www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb)! I've been wondering, in relation to the question of the differences between curating and organising (when it comes to symposia) if the same holds for the differences between curating and organising and managing residencies or production labs. I am about to embark on my first curatorial residency in collaboration with an artist in the production of a new work (at Isis Arts in Newcastle)... which feels as though it is going to be a very different process than either being a curator in residence working on a show -- minus having the artist(s) in residence with me (as I have done at the Banff Centre) -- and being a curator who manages artists in residence (sometimes minus the activity of curating the concrete exhibition output at the end). What seems the same in these cases is that my effort is going towards shaping the context in which the work of art or exhibition (the content) is produced and emerges. Yet I think this work is often seen as managerial, educational or interpretive more than as curatorial. Is that true of other curator's experiences also? As new media art seems to morph the role of the curator a great deal (more than other forms of art?) what sort of resources would be useful to you as curators if your activity is less focussed on the end product art exhibition and more on the interstitial stages of the work's development (both theoretically and physically)? sarah On 9 Jun 2004, at 10:54, Ele Carpenter wrote: <snip> > As an Independent Curator > working with an institution it's important to find the right staff who > can let things happed in the way you want. This may be easier working > with the Education Dept, than the Exhibitions Dept, but again it > depends > on the individuals and their understanding of the project. <snip> > I'd like to hear more about creating contexts for content production... > > Ele Carpenter