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Collection of Curators Heads
(Kit Hammond S.L.G.)
Photo credit Terry Watts
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Statement
The three house base live installations: ('Display', 'Still Live'
and 'Collecting Time: The Living and the Dead’) addressed the
central question of how to show the ephemeral, live experiences
that make up the quotidian within the fixed frame of the art institution.
How to preserve life, or rather the breath of ‘aliveness’?
There was a dialogue with museums re. the static nature of collections
and the inability/ability of museums and galleries to collect life,
live art and time; a hole in the ceiling (in ‘Collecting Time’)
facilitated, in a form of reverse collecting, a photographic collection
of visiting curators heads.
I am currently increasing the audience for and further highlighting
this work by developing new house projects that are partly or totally
presented within an art institutional context and looking at suitable
contexts for extending and displaying the collection of curator’s
heads.
Projects within a wider environment are concerned with looking
at sites and communities, shifting focus through displacement and
subversion of expectations and hierarchies.
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© Fran Cottell 2007
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