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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
based 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 2010
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