a bit of brainstorming to get some ideas down

Value of curating
Why isn’t curatorial practice taught in school
Its thought as something you do later on when you know some stuff know the system, know the values, audience, education buyers system
As someone said why aren’t they teaching engineering at schools that’s where the jobs are not in this art thing, which gets a job with that.

I’ve been reading in MAP (issue 6 summer 2006) about Duncan McLarens journeys round Scotland to find the value of contemporary art and interesting things about SAC report 04/05 and how much things were funded for a gallery in a flat in Glasgow called One Ton Prop which was set up to show work by young artists without funding, what’s that for the artists friends, art world to get to the next stage
There’s also abit about Mark Neville taking photos in Port Glasgow and the images are amazing and human and joyful, Christmas party ones in Town Hall, these aren’t planned they just happen, no one funds it, but its constructed and arranged for people to come to and let their hair down, with friends
Duncan McLaren welcomes correspondence duncan.mclaren@virgin.net

"The problem with the professional and the bureaucratic," Clifford explains, "is that they locate themselves in the so-called objective, in numbers, costs, putting a financial value on something. How do you value your grandmother? How do you value a field? You cannot value such things in bureaucratic mode." Sue Clifford Common Ground Guardian 09/12/07

What’s curating about, placing things together, arranging things, making connections, need to think about defining it,
Has it always existed since drawing began, its not just an art thing it happens through out life and work in all things we do
Placing things together, at home at work in sport at play in school at college in offices in nature gardening hobbies collecting shops radio stations
Curate = to draw

• Need to make list of areas to think and research about
• What is value
o Political
o Economic
o Social
o Environmental
o Cultural
o National
o Aesthetic
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• Want to map out all the projects and events and space that have existed in recent years to do with curating, things that people just do and it happens things that are planned and funded and thought about arrange managed things that are strategic in location, create public interest involvement enhance life things that are commercial selective elitist business
• Literature review
• Mapping of project context, what are the subject areas, who is involved, what are the outputs, how is it documented and discussed
• Redefine statement and details
• List of who could be interviewed
o Katrina Brown, Common Ground
o Francis McKee, CCA/GSA
o Angus Farquhar NVA
o Toby Webster, Modern Institute
o Susannah Beaumont Doggerfisher
o Pat Fisher, Talbot Rice
o Rebecca Gordon Nesbit
o Jenny Brownrigg, DJCA
o Paul Nesbit, Inverleith
o Keith Hartley, SNGMA
o Duncan Mclaren, writer
o Sorcha Dallas

Need to find the Scottish executive statement on cultural identity
Whats happening here, Scotland that doesn’t happen elsewhere
• Deveron Arts
• SSW
• Peacock Visual Arts
• Mount Stuart
• National Trust
• Projects in landscape
• Projects in cities
• Projects with particular demographic
• Scottish Heritage
• Public arts agencies
o PACE
o Art in partnership
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Who are the independent curating mavericks, the entrepreneurs, hucksters, fascilitators See
• Axis curators index
• Who else????